Brown Surges Against Whitman in California Governor Race

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Brown surges against Whitman in California governor race

By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES | Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:07 pm EDT
(Reuters) - Democrat Jerry Brown has more than doubled his lead over Republican rival Meg Whitman in the California governor's race, gaining support from Latino voters after an illegal immigration furor over the former eBay chief's ex-housekeeper.

A Los Angeles Times/USC poll on Sunday gave Brown, the state's attorney general who first served as California governor from 1975 to 1983, a 13 point lead over Whitman. Brown has 52 percent support, compared to 39 percent for Whitman.

In the same poll a month ago, Brown had a five point overall lead over Whitman. Sunday's survey showed he now has a 36 percentage point lead over Whitman among Latino voters, up from 19 percent in September. Latinos make up one fifth of the California electorate and are seen as pivotal in deciding the governor's race.

The poll also found that with two weeks to go before the November 2 elections, three-term U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer maintains an eight point lead over first-time Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69N0XP20101024

[ProudDad]

1. Better not let Christine O'Donnel know about the "surge" (n/t)

[Quixote1818]

2. Well, at least Whitman helped out the California economy by sinking tens of millions

of her own money into the states economy.

[jonthebru]

19. Oh, yeah, the billboard and electronic media part of the economy.

[rpannier]

22. Someone had to make and them put them up

They had to pay someone to put up those billboards and stuff
She probably looked for the cheapest labor she could find -- Outsourced??

[FreeState]

31. Outsourced, even her bus has Tennessee plates n/t

[rpannier]

37. Someone should have made a commercial of her getting on her bus and driving away

The camera focusing on the license plate.
No speaking, no comments
Just the words "Tennessee????"

[HooptieWagon]

48. A lot of tour buses have Tennessee plates.

Saw one on the road in Tampa wednesday. I guess that since Nashville is a recording industry hotspot, a lot of tour companies are also based out of there.

[ProudDad]

3. Seriously, it would be much better for Jerry to be Governor

especially if the Dems can get Single-Payer passed again next year.

But you'll still have to hold Jerry's feet to the fire -- he's unpredictable...

[icnorth]

4. Looks like your $143,000,000 personal trickle down economic

stimulus just hasn't cut it Meg. But hey, you said it "you can't buy elections in California".

[Kind of Blue]

11. Seen written out, that's a ridiculous amount of money

to sink into a campaign for governor. Makes me wonder if there's not something else up beside being the queen of the state for someone who didn't vote for most of her adult life. It's mind boggling to me.

[icnorth]

16. Totally agree. If this is about

queen of the state status this has to be the most expensive personally funded ego trip in history.

[jmowreader]

29. Come on, you KNOW there's something else

She sees this as an investment in her future--if she gets in there and goes all "business friendly" on us, she'll net lucrative board appointments and club memberships, and become even richer than she already is.

At some point, money changes from an item you use to buy things to an item you collect for its own sake. Meg is in the "collecting" point in her life.

[Kind of Blue]

38. Yes, I do. Exactly what, I'm not sure.

Never considered board and club memberships as comparable exchange for that kind of money. Was thinking along the lines of who or what entity really needs her as California governor at all costs.

[JDPriestly]

52. jmowreader, I agree with you.

Do you remember the words from the song from Chicago,

Ask any of the chickies in my pen
They'll tell you I'm the biggest mother hen
I love 'em all and all of them love me
Because the system works
The system called reciprocity...

Got a little motto
Always sees me through
When you're good to Mama
Mama's good to you.

There's a lot of favors
I'm prepared to do
You do one for Mama
She'll do one for you.

They say that life is tit for tat
And that's the way I live
So, I deserve a lot of tat
For what I've got to give
Don't you know that this hand
Washes that one too
When you're good to Mama
Mama's good to you!

http://paroles.abazada.com/chanson,when-youre-good-to-m...

Meg Whitman wants to become California's Mama hen, the keeper of the keys.

People who strive to become very, very wealthy are driven by the desire for wealth. Unless they go through some spiritual epiphany, they don't change. Meg Whitman is driven. She is now collecting power. You are, in my opinion, very correct.

[SemperEadem]

47. her overblown sense of entitlement is what it is

the fact that she thought she could buy her way into the governor's position speaks directly to that.

[CountAllVotes]

5. just proves one thing

MONEY cannot buy you love Whitless!

GOVERNOR BROWN 2010!!

[icnorth]

17. Maybe not love...

but if she got herself a set of pink underwear from Sheriff Joe Arpaio like Sarah Palin who knows where she could have taken this?

[xchrom]

6. Whipping Whitman while whistling.

Good on ya, mr brown.

[zonkers]

7. Eat your heart out , NYT.

[DCKit]

8. Is anyone else disturbed that Jerry doesn't have the support of 150% of Latinos?

Talk about voting against your own interests.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. Why? There is no group that votes 100% in favor of any party.

[DCKit]

36. Yeah.... Log Cabin Republicans. Go figure. n/t

[No Elephants]

39. I' guessing religion, both evangelical and Catholic, plays a significant role.

[alp227]

9. 50%+ support? Sweet.

Most of the polls I've seen on RealClearPolitics show that although Brown had slightly less than 50% favor, Brown had a lead of 5 points or more this month. Meanwhile, among independents, according to Public Policy Institute of CA Whitman has a 1-point lead. And Whitman still continues lying in her ads. GO JERRY!

[msongs]

10. Brown can run some ads asking for votes for ALL democrats running in CA - a tidal wave of votes! nt

[Iliyah]

14. Why isn't

she in jail? Hiring an illegal alien is against the law. Oh wait, she's a repug, they never do anything wrong. Good news about Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer. I'll wait for Nov. 2nd to vote at my polling place and damn if some retard Tea Bat try to harass me.

[Can of Whoop-ass]

34. Nancy Reagan

had two Peruvian Maids in the White House the day Saint Ronnie signed that bill.

[Zambero]

45. Unlike Whitman

At least Nancy had the good sense not to run for office

[Kind of Blue]

12. Sweet! KnR. n/t

[Jefferson23]

15. All that money Whitman, oh well...lol. n/t

[instantkarma]

18. good news, bad news and propaganda

After going to the source, the L.A. Times...

The Brown-Whitman poll interviewed 1,501 people, a good sample size. The margin of error is 3.2 percent. Also in the poll is the question "Who do you trust more?" in which Brown also leads Whitman, 44-24 percent.

The prop 19 poll cited in the Reuters story also comes from the L.A. Times. However, the sample size is 441 "likely voters," a very small sample. The margin of error with this poll is 4.6 percent (which to me makes it pretty worthless). So according to the error margin it could be anywhere from 55.6-34.4 to 46.4-43.6. That's anywhere between a 2.8-22.2 percent difference.

Reuters doesn't mention the polls were taken at different times, taken with much different sample sizes (Reuters doesn't report those at all) and that they were reported in the L.A. Times in two separate stories. (perhaps they want to give the impression that the questions were part of the same poll)

If you want to see the original story/stories at the source, go to the L.A. Times. Brown-Whitman is on the main page and type "Prop 19" in the search box.

[jonthebru]

20. Good job.

[ThePatriotHour]

21. Mid-Term Surprise!

We believe that no one is polling those under 30,
the age group that had more voters than the over 60 crowd
for the first time in American political history.
This video explains it, and will make you laugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL66LSkDEuI

Enjoy!..............Jeff

[LibDemAlways]

23. Because she had a primary challenger, Whitman's face has been

on tv for many months. I'm sick of looking at her, and I'm sure I'm not alone. She is trying to buy the governor's seat at a time when the current failed governor is also a repuke with a bunch of money and no prior government experience. I think the people of this state are ready to return a seasoned, experienced former governor and present attorney general to Sacramento rather than take their chances on a woman whose claim to fame is that she was CEO of an enterprise that consists of people selling stuff to each other over the internet. I can't wait for her to lose.

[BlueDemKev]

24. Finally....

...some GOOD news! California voters, don't get complacent. Please go and vote on election day (or sooner). Brown & Boxer, ALL THE WAY!!

[tularetom]

25. There is no accountability in the world of the CEO

No matter how bad you fuck up you are going to walk away from your job with the goldest of golden parachutes.

And most likely, through your network of interlocking corporate directorates, find another high paying CEO gig before you even cash the first dividend check from the stock options you cashed out.

I think this stupid woman lives in some sort of dream world. If she screws up in CA, she can always become the governor of, oh, I dunno, New York?

Managing the government is a hell of a lot harder than being the CEO of some dumbass corporation. In theory anyway, you actually have to produce.

[proud patriot]

26. Thank goodness

[defendandprotect]

27. Trust Dems will continue the surge to the LEFT we began in '06 ... break thru rw block ..!!

Yes, we have problems with corporate Democrats --

we'll have to come back and deal with them later --

FIRST, deal with knocking out as many Repugs as possible!!

[Joanne98]

28. Money can't buy you love!

[johnnyplankton]

30. HAPPY! HAPPY! JOY! JOY!

And I'm from Boston.

[whatchamacallit]

32. Thank Dog!

[Sonoman]

33. And she got her ass kicked out of the Sonoma Farmers' Market.

This past Tuesday, she was in Sonoma in a big green bus with "Jobs are on the way" billboards on the side. They were driving all around town, which is two miles square and has a population of around 9,000. They would park the bus on the street and in front of some pretty influential Rebpublicans' houses.

They had the thing parked in front of Don Sebastiani's house, which is on my block. Don is a real rightie and is also "the" Sebastiani of wine fame.

So I walked on down to the bus to see what was up and, lo and behold, there was the Megster herself. I asked her what in the world she was doing in Sonoma, considering there are probably no more than 1,500 registered voters. "We are touring small towns in our bus and meeting people." I thought that rather strange because there is no in-between here, just hard-core Dems and the Other Guys.

Then, they drive four blocks to the Plaza.

Our Tuesday Markets on our Town Plaza are a really big deal. Hundreds of people show up.

So Meg and her bunch disembark right in front of the Plaza and get out, only to be confronted by Hilda - the director of the market.

You would have had to have been there.

Hilda- 80-something years old farmer's wife, WalMart clothes and a walker.

Meg Whitman, imperiously smug.

Hilda told her to leave because "politicking isn't allowed".

And leave, they did.

Meg Whitman backed down to an old woman with a walker.

I wish I would have had a camera.

The whole thing is in Kathleen Hill's article from 10/22 at www.sonomanews.com .

Do not buy Sebastiani wine.

Sonoman

[pinboy3niner]

50. "Meg Whitman backed down to an old woman with a walker."

Heh heh.

I wish you'd had a camera on you, too.

[Overseas]

35. Yaaay! Hope that's a trend nationwide! Give us More Democrats!

Hoping millions are fed up with the multi-millions of secret-dollars funneled into right wing "genuine grass roots" campaigns to defeat President Obama's push for change and rush to the polls to vote those suckers out.

Hoping the Obama younger voters rush out there too. They can see through the disgusting overt and dangerous propaganda of the professional right. Hope they make a firm stand against it and we all get together to push for more solid progressive change in the years ahead.

[No Elephants]

40. Democrats' opposition these days: numbingly stupid, insane and/or bloodlessly greedy and selfish.

We HAVE to win.

Surge, Jerry, surge!

[Le Taz Hot]

41. Maybe this will help with Prop. 19.

I'm glad Boxer's lead has increased. About a week ago, the MSM "news" was reporting a neck-and-neck race.

[NBachers]

43. Yeah, I agree, but I'm still apprehensive about that race. A Fiorina victory would be a disaster

[deacon]

42. Vital race. Go Jerry! I'd love to know how much she's spent. An update. n/t

[Zambero]

44. She should have kept her cash

Same with Carly. It doesn't look like a good year for free-spending elitist former CEO's, at least in California anyway.

[earcandle]

46. Yeah! The people at work!

[happygoluckytoyou]

49. GO BROWN.... GO GREEN..... GO AWAY WHITMAN

[KurtNYC]

51. Spend more Whitman...c'mon you can (try harder to) buy this thing...

You're already in for $120 mil....spend it all baby.