Don’t Count Whitman Out
The new Public Policy Institute poll was released showing Meg Whitman eight points behind Jerry Brown in the race for governor. While this is the largest deficit Whitman has faced against her rival, this race is not over.
Whitman shows weaknesses in a couple of areas that could be corrected over the next two weeks and strengths in a couple of areas that are important to the voters.
The poll shows that one in ten Republicans is supporting Jerry Brown. In addition, there is a 15-point gap with Brown leading among women voters. Whitman needs to and can shrink these numbers.
Is the Tea Party saving the Democrats?
There is no question there is a Republican wave building throughout most of the country that will probably deliver the House of Representatives to the Republicans. But polling just this week is showing that optimism for huge GOP gains in the U.S. Senate may be fading.
If the GOP fails to win the Senate in this wave year, Tea Party candidates, especially those favored by the California-based Tea Party Express, will be to blame.
Green for thee, but not for me
If a developer trumpeted his commitment to a "green community," promised to scrupulously abide by environmental processes, and then snuck a provision in the state budget agreement in the dead of night to get an exemption from those laws, then editorialists would thunder, politicians’ would fume, and environmentalists would be hiring lawyers.
But substitute "state government" for "developer," and all is silent.
Where’s Jerry Brown on Water?
Opinion of the California Farm Bureau Federation and Nisei Farmers League
Twenty days from the election, Jerry Brown just remembered that water is important to Californians.
For a former governor of our state seeking the job again, it’s mind boggling to us that Jerry Brown has refused to take a position on the water bond and only now puts out a vague statement about his thoughts on water.
That is not leadership. That is political cowardice in the face of crisis.