{"id":11271,"date":"2010-03-12T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-12T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T01:18:29","slug":"are-we-watching-meg-whitman-implode-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/12\/are-we-watching-meg-whitman-implode-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Watching Meg Whitman Implode? Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>Meg Whitman’s campaign is a juggernaut. She’s got famous Republican consultants all over the place, and she’s got enough money to blanket TV with more Meg-ifornia spots than you’d ever want to see.<\/p>\n

But despite all the “talent”, the campaign is going off the rails. Yesterday, there was the whole brouhaha about not taking press questions at a press event<\/a>, but that wasn’t it.  Later that evening, her campaign team kicked out Jeremy Thompson<\/a> from an event. Jeremy had been invited, RSVP’d, and then when he went into the event, they told him that he had to leave or they were going to call the cops.  Check out his twitter feed<\/a> for more details. <\/p>\n

But, Steve Poizner’s web video to the right here has the best moment (or the worst, depending on where you stand) for Whitman.  At a “town hall” Whitman had some of the audience members re-ask questions because eMeg messed up the answer the first time.  Apparently it wasn’t so much a town hall, as a campaign ad.<\/p>\n

Thing is, the Whitman campaign team is trying to run this like a corporate operation. You know, you can call for do-overs when you are shooting with your employees. However, you don’t get any Mulligans in a campaign. As tightly as Sarah Pompei would like to run the Whitman ship, that’s not how campaigns work.<\/p>\n

You’d think with all the experienced people on this staff, they’d have figured out how to run a town hall by now. But apparently, no, not so much. It looks like this is a junior high class president’s campaign instead of a campaign for governor of the state of California with all the missteps they’ve made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>Meg Whitman’s campaign is a juggernaut. She’s got famous Republican consultants all over the place, and she’s got enough money to blanket TV with more Meg-ifornia spots than you’d ever want to see.<\/p>\n

But despite all the “talent”, the campaign is going off the rails. Yesterday, there was the whole brouhaha about not taking press questions at a press event<\/a>, but that wasn’t it.  Later that evening, her campaign team kicked out Jeremy Thompson<\/a> from an event. Jeremy had been invited, RSVP’d, and then when he went into the event, they told him that he had to leave or they were going to call the cops.  Check out his twitter feed<\/a> for more details. <\/p>\n

But, Steve Poizner’s web video to the right here has the best moment (or the worst, depending on where you stand) for Whitman.  At a “town hall” Whitman had some of the audience members re-ask questions because eMeg messed up the answer the first time.  Apparently it wasn’t so much a town hall, as a campaign ad.<\/p>\n

Thing is, the Whitman campaign team is trying to run this like a corporate operation. You know, you can call for do-overs when you are shooting with your employees. However, you don’t get any Mulligans in a campaign. As tightly as Sarah Pompei would like to run the Whitman ship, that’s not how campaigns work.<\/p>\n

You’d think with all the experienced people on this staff, they’d have figured out how to run a town hall by now. But apparently, no, not so much. It looks like this is a junior high class president’s campaign instead of a campaign for governor of the state of California with all the missteps they’ve made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[415,4467,770],"class_list":["post-11271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-415","tag-4467","tag-770"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2VN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}