Posted on 05/11/2010 11:52:09 AM PDT by FTJM
For a long time, Meg Whitman rode high in the polls in her effort to win the Republican nomination in California for Governor. Over the last month, her position has suddenly eroded, according to a new Survey USA poll, and now she finds herself in a dead heat with insurance commissioner Steve Poizner. Now the former eBay CEO has to fight hard to hold onto a nomination that most people assumed she would win, with the primary just around the corner:
Not long ago Meg Whitman had such a huge lead 50 points over Steve Poizner for the GOP nomination for governor, many folks thought the race was over and started sizing up her chances against the Democrats Jerry Brown.
When she came in to talk to our Editorial Board last week, Whitman brushed off news that some polls showed Poizner had closed the gap to about 10 points. Still 10 points isnt anything to scoff at, especially with only a little more than a month before the polls open.
Well, this week ABCs SurveyUSA poll shows that Poizner is now 2 points behind her 39 percent to 37 percent.
The poll itself shows Poizner advancing on all fronts. He only trails Whitman by seven points among women, perhaps the most eye-opening result of all. He wins voters under the age of 50, and wins Hispanic voters as well. Poizner also edges Whitman among those voters who self-identify as conservatives, 41/38.
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Arnold in a skirt needs to be defeated.
Do they really mean "wins Hispanic voters", or do they mean "wins Hispanic Republican voters"?
Hard to believe that an R could win the H vote outright.
She’s not “friends” with Palin too is she?
Indeed. However, I have no illusions regarding the sincerity of Steve Poizner's newly found Conservative stances....
So what do FReepers think of Poizner?
Awww... Gee Meg, ya’ couldn’t buy the nomination?
Conservatives here aren’t buying your crap wagon, honey.
Me neither. At least he’s pretending.
I think Congressman Tom McClintock’s excellent commercials on behalf of Steve Poizner have helped dramatically. I wish McClintock was running. He makes a much better case than the candidate himself who is rather uninspiring.
I dont know much about Poizner
is he an improvement over Meg or what? personally as long as any R defeats Moonbeam that is good enough for me
They’re both cut out of the same cloth, according to ads, one supported Boxer, the other supported Gore, oh great choices we have there, they should have run for the dem nomination.
Whitman is against AZ law and is a RINO.
He’s liberal, but not as liberal as Meg.
Talk about damning with faint praise. But that may be the best CA can do.
I never thought it would happen, but it’s looking like it very well may.
Hey! That’s Fiorina, too...;-)
RINOs and RATs can crawl back into the sewers from whence they came.
I hear ya...
Tom McClintock is a good guy. If he is backing Poinzer then he must be decent.
i think you're right...
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