Meg Whitman spent $150 million.... to lose handily, it appears

scheming daemons

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:24 PM
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Meg Whitman spent $150 million.... to lose handily, it appears

Big money doesn't always win.

Jerry Brown was outspent 10 to 1.

Meg spent more than the GDP of many small nations to become a Senator.

...and she failed.

That shows that we can beat the big money if we run smart campaigns like Brown did.

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polichick

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:25 PM
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1. That is a good lesson coming out of this. nt

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SharonAnn

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:36 PM
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16. She was on the ticket for governor. So if she was running for senator, she was

on the wrong ticket.

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Iris

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:25 PM
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2. very nice!

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Pisces

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:26 PM
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3. I am so glad she lost.

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county worker

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:26 PM
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4. Everyplace is not California. We see the world a bit different than the

rest of the country.

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Fresh_Start

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:27 PM
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5. Meg, you shouldn't have held back

another 75-150 million of your own money would have made the difference (NOT)

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onehandle

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:27 PM
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6. It helped that she was insufferable. nt

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flamingdem

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:27 PM
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7. She was doing well until the scandal happened with her housekeeper

That was fortunate timing.

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Orrex

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:28 PM
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8. I wonder if she decided to vote in this election.

You know, for a change of pace?

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Prism

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:28 PM
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9. She alone motivated me to volunteer for a campaign.

I wasn't going to do any volunteering this cycle due to frustration and anger with the national party.

Ole Meg went and made a liar out of me.

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krispos42

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:29 PM
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10. See? Rich people generally do stupid, unstimulative things with their money

The money would have been better put to use building a school someplace or something.

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madmax

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:29 PM
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11. Big Ed said earlier tonight that we'll have to

start donating for 2012 now to have the money to compete with the corporate cash that has always been injected into our election plus the bonus ruling regarding campaign contributions that the USSC ruling handed over.

:banghead: Paying to get screwed.

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11cents

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:29 PM
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12. It wasn't about a smart Brown campaign, IMHO

People disliked Whitman. Disliked her more and more as her ads ran and ran -- she actually hurt herself with all her spending. Brown lay low until after Labor Day to save money, and ran some good ads thereafter, but I don't think his campaign really had much to do with the result. At the end of the day, he could present himself as a known quantity who was not Meg Whitman.

Watching Whitman flush all that money away for bupkis is tonight's consolation for Californians.

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Bobbieo

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:33 PM
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13. That 'Why I moved to California 30 years ago' ad didn't help her!

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Lucky 13

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:34 PM
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14. A bright spot this evening for sure! That and the Witchy Woman from Delaware.

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shanti

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:35 PM
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15. too bad she wasn't bankrupted

:eyes:

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npk

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:39 PM
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17. She was running for Governor of the state of California

not as a US Senator.

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Toucano

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Tue Nov-02-10 10:40 PM
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18. In the interest of accuracy, the Republic of Kiribati is the only country

with a GDP of less than 140 million dollars, according the the IMF.

I offer this just information, not to be a contrarian.

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