From Reuters:
Republican Meg Whitman has opened up a 7-point lead over Democrat Jerry Brown in their closely watched race for California governor, the latest poll of likely voters showed on Friday…
Not being from California I really can’t say exactly what is happening out there, but I suggest the following: an increasingly corrupt and out of touch California government is about to be punished at the polls. I think Whitman understands this – taking a page off the scandal of local government pay, Whitman has been running ads (which I heard when I was out there dealing with my brother) pointing out that Jerry Brown, when mayor of Oakland, lavished pay on his staff.
It is a devastating and unanswerable critique and exactly geared towards an election which a revolt of the people against the government. And it is things like this – a GOPer 7 points ahead in what has been a very blue State – which tells me that we should throw out the political rule books. All the pundits and polls and prognostications need to be taken with a grain of sale – no one really knows what is going to happen on November 2nd. Other than in the general sense that Democrats, holding more offices than the GOP, will lose more.
But don’t be surprised by any turn of events – the only thing we can do is just work for our side and just let things play out as they will. The people are in charge of America’s politics – not the politicians and now the “experts” who presume to tell us how things will be.
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