(CA-GOV-R) Whitman holds single-digit lead over Poizner

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Despite spending $68 million of her fortune on a half-year torrent of TV ads, billionaire former eBay CEO Meg Whitman's once-robust lead over Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner in the Republican race for governor has dwindled from 50 points to just nine points, according to a new statewide poll.

In the GOP primary for U.S. Senate, another wealthy businesswoman, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, is holding onto a narrow lead over former South Bay Rep. Tom Campbell, Wednesday's poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California shows.

At the same time, about one-third of likely Republican primary voters in the races remain undecided three weeks before the June 8 election, the poll shows.

... Since March, Whitman has lost most of what was considered to be an insurmountable 50-point lead. She now holds a 38 to 29 percent lead over Poizner among GOP voters, according to the poll taken May 9-16. Poizner has donated $24 million of his own money to his campaign.

If the election were held today, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, who has spent no money on ads and held his first official event this week, would beat each of the GOP hopefuls in head-to-head matchups, the poll found.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/19/MNJO1DH7UL.DTL&tsp=1

[Mz Pip]

1. They are both rich

Meg and Poizner are dumping millions into the govenor's race and Jerry Brown is just watching them grinning from the side lines.

Fiorino is also spending a lot of her own money I think.

I guess for the GOP all you need to have to be qualified to hold high public office is to be very rich.

[happygoluckytoyou]

4. badda boom..... class warfare as it has always been

[WCGreen]

5. It seems there at least is some economic activity goinf on in California...

Id

[Kerrytravelers]

2. How sad. Wasting all that money for nothing.

:rofl:

[onehandle]

3. Losers. nt

[county worker]

6. Whitman is turning to the tea party crowd. She has ads that tout her teabag credentials

[No Elephants]

7. "Teabag credentials" is close to an oxymoron. Best I can tell, being a teabagger

requires vulnerability to being brainwashed and

Nope that's it. Vulnerability to being brainwashed.

[No Elephants]

8. $68 million on TV ads. Wonder how much of that will "trickle down" to California workers or

or create jobs for California's unemployed.

Vanity, thy name is Politician.