My Take On Why Carly And Meg Don't Stand A Chance In CA

Here in California, two very, very rich people are running for offices. One is Carly Fiorina and the other is Meg Whitman. Both made a gazillion dollars off of poorly running large corporations before they got booted. This is fairly common knowledge, the kind that simple Google/Yahoo searches can come up with. Californians as a whole are not a stupid bunch (even if they let Prop 19 go down in "flames"). 23 won't pass because Californians are very aware of who the backers are, and we pride ourselves in this state on the advances we have made (thanks, in no small part to a "governor moonbeam" that started the run in California with solar energy) concerning controlling emissions from the energy companies, among other things.

While other states may have to grapple with the rich guys/gals making it into Washington or into their state governments, I am rather confident that won't happen with Meg and Carly.

Brown, the Democratic attorney general and former governor, led Whitman 52% to 39% among likely voters, the poll found. His advantage has more than doubled since a Times/USC poll in September.

The abrupt movement in the race for governor came as Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer held onto her 8-point margin over Republican Carly Fiorina in the U.S. Senate contest. Boxer's 50% to 42% lead was statistically unchanged from September's 51% to 43% edge.

And while I am not particularly in favor of the professional government employee, i.e., one who spends most of their life in politics, I'm pretty sure the fact that Whitman never voted in her life until she decided, rather cavalierly, that she should be governor, is not lost on the electorate. Likewise, Fiorina's very rich elitest background and her actions to cut and offshore jobs resonates with those unemployed Californians!