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Retrograde

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4. Like Meg Whitman in 2010

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2026, 05:02 PM

4 hrs ago

She started plastering the airwaves a year before the election for governor, using her own fortune to pay for the ads. It got so that people started tuning them out, and she went on to lose to Jerry Brown.

I got tired of Steyer praising himself months ago. If the two top leaders in this case were Steyer and Hilton, I'd vote for Steyer in the general, but I'm glad we don't have two Democrats in the lead (assuming things stay as they are): we'd be subject to months of mudslinging by both of them.

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