Brown leads Whitman in latest Rasmussen poll (44%-38%)

Meg Whitman has a lot of money. She's mostly spent it on television advertising, and mailing half a million people a 48-page magazine about herself, but a few months ago there was a squalid mini-scandal when she used $20,000 to secretly buy off a conservative website called "Red County."

Meg paid $20,000 for $300 worth of advertising on "Red County." She cut the check a week after they fired a blogger who was secretly being paid $2,500 a month by Steve Poizner. This, of course, was exactly what Madison was hoping would happen when he came up with freedom of the press.

No one cared much at the time, because no one has ever read "Red County," except fans of communist pornography who sometimes add "o" to words by accident.

This week Meg Whitman is in a certain amount of trouble because Goldman Sachs is in the news -- and not in a good way -- and Meg was once shit-canned off their board for taking bribes. From them. It's complicated.

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