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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Meg Whitman loses, despite heavy spending

It's amazing to hear: Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, the woman who has poured more than $142 million into her campaign, the woman who bought many ads saying she would scale back state government and fix the state, has lost her race. Voters picked Jerry Brown, who has spent over thirty years in politics. Even more amazing is that he spent only $30 million of his own money on the race. It could be fair to say that it didn't help that she had so many ads running. After all, a year of saying the same things over and over, people might get tired of it. Brown served from 1975 to 1983, and the only reason he could run this time was because he was governor before term limits were introduced.

2 comments:

  1. Nutmeg was lousy at national politics as was the Carly, so what who cares, they can still run again, someday. They both were tagged with outsourcing US jobs to foreign lands and lets face it, Arnold did not do a great job, so why act surprose?

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  2. This is a fair point, however, I would think that a person spending at such high levels would eventually convert enough people into thinking that their opponent is worse than they are.

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