ALL OVER FOR MEG WHITMAN NEW POLL NUMBERS SHOW

SECOND UPDATE: Brown leads Whitman by 10 points, latest poll says; updated 10/28/2010 at 3:14 am (SF Chronicle)

[UPDATE: 10/27/2010@8:30 AM CA TIME: Just six hours after this post, new poll results have come in and Brown has surged to a commanding 9.5 percent lead in the RCP average of all recent polls.]

Thanks to a staggering $150,000,000.000 (one hundred fifty million dollars and no cents) that Meg Whitman personally spent to make the California Governor’s race the most expensive non-Presidential campaign in the history of the United States, it’s all over for Meg Whitman the latest poll numbers show.

With just one week to go before the election, the Real Clear Politics average of all polls tracking the race now gives Whitman’s Democratic challenger Jerry Brown a whopping 9 point lead among likely voters. A pretty anemic showing for Whitman under the circumstance$.

It seems that the more money Whitman pours into the race, the more she reminds the electorate of just who she is: A dilettante who was not even registered to vote for the 28 years preceding her decision to sign papers tossing her hat in the ring for California’s highest political office who often does not tell the truth, does not have a clue about the issues and is seeking to buy the office out of vanity.

If Whitman had not been so divorced from politics for the last three decades, she might have avoided costly gaffs like her campaign video wistfully recalling that “30 years ago this state was a place of limitless possibilities…this is why I moved to California so many years ago”—by realizing that the time in California that she was idealizing was the very point when Jerry Brown was California’s Governor!

Ultimately though, it is our opinion that the voters (or the 50% of them voting for Brown to her 41% to be exact) saw right through this phony despite all of her money and slick TV ads that she tried to ram down our throats in her quest to buy the Governor’s Office like it was the big gift featured in the Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog this year.

Yes, in our view the fat lady from Silicon Valley has sung—off key.

It is indeed emblematic of Whitman’s campaign that California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to endorse Republican Meg Whitman’s candidacy for the very office he holds as recently as yesterday—and that even her hometown newspaper (along with every other major daily newspaper in the state) endorsed her rival.