Posted on 10/29/2010 8:21:00 AM PDT by Palmetto Patriot
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.
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I live in NJ and if Corslime got re-elected I was ready to move....Honestly, I was! Californians, you may want to adopt that same mindset.
The Field poll has Brown up by 10. They basically say the race is over. This is a left leaning group.
I’ll second that. I believe this race is tied right now. Just like the pollsters could not measure the anger in New Jersey, they can not measure it in CA. The best pollster was off by 3 for Christie probably the same in the west.
It will be real interesting to see who is closer this year, Ras or the Field Poll. I know the Field Poll is not reliable and tilts left, but this year the difference is startling. Field has Boxer +8 and Brown + 10. Ras has Boxer +3 and Brown +4. Should be an interesting evening.
Winning this race is going to be like winning a contest where the prize is a year’s supply of dog turds. California is a financial mess.
I certainly think this poll is much more reasonable than a lot of the phony push polls being released by Field and the LA Times.
I find it hard to believe that politicians like Jerry Brown and Boxer remain popular even in very blue CA.
This morning I got an email from the Whitman camp. Their internal polling shows the race dead even and Whitman up among those who already voted.
I’m not giving up on this one. BTW folks—I live in an EXTREMELY Left wing neighborhood in northeast LA—One of the most Left-wing neighborhoods you could possibly imagine. There are two Meg Whitman yard signs up in my neighborhood—and NO yeard signs up for any Democrats. This time two years ago I counted five BHO yard signs on my street alone.
Here’s another thing. Since Labor Day, I have counted exactly one Boxer bumpersticker and two Brown bumperstickers. This time two years ago it seemed as though every other car had a BHO bumpersticker. I live in the heart of Democrat LA, their biggest stronghold in CA. You would not even know there was an election going on looking at yard signs and bumperstickers. Far more houses have Halloween decorations. I kid you not. I live here. There is not an ounce of enthusiasm for the Dems that I can detect.
Keep up the faith and be of good cheer!
But the pollsters DID measure the anger in NJ. Several had Christie up by 1 or 2, and he ended up winning by what? 4 I think.
The problem in California is that Whitman is trailing in all polls by more than just a couple points. Barring a late surge, this means she will probably lose.
Meg needs a very strong weekend of campaigning. We need Meg to do well not just because we want her to become the next Governor, but because we don't want any weakness on our ticket this year because it could drag down Fiorina's chances of beating the loathsome Barbara Boxer.
An articulate Conservative should be able to beat Brown by 20 points, even in California. That Whitman couldn’t, says more about her than I can.
His record is out there.
The state has been under a Democrat controlled Legislature for the last 50 years (yes, I know about the 1.5 years when we had a leftist Republican as speaker during that period), and yet our brain trusts don’t point to that and the state’s condition to make hay of it.
How can you spend $144 million and leave such a fowl taste in folks mouths that they don’t want you?
Has anyone bothered to ask Californians if they are better off today than they were ten years ago? If they aren’t, and the Democrats have been in control, what’s the alternative?
Schwarzenegger has been a rubber stamp governor. It’s time for some real Conservative representation in the state.
Reminds me of the slogan when Brown ran a long time ago
...”If it’s Brown flush it down.”
The SF Chronicle and SJ Mercury News make it sound like Brown and Boxer have already won. They want the Republican voters to be dispirited and stay home. I am sure they are primarily sampling the heavily-populated coastal areas that lean left. The Central Valley, Inland Empire, and counties North of Marin all lean right. This is where most of the anger is too, places where unemployment is 20%+. The delta smelt issue is huge in the Central Valley and a lot of people there hate Barbara Boxer. I saw Meg Whitman was just in Riverside County, where unemployment is very high as well. I’m hoping it rains all over the state and the anger propels the Republicans and Independents to head to the polls no matter what.
I suspect they are gonna elect Brown and present America with it’s greatest all-time teachable moment
Brown’s hadlers are keeping him away from public for the next few days he is making some real stupid statements.
Yes, and for the reasons you mentioned. The Legislature is hopelessly screwed up.
When Schwarzenegger was newly elected, he was incredibly popular. If he had chose to take the proper issues to the public, I don’t think the Legislature could have stood up to him without being destroyed in their home districts.
He took a pass.
Even if Whitman were solid, and I don’t think she is, the task before her would be formidable.
The woman was top dog at a company that should have skyrocketed with almost any mediocre person at the helm. The internet needed an auction type product, and her staff handed her a windfall. It wasn’t her expertise that made E-Bay zoom. I’m not going to say none of it was her doing, but basically all she had to do was get out of the way and let it happen.
Her biggest problem was probably growing pains.
It’s going to be a real shock to her system to have someone else with co-equal power objecting to her every move. She has no experience with that. She can’t tell a lackey to shut up or else. She can’t unilaterally issue an edict.
She won’t have to answer to a board for four years. That would be the only plus IMO.
A Republican governor will just be the scapegoat.
California really needs to be split into two states. Marxifornia and Califreeland.
Sizing up the area north of Austin and also Carson City area.
You can’t teach lefties. I thought it would be a teachable moment when they elected Gray Davis. The same people that elected him and then recalled him are making the same mistake.
Even if this state goes bankrupt, the voters of San Francisco and LA who control the direction of the entire state will still vote the same.
They expect a different result doing the same thing... insane.
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