BROWN LEADS CA GOVERNOR’S RACE DESPITE WHITMAN’S $140M PERSONAL EXPENDITURE

For most of us, it is pretty staggering to contemplate Meg Whitman spending one hundred and forty million dollars of her own money in her quest to occupy California’s executive office—but she has.

Even more staggering, after doing so—and just two weeks before the election—Whitman’s election opponent Jerry Brown is at the height of his popularity with 50% supporting him for that office, to just 44% intending to vote for Meg Whitman, according to the latest Rasmussen poll conducted after the latest (and final) televised debate in the race to be California's next governor.

The Real Clear Politics average of all of the available polling data is consistent with this trend, with no poll showing Whitman above the 44% mark.

Frankly, since we have all been saturated with Whitman’s anti-Brown television ads for weeks, and since “Whore-Gate” failed to turn voters against Brown, it is hard to imagine Whitman winning this election.

Which serves to illustrate that the voter’s Insincerity Meter (the same inner voice that cost Mitt Romney the last Republican presidential nomination) is alive and well.