Election Day has come and gone. The confetti has been swept up, the pundits are busy doing postmortems on how someone could possibly spend a gazillion dollars (that may not be the exact figure) and still lose by double digits.

As the analysts and talking heads dissect what went wrong in the most expensive statewide campaign in history, let's take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?

(Team Whitman is also in a nostalgic mood. Their YouTube retrospective doesn't make mention of whores or housekeepers, but we like the soundtrack.)

Here are some of the more quotable moments we've painstakingly logged here at Politics Verbatim:

"It's like Goebbels."

During an impromptu meeting with a reporter during a weekend jog, Brown compares Whitman's campaign tactics with Nazi propaganda.

"Fresno looks like Detroit"

Discussing California's hard-hit economy with the San Jose Mercury News editorial board, Whitman departs from her script to comment that "Fresno looks like Detroit. It's awful."

Team Brown pounces. "Maybe from inside her billionaire bubble Fresno and Detroit look the same," spokesman Sterling Clifford tells the Fresno Bee.

"Whoregate"

You all know the story. Brown calls a police union for an endorsement, somehow fails to hang up the phone and inadvertantly records himself ranting about Whitman trading pension protection for endorsements. As he fumes, a never-identified staffer appears to interject, "She's a whore!" Madness ensues.

Nicky Diaz comes to town

Some analysts credit allegations by Whitman's former housekeeper with the GOP nominee's decline in the polls. The woman holds devastating back-to-back press conferences with attorney Gloria Allred, accusing her old boss of overlooking her illegal status during her nine years of employment at Whitman's home and then casting her aside when she asked for help finding an immigration attorney. Team Whitman spends several days on the offensive, maintaining that Whitman fired Diaz as soon as she found out she was illegal.

Brown on marijuana

Never one for a script, Brown tells Good Day LA he's against Prop. 19, because, "We've got to compete with China and if everybody's stoned, how the hell are we going to make it? We've got to be tough and disciplined."

Matt Lauer throws a curve

After months of talking points and three debates, who knew it was possible to throw the candidates off script? The "Today" show host throws Whitman and Brown by asking whether they will agree to pull their negative ads. Brown hedges, then goes with it and agrees. Whitman uncomfortably declines while the audience boos her.

Whitman uses Bill Clinton

Whitman creates waves when she releases an ad using a 1992 clip of Clinton citing a CNN report to attack Brown for being untruthful about his tax record. The CNN journalist who compiled the report, independent fact-checkers and Clinton publicly say the report was wrong – taxes actually ended up lower by the time Brown left office than when he started.

Undeterred, Whitman continues airing the ad, calling it "essentially" true. Clinton calls the spot "a devastatingly good ad – if it had been accurate" and endorses Brown, even after the fired-up attorney general makes an ill-advised reference to the Lewinsky affair at a campaign stop.

Whitman as Pinocchio

Frustrated by Whitman's attack ads, Brown releases one of his own. Creative and decidedly mean, it portrays Whitman as Pinocchio, the pathological liar of a wooden puppet whose nose grew with his untruths. "Whitman's nose keeps growing by the millions," the ad says.