Posted on 10/29/2010 7:05:23 AM PDT by sunmars
With only a few days until Election Day, Democrat Jerry Brown holds a slightly smaller lead over Republican Meg Whitman in California’s gubernatorial race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Brown picking up 49% support, while Whitman draws the vote from 45%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are still undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
These numbers move the race from Leans Democrat back to a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Gubernatorial Scorecard.
Last week, Brown held a 48% to 42% edge over Whitman. Support for Brown, a longtime Democratic figure in the state who previously served as governor from 1975 to 1983, has steadily risen from 40% in late August. Backing for Whitman, a former CEO of eBay, has fallen slightly from a high of 48% in the same period.
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Boxer, who is seeking a fourth six-year term, now earns 49% support to Fiorina’s 46%. Two percent (2%) prefer another candidate, and three percent (3%) remain undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The race remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings as it has for weeks.
neither Boxer or Brown have pulled away like SOME pollsters would have you believe.
If CA puts “Moonbeam” back in the Gov. chair and Boxer back in the Senate, they will deserve everything they will get and if they think it’s bad now, just stick around.
However, this is probably Rasmussens last California poll and the fact neither of those 2 bozo’s can clear 50% is a milestone in my eyes.
If we can push a bit more, depress Dem turnout on Tuesday, we will take California.
I think the enthusiasm gap will give us both these races.
I think it might get us Fiorina, but I can see Whitman losing. She’s represents the RINO status quo, which sucks. Jerry Brown is worse, but he’s different than what’s there now. Schwarzenegger has been an epic failure and electing a female version of him isn’t going to help anything.
The ballot measures make California so dysfunctional that nobody can run the place anyway.
Repeat my post from yesterday....
the pollsters now have to be truthful about these races, their credibility is now on the line.
(Notice DE is suddenly closer !)
“Schwarzenegger has been an epic failure and electing a female version of him isn’t going to help anything.”
This was my concern when Schwarzenegger ran in the first place. CA was going into the toilet because of an insanely leftist legislature. No governor could do anything to alter that much one way or the other.
By having an R governor, the responsibility for the mess was spread out. Electing Arnold prevented 2010 from being a redefining election in CA. And it didn’t much improve things in the meantime. CA would have been better off letting Grey Davis ride the ship of state down.
My guess is that anyone who would vote for ex-Gov Moonbeam is either too stupid or too young to remember his first go-round.
I agree with your comments and I voted for Schwarzenegger. I didn’t particularly like doing it, but Gray Davis was also an epic failure, and I didn’t want him or Cruz Bustamante anywhere near a position of power in the state.
It would have been better to leave Davis in office. It would have been better to let Cruz out himself for what he was, so that one of the two of them could be blamed for what took place. As it is, the California Legislature had cover from 2003 to 2010. They continued to spend like drunken sailors and our illustrious governor wanna-be sat there like a rear window bobble-head with his head going up and down to almost every idea they had.
Am I convinced that Whitman is a good idea? Hell no. Let the Left take the credit for what they are doing. Let them have the whole ball of wax. And as it melts down, we can watch them destroy the Democrat party in the state, like Obama is destroying it nationally.
I was wrong in 2003. There are worse things than a (D) holding power and proving who they really are.
As for Meg, gag me with a pitchfork. She has outspent Brown three to one, and still can’t get her act together enough to best a man that has been proven to be a life-long idiot. So much for her leadership capabilities.
Yep, I was just hearing a poll showed Brown with a 13 point lead and hearing news talking heads say this race is over.
Well, cliche is true, that the only poll that counts is the one on election day. And, we want free and fair vote counting procedures.
It’s disturbing to hear some automated voting machines in Nevada were defaulting to Harry Reid, so if people aren’t careful, they could vote for Harry without intending to. These automated voting machines were supposed to save us from another Florida 2000, but, may cause more mischief.
There could be various Bush/Gore or Al Franken/Norm Coleman circus style recounts around the country. Stay tuned. Somebody once said that if the vote count on election night isn’t close, then they can’t cheat, and they were right. Any close vote on election night will be challenged if the Democrat is on the losing end, and then they will go into court and push for endless recounts until a recount and previously hidden bags of ballots show up to be counted to give a Democrat a victory.
Amen, FRiend. Here in the Citadel, we’re champing at the bit. Both races, particulary the Senate, are VERY doable.
I wonder why she hasn’t used the statement of Brown saying he never had a plan back when? I thought that would make a good ad.
I’m not voting for Whitman, but Fiorina is running strong pro life ads on the radio, I am voting for her, and I like this stance that she is taking.
I didn’t want to say it, because I didn’t want to deal with the whiny Republicrat supporters trying to berate everyone into supporting Whitman, but if I were in CA, I’d do the same.
I normally am against throwing away votes, but I was having trouble bringing myself to vote for her after what I learned during the primary, and last night I got motivated to take a fresh look at her and finally make a decision.
I decided that I can’t vote for her, and I am having to bite my tongue not to start anti-Whitman threads.
After what I saw, I couldn’t care less what her supporters want to say to me.
Here is the thread from last night where I finally got off the fence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2616709/posts?page=49#49
I don’t see why anyone here would support that. $160+ million and the only issues she takes a stand on are anti-conservative.
I’m still conflicted about whether we should post some anti-Whitman threads, normally my way would be to try to stop them in the primary, but then leave them alone if they win the nomination, but Whitman is so disgusting and vile, that I find it difficult not to attack her and remind people of some of the truth about her.
After this election, we'll have open primaries where candidates won't even have a party label. What then? We shouldn't state our honest opinion if it disagrees with the coronated candidate? Screw that!
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