Posted on 10/04/2010 8:27:28 PM PDT by SmithL
Two new polls Monday showed Democrat Jerry Brown leading Republican Meg Whitman in the race for governor, but the modest point spread indicates it will likely remain a tight contest to the finish.
The Rasmussen and SurveyUSA polls were the first taken since celebrity Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred revealed last week that Whitman had employed an illegal immigrant housekeeper for nine years -- a story that has dominated the campaign ever since.
The polls were released on a day when KGO-AM in San Francisco announced that a radio debate between Whitman and Brown scheduled for today had been canceled. Exactly why remains a bit of a mystery.
The Rasmussen poll of 750 likely voters showed 49 percent favored Brown, while 44 percent favored Whitman. In a similar survey two weeks ago, Rasmussen found the two candidates in a statistical dead heat -- Brown at 47 percent, Whitman at 46 percent
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We Californians are so f’n stupid.
Or are memories so short that we don’t remember Brown’s first go around as Governor?
Glad I’m moving.
Would you want that result for your state? Wouldn't you rather do everything possible to prevent a catastrophic failure? California has a better chance of turning things around with Whitman at the helm.
The number one Meg hater is back.
Hey .how is it going ?????
Welcome back to another Meg Whitman trashing session.
I realize that you will contact the Admin person if your OUTED TOO Quickly..
Let the Meg Whitman trashing session BEGIN !!!!
“Its a grand idea to let MOONBEAM WIN.”
I never said that. I said I am ambivalent. You can look that word up in the dictionary.
I do not think either candidate will make a nickels worth
of change in that cesspool of a state.
I would rather it sink with Brown there, then on Whitman’s watch.
A RINO is still a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Ask Ahhhnold.
If this were a US congressional position, I would feel differently, and give wholehearted support to Whitman.
As a native Californian, a life-long conservative who has never, ever missed an election, and a veteran who believes that the country (and each state) is worth defending, I don't think California deserves a death spiral into financial oblivion.
We deserve truthful candidates and honest elections with votes cast and tallied by U.S. citizens. Certified-whacko-Jerrry Brown could never win a completely fair election.
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Here is a list:
Whitman can do the same thing. It works.
Exactly.
“As a native Californian,”
Well, I do not want to be misinterpreted.
I do love the PHYSICAL California.
I have twin brothers that have spent 50 years of their adult life in, of all places, San Francisco, and I always enjoyed my visits there.
From a political standpoint, however, the state stinks, and has for quite some time, and it does seem to attract the lowest of the low for citizens.
It is sad that you can not have a true Republican as governor.
In reality I do admit that I would naturally
choose Whitman over moonbeam, but I think she is a classic
RINO, and we see where they have gotten us.
We are faced with Jerry Brown going for a 3rd term -- illegally -- in a state the limits governors, today, to no more than 2 terms. That should make him ineligible to run for governor. Have laws no meaning today?
Zip it.
And quit posting lies.
Brown is ineligible.
Be the first on your block to stand up to a corrupt CA Attorney General:
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 5 EXECUTIVE
SEC. 2. The Governor shall be elected every fourth year at the same time and places as members of the Assembly and hold office from the Monday after January 1 following the election until a successor qualifies. The Governor shall be an elector who has been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for 5 years immediately preceding the Governor's election. The Governor may not hold other public office. No Governor may serve more than 2 terms.
They ‘win’ because so called conservatives can’t be bothered to go to the polls, they mail in their ballots. Mail in ballots are a vote fraud machine.
That the same mentalitiy that earned you Obama, loser.
Cannot believe that Brown is going to win this!
That Law doesn’t include him, it only pertains to those who were in office after 1990.
I'm tired of the "hold your nose and vote" BS.
I voted for McCain. What would that have gotten me? Amnesty in slices? Probably. Social Security reform? Yeah, right. Tax cuts? Yeah he was going to get right on that. Would McCain have vetoed health care? I don’t think so. It might not be as bad but we’d have many of the same terrible components of Obamacare and we wouldn’t have the backlash we have now and people would still be blaming Bush. The economy would be Bush/McCain and we would be getting hammered for the same 9.6% unemployment.
You're on fantasy island if you think either of those two nitwits is going to fix California. Electing Whitman is like trying to fix GM without blowing up the union contracts and firing the current management and replacing them with someone who can run a car company.
Pick your poison - a shot to the head or death by a thousand cuts. Either way with Whitman or Brown California's goose is cooked only thing left is who gets the blame.
California to me is facing Titanic-level failure and all Whitman will do is make sure the dance band has its instruments tuned and that the chairs are aligned. Every chance she had to act like Governor Christie and face the problem head-on she ran for cover.
Personally I don't think Whitman has what it takes to fix California and I am not sure anyone can overcome the state legislature and the grievance groups that have a death-grip on that state.
You’re right, sorry. It still is unfair, though.
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