- Senator Dianne Feinstein
Posted on 07/28/2008 7:53:13 AM PDT by SmithL
State Attorney General Jerry Brown leads San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other Democrats making noises about running for governor in 2010 - but if Sen. Dianne Feinstein were to jump into the pool, she would swamp them all, a new poll shows.
On the Republican side, former Rep. Tom Campbell has a 2-1 edge over other possible candidates - ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and ex-eBay chief Meg Whitman.
Although voters don't seem to know any of them very well.
According to the statewide poll by JMM Research of Sacramento, Brown - himself a former governor looking for a repeat performance - would be the top choice of 31 percent of the registered Democrats surveyed if the primary were held today.
Newsom gets 19 percent. Villaraigosa has 12 percent, while Lt. Gov. John Garamendi and state schools chief Jack O'Connell both clock in with 9 percent.
But if you add Feinstein to the mix - and take out Newsom, Villaraigosa and O'Connell, figuring they might bow out if she jumps in - Brown drops to 24 percent, and the state's senior senator grabs 50 percent.
Feinstein, who has seen the poll numbers, declined to comment on either the poll or her possible candidacy.
The survey also had some interesting insights into how the non-Feinstein Democrats are faring.
Brown, for example, is stronger in the north than in the south. And he's most popular among voters over 40.
The downside: Although Brown has a favorable rating of 41 percent among all voters polled, he has a fairly high unfavorable rating of 32 percent.
A favorable-to-unfavorable ratio of less than 2-1 is generally considered weak, pollster Jim Moore said.
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- Senator Dianne Feinstein
(rolling eyes)
What is she - 76? Anything to get her out of the Senate, I like.
As long as it gets her out of the Senate, she’ll only be dangerous to Californians....that might not be so bad.
Gov’s are held accountable, Sen’s are not, she would never give up here cushy job.
Judging from the list of potential candidates one thing is clear...whoever wins, we lose.
Isn’t this rich? The left tells us McCain is too old to be president. Feinstein is five years older yet according to the Left Coasters she’d make a terrific governor.
Ted Kennedy runs away from his record.
Jerry Brown plays his records on the stereo.
Campaign slogans from the 1980 election when Brown was dating Linda Ronstadt. Wow, we Californians are in a heap ‘o trouble. We need to purge the voter rolls of all the illegals and then California might be able to get a sane leader.
I think that the mass of uninformed CA people should treat themselves extravagantly and return Jerry Brown to the governorship. The theme could be “Back to 1982!”
People are just dumb enought to go for this too. Finklestien has the money to buy the governorship and she probably would. Her husband is one of the major contractors in Iraq but you don’t hear about that one.
Jerry Brown has already been Governor:
Don’t the term limit provisions apply to him?
I need clarification,please.
What a joke! Is being a past Democrat, or supporting them, a new prerequisite for the CA GOP?
People are just dumb enought to go for this too. Finklestien has the money to buy the governorship and she probably would. Her husband is one of the major contractors in Iraq but you don’t hear about that one.”
He also has major financial interests in China.
I wonder if Dianne’s guns are made in China??? She and her bodyguards have 3 of the 7 gun permits for San Francisco.
Term Limits were passed after he was Governor. He gets a fresh slate.
Good God, as if California wasn't sliding into the cesspool fast enough.
I didn't move out of there a moment too soon.............
Does CA have a death wish? Maybe the state should be put on a suicide watch.
So? Would Campbell be any better?
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