Tennessee’s colorful candidate Basil Marceaux unfortunately won 1% of the vote on last Thursday’s Republican Party Primary for Governor. For the public tired of the status quo in political candidates Basil helped to grab the attention of Americans all over the nation not just Tennessee where we have previously covered his campaign in previous posts at iepolitics.com.
A little less than two weeks ago California Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown was poking at Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman over the millions she had spent to date, and the fact he still had a 5 point lead in a recent poll.
Remember the invite Meg to tea comment?
Then came last Wednesday. The widely respected Field Poll had Whitman and Brown in a statistical tie. Brown stopped laughing.
So much for that lead. A lead Brown will likely never see again.
One observation is becoming increasingly clear on the republican side of the California Governor’s race.
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner needs to bow out.
There has been countless times in the past where ego has led to the needless waste of millions of campaign dollars in a futile attempt at overcoming poor odds. This is one of those times.
The battle lines have already formed between former EBay CEO Meg Whitman and Attorney General Jerry Brown, who will likely be the democratic nominee.
Whitman has been spending big money to elevate her name identification and it’s working. The runner-up republican candidate Poizner is starting to be ignored, and calls for him to drop out of the race are increasing.
Poizner spending more of his own money isn’t going to do anything.
When you call a press conference to bash your opponent, but the media thinks you’re about to announce you’re dropping out of the race, it’s a bad sign.
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