Mar 05 2009
Field Poll Shows Dianne Feinstein and Meg Whitman Leading California Governor’s Race & Was Proposition 8 a Ruse to Hurt California Democrats?
Field Poll Shows Dianne Feinstein and Meg Whitman Leading California Governor’s Race & Was Proposition 8 a Ruse to Hurt California Democrats?
By Marc Chamot
As expected the California race for governor has just put Democrat Dianne Feinstein with a 38% and Republican former eBay CEO Meg Whitman with 21% in the lead over their respective party rivals. These are two women with two very different philosophical political mind sets.
Unless Senator Dianne Feinstein is willing to give up her powerful seat as chairwoman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, this would be her decision to make, and only hers, and unless there is a Democratic urgency for her to come home and win the gubernatorial race for the Democrats she’ll probably stay in Washington.
As it may, that urgency might just happen to get her on board for the California governors’ race because the other Democrat political players in the field are trailing by a long shot. And then there’s Republican and my favorite and promising political contender Meg Whitman, she has a great shot in keeping the governor’s office open for the Republicans. Even though 54% of Republicans are yet undecided, but I am sure that they will swing her way once people know who Meg Whitman is all about.
This race could be pivotal for Diane Feinstein and the Democrats, because it could make her or Republican Meg Whitman the first female governor of California among 27 states who haven’t had any women governors in their history. It would also give the Democrats the governor’s office full-term that they haven’t had for over twenty years.
Historically, California have had more recent Republican governors than Democrats, in a lopsided 21 out of 24 years, the Democrats only recent years were the failed Gray Davis 3 years, which he served from 2000-2003 and until he was recalled for incompetence .
The only solid Democratic Party governor California has ever had was way back then, when Edmund Jerry Brown who ran and won office twice before, once in 1959 to 1967 and again after the Ronald Reagan years in 1975 to 1983. Now this Edmund Jerry Brown is running for his fifth four year term and possibly for another 8 years as governor, he’s already the longest running governor in California history. So much for term limits eh folks?
But unfortunately for Attorney General of California’s Edmund jerry Brown’s stock has dropped immensely. Before the proposition 8, the banning of marriages for homosexuals, Edmund Jerry Brown was ranked much higher than the 16% he currently has.
When he publicly came out and swore that he would defend the voters will on the initiative, but when proposition 8 the banning of gay marriage passed, he made a total about face on his promise, and basically told the voters the hell with you, I will not support you on your election results. It brought seething anger among Californian voters who voted for the issue, and if the courts do overturn proposition 8, his head will be on the chopping block with the voters.
As I had posted last December, I knew that Edmund Jerry Brown’s about face on proposition 8 would ruin him from getting another shot for his five peats at the governor’s office. According to the field poll, he is now tied with a virtually unknown in California politics, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Then we’ve got the real darling of the lot, the San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, and he’s rated the lowest of all Democrat contenders at 10%. Does this ever comedic and loony mayor think that he had any chance of becoming governor of California?
During his years as mayor, there were the affair scandals, the legalizing of marriages to homosexuals, and the protection of criminal illegal aliens, and including providing ID cards to all illegal aliens.
Here’s a take on some of it, when he actually made out with his best friend’s wife,
“But friends and City Hall insiders say Newsom, at the time in the middle of his divorce from Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Ruby Rippey- Tourk, had the affair while she worked as his appointments secretary.
Rippey-Tourk, a former Santa Rosa TV anchor, took a leave of absence from the mayor’s office last summer and sought treatment for substance abuse in Arizona. She had once denied the affair to her husband, but last week told him it had occurred.
Tourk, who had worked for Newsom as a key deputy chief of staff before heading his re-election campaign, held a one-hour closed- door meeting Wednesday with Newsom at the campaign office where he told Newsom he knew about the affair. Then he quit.”
Even though with all of their problems, Liberal Democrats still cannot break into the voting block of the more moderate and conservative mainstream rural California and those are the voters that usually go Republican.
