You know, when I start to see the usual suspects come out of the woodwork for a candidate, I can almost predict what’s going to happen.
This time – they went past Scozzafava and endorsed someone with Scozzafava’s values who tried to (and in many cases did) purchase the loyalty of the Party of whom she is barely a member.
I’m sorry – I am glad I stuck with Steve, and I keep getting reminded of it. Six weeks ago, people were calling on Steve to suspend his campaign or not file… now, it is time for Whitman to suspend her campaign for the good of California. Jerry Brown will shred Whitman to pieces.
1. Tom McClintock is going to open a can of B.T.A. on the opponent of said candidate. Watch here to see Tom McClintock call Meg Whitman the third term of Arnold.
Now that Meg Whitman’s store-bought 50 point lead has evaporated… Goldman Sachs and their “Vulture Funds” are center stage. Also center stage is Meg Whitman’s participation in Stock-Spinning.
You see – Whitman’s fortune is almost 100% tied up in Goldman Sachs (except for the $300K she gave the Environmental Defense Fund)… and Goldman Sachs is front-and-center as they raked in billions from people’s misfortune in this depression we are in. That brings us to —
2. Steve Poizner just leveled the playing field on Meg Whitman. Voters will now get to see how Whitman’s fortune is an albatross and how she supported bank bailouts while Sachs — you know the rest…
I should have titled this Welcome to the Jungle Part 3 – Whitman gets “Sached”, but that might have been too nuanced.
Whitman Supports Taxpayer Funded Abortion
Whitman Supports Late-Term Abortion
Whitman Opposes Across-the-board-tax-cuts
Whitman supports open borders
So why are Ed Royce/ Kevin McCarthy Et Al supporting her? If it is for her deep pockets – arrgh, that money is now radioactive!
In addition to the 300K she donated to the environmental defense fund – Meg Whitman is a huge fan of Van Jones.
Click here to read the Orange Juice Post on the Poll.
Adam Problosky is a pollster from Southern California who has been doing polls for several years.
The poll was touted by the Chuck DeVore for US Senate Campaign as a sign of strength for Chuck. It showed Campbell at 31, Carly Fiorina at 17 and Chuck DeVore at 14.
There is something called a sample when you do a poll.
When polling on a primary – you generally want to talk to people of the party in question. When polling – you typically ask likely voters.
OOPS – out of 751 Voters surveyed, only 272 Republicans.
All were newly registered voters in 2008/2009 – and are therefore not considered likely to vote in 2010.
Meg Whitman better not pay attention either…
Epic Fail.
Yikes! No wonder the change in strategy by Meg Whitman.
Over the Transom:
TO: Supporters
FROM: Jim Brulte, Poizner Campaign Chair
RE: Poizner Closing The Gap On Whitman
DATE: April 23, 2010
You Heard It Here First
We are in the final stretch of the campaign and the polls are showing exactly what our campaign predicted.
We have said all along that as the voters begin to focus on the two candidates for Governor, the mile-wide and inch-deep support for Meg Whitman will begin to collapse and support for Conservative Republican Steve Poizner will begin to grow. That is exactly what we see happening.
You will recall the Whitman campaign recently touting public polls that showed Meg with a 49 point lead over Steve Poizner, but they have remained uncharacteristically silent about the recent SurveyUSA poll which shows that her lead has been slashed by more than 50%.
The latest SurveyUSA public poll shows Meg Whitman’s lead down to 22 points, while other private polls conducted throughout California show the race even closer.
In reacting to the most recent Capitol Weekly poll, conducted over a week ago, pollster Ben Tulchin says the results show real trouble for Meg Whitman. Tulchin says that “[Whitman’s] ahead, but compared to other polling that’s out there, her numbers have dropped,” and that “she’s spent a lot of money and she’s under 50 percent.”
What We Expect Next
The Poizner campaign’s next prediction is that we will soon hear a chorus of Whitman spinners and campaign operatives proclaiming that they have always known the race would tighten, but that there is not enough time for Poizner to close the gap.
But history shows that there is more than enough time to close the gap and take the lead. As Californians, we’ve seen this scenario before.
In the 2002 Republican gubernatorial primary, Moderate Richard Riordan led Conservative Republican Bill Simon by more than 30 points with a little more than a month to go in the primary. In the last month, Simon overcame that deficit and ending up beating Riordan by 18 points. It happened then, and we will see the same results in this primary.
This race is just beginning and it will be an exciting finish.
Let’s get to work!
It will be interesting to see if history repeats itself.
IT’s under 20 folks and Whitman is going to have to liquidate some more hedge funds from ethically-challenged Goldman-Sachs to buy more support.
Smashmouth politics 101.
This jewel came in from an Industry publication called the Worker’s Comp Executive.
Poizner’s Momentum Builds – Whitman’s Waters Troubled
The investigation by the Federal Government into Goldman Sachs is expected to negatively impact Meg Whitman, billionaire candidate for California governor, say a host of political analysts. The campaign of her opponent in the primary, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, has been hacking away at her lead.
The investigation stems from activities that happened on her watch. Whitman was a member of the Board of Directors at Goldman until a controversy drove her resignation. The controversy revolved around how she received shares in initial public offerings. She was later fined for her activities.
The scandal also comes close to Attorney General Jerry Brown, the Democratic candidate. Mr. Brown’s sister, Kathleen, is currently a Sachs executive.
Whitman, sometimes dubbed “eMeg” or “nutMeg,” has a compelling but constantly shrinking lead as the result of spending over $46 million in advertising- more than any candidate in state history. But polling shows increasing momentum for insurance commissioner Steve Poizner who has cut her lead in half in recent weeks even though he is spending far less.
Political pundits say she will be impacted by negative publicity from the Goldman Sachs fraud case because her pitch has been that the financially impacted state needs to “be run like a business.” She says her history as CEO of eBay is the reason that she can turn the state around.
Whitman will suffer damage from the scandal, say experts. How much depends upon what unfolds in the press, and how a very trapped Whitman deals with it. Whitman is not noted for transparency nor is she well liked by the media.
“Voters have a very legitimate question to ask of Whitman, which will be difficult for her to answer,” Barbara O’Connor, director of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media at Sacramento State University told the Christian Science Monitor. “On the one hand, she needs to distance herself from the scandal; on the other hand, it happened on her watch. Given her campaign strategy, how can she tell voters she didn’t know what was going on?”
Poizner, in recent weeks has narrowed her lead from 40 to 20 points and could exploit the Goldman Sachs scandal for the June primary. Whether he has enough time to close the gap will make for an interesting campaign, agree most analysts.
Interesting – I heard a Meg Whitman Radio Spot on local conservative talk radio attacking Steve Poizner for supporting Taxpayer-funded abortion.
Funny. Meg is campaigning on that stance, she must think Voters are dumb.
Maybe not so much anymore – she goes after Steve for the usual (Prop 39 and the check to Gore in 2000) and for raising the Department of Insurance’s Budget 14% in this latest TV Spot.
Problem. Whitman supported Al Gore as well. (And Barbara Boxer)
Problem.
The department of insurance cut fees 15% two years ago and I got an email this week that the fees are being reduced another 6%. Note – the media gave it almost no coverage – suggesting that they are either supporting Whitman or decided that the Weather was bigger news.
The LA Times Blog covered the new Whitman political ad:
Meg Whitman Trains Fire On Steve Poizner As Gop Primary Battle Intensifies
By AnthonyYork
Los Angeles Times’ PolitiCal Blog
April 16, 2010; 9:23amLooks like Meg Whitman has decided she has a primary race to run after all.
After weeks of introducing herself to voters and trying as much as possible to engage Democrat Jerry Brown directly, the Whitman campaign has launched a new 30-second ad entirely directed at Steve Poizner.
Poizner, the Republican state insurance commissioner, trails Whitman by wide margins in public opinion polls. But he has millions of dollars to spend on the race, and his recent ads have gone after Whitman, accusing her of being nothing more than a continuation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Whitman’s new ad calls Poizner “desperate, dishonest, and way more liberal that he says he is.”
Interesting. Arnold in a Skirt calling someone liberal – I can’t drink enough to comprehend that one…