Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Nov. 2, 2010"So are you ready to get California moving again? I'm ready, are you?" she asked dozens gathered at a phone bank in a Woodland Hills strip mall. "This is exciting and I want to thank you for everything you are doing. Whose hands is this election in? Yours. … We are going to win this because we're going to turn out the vote."
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Meg Whitman
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Nov. 2, 2010More than 40,000 volunteers had already made millions of phone calls, Whitman said as she forecast victory for the entire GOP ticket. "Thank you for what you have done for me, for California, for the rest of the ticket," she said. "You have made an enormous difference because how are elections won? They are won by people filling out absentee ballots for you and going to the polls."
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Meg Whitman
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Nov. 2, 2010The only poll that matters is tomorrow," she said. "We're going to battle it out til the end." She said there would be "some surprised folks" after the ballots are tallied.
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Jerry Brown
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Nov. 1, 2010“I think this is a good sign that the sun is out,” Brown said, looking out at clear blue skies. “Now as the clouds open, we return hopefully to Sacramento, get stuff done, get California back on the road and we can set the model. We got some problems, but we are a rich state.”
Source: San Diego Union-TribuneTags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Nov. 1, 2010Before sitting down to make calls under green and white signs emblazoned with campaign slogans, she told the small crowd that she could “feel the momentum” that would ensure her victory Tuesday. She noted that she has made dozens of visits to San Diego and told supporters that she was running for them, their children and their grandchildren. “Whose hands is this election in?” she asked before the crowd again erupted into cheers, responding to Whitman with chants of “We are ready.”
Source: San Diego Union-TribuneTags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Nov. 1, 2010Rallying volunteers in Costa Mesa, GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman predicted victory on Election Day. "We are going to win this thing," Whitman said, beaming. "It is really, really exciting."
Source: PolitiCal (Los Angeles Times)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 31, 2010"People came because California was the land of opportunity. It was a different kind of opportunity in 1852 than it is today, but there were challenges. They had courage, they were willing to take risks, they were going into the unknown," Brown said at the Broadway Heights restaurant, where the crowd filled two stories of the building and spilled onto the street corner. "That pioneering spirit is exactly what will get us through again."
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 31, 2010"We have a chance to put a proven job creator in office for the first time in many, many years," Whitman said in rallying supporters on Saturday at the Orange County fairgrounds. "We have a chance to create real change in Sacramento. My bus, right there, it's called the 'Take Back Sac Express' because we're going to take back California for our children and our grandchildren."
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 28, 2010Asked if she thought voters would approve of a tax increase, Whitman said, "If he calls an emergency, you know, they won't like it, but he won't work the problem like I will work it. He will not. So I think voters better plan to have a tax increase coming their way if Jerry Brown's governor."
Source: Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee)Tags: Taxes, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 25, 2010She told hundreds of supporters that Democrat Jerry Brown is "soft on crime" and that she will end his political career. "One more week," Whitman told a cheering crowd at the Hyatt Westlake Plaza in Westlake Village. "One more week until we retire Jerry Brown permanently from politics."
Source: McClatchy NewspapersTags: Campaigns and politics, Crime, Candidate attack, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 25, 2010Down in the polls, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman began the final week of her campaign Monday by rallying supporters and promising victory on Nov. 2. "We are going to win this," the former eBay chief executive told hundreds of supporters gathered poolside at a hotel in Westlake Village, an upper-income community about 40 miles west of downtown Los Angeles.
Source: Associated PressTags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction
Jerry Brown
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Oct. 20, 2010“We expect to be able to match the [Meg] Whitman campaign in terms of both TV and radio advertising,” said Steve Glazer, Brown’s campaign manager. “We saved about $12 million for the final 14 days. We believe we’ll be more than competitive.”
Source: PolitiCal (Los Angeles Times)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Assertion of fact, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 15, 2010At the very beginning of this campaign, we laid out a strategy to win. What I can do here is get my message out and give Californians a choice. I’m up against a career politician who has one of the best-known names in California politics. This is his 14th election. I’m happy to be where we are. This is a dead-heat race. It’s going to be a dogfight to the end.
Source: The Caucus (New York Times)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Policy or issue position, Prediction, Quotable
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 14, 2010"It's a big undertaking," Whitman said of the governor's race, "but it's going really well. We're going to win this."
Source: KGET-17 (NBC - Bakersfield)Tags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction
Meg Whitman
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Oct. 13, 2010"Over the final three weeks, between Brown and us, we'll running enough ads to practically saturate the California airwaves," said one Whitman insider. ‘It's going to be a knife fight."
Source: Fox NewsTags: Campaigns and politics, Prediction, Quotable
