[SmithL]

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

the California governor's race is the closest it's been this near the election in two decades

You know, if I'd had to put up with two decades of campaign adds from Whitman and Brown, I wouldn't like them either.

[WebFocus]

Whitman and Fiorina will rise and fall together. One will carry the coattails of the other.

Most voters in my experience seldom go to the exercise of pulling levers one by one ( e.g., I’ll vote for Whitman but not Fiorina but Boxer ).

The majority simply pulls the lever for the “R” or the “D”.

Like it or not, Whitman AND Fiorina are practically a package deal in California.

[SmithL]

And, from the SF Chronicle"

Whitman closes gender gap with Dems

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has nearly erased Democrats' historic "gender gap" advantage with women voters in California, a new Field Poll shows, but she remains tied with state Attorney General Jerry Brown despite her record-shattering $119 million in personal spending.

. . .

With female voters evenly divided between the two candidates, at 41 percent each, Whitman is "negating the Democratic advantage among female voters, who have voted for Democrats by double-digit margins over the last 20 years," DiCamillo said. "A female Republican is making it an even race; there's no gender gap at all."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/22/MNL51FHUM8.DTL&tsp=1

[Prokopton]

The poll was conducted Sept. 14-21 via telephone, in English and Spanish, among 599 Californians deemed likely to vote in the Nov. 2 election...

Don't you have to be a U.S. citizen to vote, and don't you have to know how to speak English to become a U.S. citizen?

[CarWashMan]

Brown and Boxer will win if it is close. The unions and Hispanic grievance groups will see to that. The dead, homeless, and mentally disabled will be voting in record numbers. And surprise, surprise they will vote for the Dems.

[bwc2221]

If Whitman loses, it will be an incredibly costly loss for her. Meg has dumped $120 million of her own money into the race.

[wac3rd]

Brown is fueled by fat union (read: taxpayer) cash, Soros and every far Left group known to mankind to keep Statist-Open Border power. Under Moonbeam, CA will fail. Not a joke, it will declare bankruptcy.