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Rasmussen: Whitman clears 50% in CA-GOV.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 26th, 2010 at 10:30 AM  | 

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That’s with leaners (51/43): without leaners  Meg Whitman’s ‘only’ up 48/40 over Moonbeam Brown. Which is itself a switch from an earlier 43/41 Brown lead from a Rasmussen poll from a couple of weeks ago.  Whitman is benefiting from strong Republican support, weak Democratic support of Brown, and winning independents… not to mention not being Moonbeam Brown.

In other news, Moonbeam is still trying to explain away his attempts to use government resources to fundraise from anti-American and anti-military hate groups.  Apparently, he’ll take their dirty money, but he doesn’t want to associate with them too closely:

Brown defended his use of a state plane to travel to events attended by some campaign donors and rebutted criticism over his attendance of a fundraiser last week at the house of Jodie Evans, a longtime campaign supporter and co-founder of the leftist activist group Code Pink.

“All these people who worked on my campaign, they have nothing to do with Code Pink,” Brown said. “That was a Jodie Evans and my former campaign workers over many decades, that came to her house.

Details about that particular shindig with the Gold Star Mother-baiting, Saddam-supporting, desertion-supporting, wounded military-attacking, and Jew-hating Jodie Evans may be found here.  And as a reminder: Meg Whitman is none of those things.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • earlgrey

    I saw where Rasmussen also has her closing in on Boxer.

  • Workingman

    Why are only Rasmussen polls cited? To truly gauge anything, more polls should be cited to balance out where Whitman is. I swear, everytime I read RedState they only produce Rasmussen polls. Every single time. Is there some kind of contract you guys have with them or something?

  • ktsub

    The term “prolific poller” comes to mind with Ras. They carpet bomb many races, very frequently, so they are cited often.

    I have seen Redstate, use the Gallup and PPP several times. Check back more often and you will see.

  • ktsub

    Yes, Whitman helps the whole ticket in California. Difficult to see Fiorina winning, if Meg Whitman looses…but could see the reverse. Meg has been very public, she is going to help the entire Republican Party in California.

    Little under the radar, but she pushed the victory in the State Senate Special Election, a couple of weeks ago. Held a fundraiser for Blakeslee and GOTV efforts.

  • rdelbov

    bad poll for democrats as the combination of a likely voter model plus Brown’s negatives push Whitman ahead.

    I think the idea of Brown with the liberal house & senate running amuck scares people.

  • Return to Revolution

    your statement isn’t true. Randomly select any one of Neil Stevens’ unlikely voter posts and every poll under the sun is mentioned and used in statistical analysis. I’ve seen PPP used quite a bit here as well.

    Rasmussen is also the only pollster that has been dead on for most elections in the past couple years, including the presidential election. I think that alone gains them the benefit of the doubt.

  • Richard Mullins

    and Rasmussen’s balance of power has 5 Pickups in the Solid and Leans Rep and 5 Possible pickups in the Toss-Up category. I think we have a good shot at all Toss-ups and with that we have 51. There is one lean Dem that I think might break our way and that would be Washington State.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …or were you simply privately using your organization’s resources to attack this website?

    I have your nonprofit’s phone number, by the way. Keep that in mind when you decide whether or not to spawn a new account here.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Or didn’t already know all of this.

  • IJB

    Caveats: I think Ras is a great polling firm, and I actually think Meg Whitman will win this race.

    Having said that, I don’t believe for a minute that she’s up over 50%, or that she’s beating Brown 51%-43%.

    I know CA, and I just don’t believe that’s credible, esp. with CA voters apparently supporting ObamaCare 50%-47% in the same poll (unfortunately, CA support for Obama isn’t reported by Ras on this CA polling page…).

    Anyway, I suspect both Ras’s previous CA poll, and this one, are “outlier-y” – I suspect Whitman is really up something like 48%-45% right now (with still some ‘upside’ room to grow)…

    And, yeah – this year, I also think the GOP will win not only CA Gov, but CA Lt. Gov, and possibly CA AG as well.