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After spending tens of millions, Meg Whitman's stunning fall in polls shows inability to connect, experts say
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| Last Edited | Jason Oct 29, 2010 03:39am |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Jose Mercury News |
| News Date | Friday, October 29, 2010 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | For a Republican to win statewide in bright blue California, just about everything has to go right.
But in the past few weeks, just about everything for Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor, has gone terribly wrong.
Despite spending more than $160 million -- $141.5 million from her own pocket -- the billionaire is now down by 8 to 13 percentage points in the state's three major polls. It's a scenario no one could have imagined in mid-September, when polls showed Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown running neck and neck.
"The fact is that she just couldn't close the sale with voters," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California.
Whitman's looming loss is a huge disappointment for Republicans, many of whom had hoped in a year when the political outsider is in, a moderate woman with business skills and bundles of her own cash could beat a Democrat who's been around the block.
But Whitman, political analysts say, has stumbled badly when her gold-plated consultants' political script went awry -- whether it was reporters asking about her dismal voting record, a celebrity attorney trotting out Whitman's former illegal immigrant housekeeper or "Today" show host Matt Lauer pushing her to take her TV attack ads off the air. |
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