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We can argue all day as to whether they were “the best” candidates, but they were very good Republican candidates nonetheless.

Based on their campaigns and their platforms, I would compare Meg to Arnold and Carly to McCain.

Do you consider Arnold and McCain good Republicans?

IMO, Carly lost because of 2 events - the Independents broke for the social liberal - Boxer. The Choice issue. This is the only state where that happened. Many democrats in the Bay Area would have gone for Carly, but no self-respecting liberal/democrat will vote for an anti-abortion candidate even if given the choice of another 6 years of Boxer.

When Meg had the illegal alien problem, the Mexican-American community in L.A. broke for Brown 2:1 and came out in larger numbers than expected. Then, they just voted straight democrat ticket.

All you heard on the radio was (1) Carly sent 30K jobs overseas and (2) When people called in, every story was about how they or someone they knew who worked at H.P. hated her guts. I suspect many of those were seminar callers from the CTA or SEIU who called in with those talking points.

NO one cared a whit about the DREAM act or DADT, except a very small percentage of the voters.

Jobs were the main issue, but when she was painted as someone who shipped jobs off-shore and couldn't mount a decent defense - like Apple, Cisco, etc, sends their work overseas - that didn't help.