Just spent few days in LA - didn't watch much TV but when i did, all

[Hawaii Hiker]

i saw were Meg Whitman ads...If she's advertising this much for a primary, how much will she spend in the general, assuming she beats Poizner...

CA. Duers, what do we know about Whitman?...Is she socially conservative, or somewhat moderate?...How strong is Jerry Brown against either of these GOP candiates?...

[Cant trust em]

1. She's a california conservative, which means fairly moderate

compared to national republicans.

Brown is still polling a few points ahead.

[Iggo]

2. From just watching her ads, what do I know about her? Nothing.

Her ads are about what a good liberal Steve Poizner is. I like him more every day...lol.

[flamingdem]

4. +1

[Hawaii Hiker]

5. That's true..The one ad

was basically a run-down of reasons why Poinzer is a liberal...Hell, he's probably better than many of the blue dogs....

[mike_c]

3. I really don't have much of a sense of how Whitman is doing statewide....

Here on the North Coast she would be hard pressed to find much support, I think. Elsewhere, especially inland? It's hard to know. Certainly she will have more support outside of the northern and coastal counties. It's hard to imagine her beating Jerry Brown, however.

[robdogbucky]

7. She started by throwing many millions of her own money

into the campaign, sprinting out of the box. Then there was the Goldman Sachs connection exposed, and she had to spend more of her own money. Then Poizner started to counter her and there was some interesting stuff that I didn't follow cuz I just don't follow Pubs in primaries much, but Poizner wanted to debate her and I think she ran from that challenge, and lo, she spent some more of her own money.

Then Brown, after watching her spend money for months, finally announced and she spent some more of her own money. Brown currently enjoys a comfortable lead over her or any Pub candidate, so she has spent some more of her own money.

The most recent thing I saw was the new ad campaign of key Pub supporters, Mitt Romney and, wait for it........Kindasleezy Rice.

Yup, she is spending even more of her own money hiring buffoons like BigDigRomney and the war criminal Rice.

She is currently figuring where next to spend some more of her own money.

I think when it is all said and done, pot will be legalized in California and she will have spent most of her own money to buy the office but will finish a distant second to Jerry Brown, the once before and future governor.

Kind of brings tears to my eyes to think that lovely, warm, generous, progressive-thinking scion of the business world, Meg Whitman, could not buy the office of governor here in Cal. I swear all the rhetoric from her ceaseless radio ads are regurgitated from the last 30 years of failed Pub policy. They are like stuck on stupid.

Oh, well, money well-misspent.


Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[Frances]

6. She's already spent over $80 million of her own money

in the primary and is prepared to spend that much more in the general.

My take is that it's worth it to her to spend $160 million so that she won't have her taxes increased. If she wins, she'll fire even more government workers. You may think that doesn't matter, but wait till you need to go to the DMV and it's closed on an ordinary day--or you want to go on a hike at a state park and it's closed or you have a child in first grade and the teacher has 40 kids in the class with no aide or....

Whitman is about making the top 1% even wealthier by gutting government services and education. She is the kind of CEO who raises her own salary by firing lots of workers all the while saying she's creating jobs.

[Misskittycat]

8. I'm in San Diego. It's all ads - all the time. Every position; every ballot measure.

I can't wait until the primary is over next week.