The deadline for registering for the primary passed a while ago. Right now it’s a three way race. Former California governor and current state attorney general Jerry Brown officially announced his candidacy and is running unopposed in the democratic primary. You can find his campaign web site here.
The Republican primary is a two-way race, albeit one of them is far in front. Former CEO of eBay Meg Whitman is leading in the polls and is possibly more popular than Brown in a two-way race. Her website can be found here. The state insurance commissioner Steve Poizner is also running in the Republican primary. His website can be found here.
There has not been a lot of discussion between the candidates, but there are plenty of attacks to complement the advocacy pieces. Whitman’s campaign created Can’t Trust Steve to attack her opponent in the primary and cast Poizner as a career politician and not a conservative. Whitman has two attack websites devoted to her. Level the Playing Field attacks Whitman for not being forthright about her background and policy positions and is trying to pressure her to be more open to the public. Poizner’s campaign created Real Meg Whitman to attack her not only for dodging questions about her positions but also for not being a conservative candidate. Finally, the Republican Governors’ Association has a new site called What’s Brown Done? to analyze Brown’s political record and to petition that Brown release records of his time of governor to the public (Brown opted under a part of the Public Records Act to lock the gubernatorial records away for fifty years or his death, whichever comes later).
The attack sites as well as the campaign sites deserve analysis on their own. Until then, stay on top of the news.
