2010 California Primary Results

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California Republicans took an historic step Tuesday by nominating two wealthy businesswomen to challenge Democratic icons for governor and U.S. Senate, setting in motion an election season of big-money campaigns and high drama in the nation's most populous state.

Meg Whitman, the billionaire former eBay chief executive, easily won the Republican primary for California governor while former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina was nominated to challenge Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in the fall. (For the whole story click HERE.)

100.0% ( 22,894 of 22,894 ) precincts partially
or fully reporting as of June 9, 2010, at 8:02 a.m.

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Democratic Richard William Aguirre 71,493 4.1% Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown 1,478,752 84.1% Lowell Darling 30,135 1.7% Vibert Greene 41,004 2.3% Charles "Chuck" Pineda, Jr. 71,484 4.1% Peter Schurman 26,794 1.5% Joe Symmon 39,998 2.2%

Republican Bill Chambers 25,574 1.5% Douglas R. Hughes 19,219 1.1% Ken Miller 25,322 1.4% Lawrence "Larry" Naritelli 38,163 2.3% Robert C. Newman II 27,462 1.6% Steve Poizner 461,823 26.9% David Tully-Smith 18,310 1.0% Meg Whitman 1,101,528 64.2%

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Democratic
Richard William Aguirre 71,493 4.1%
Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown 1,478,752 84.1%
Lowell Darling 30,135 1.7%
Vibert Greene 41,004 2.3%
Charles "Chuck" Pineda, Jr. 71,484 4.1%
Peter Schurman 26,794 1.5%
Joe Symmon 39,998 2.2%



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Bill Chambers 25,574 1.5%
Douglas R. Hughes 19,219 1.1%
Ken Miller 25,322 1.4%
Lawrence "Larry" Naritelli 38,163 2.3%
Robert C. Newman II 27,462 1.6%
Steve Poizner 461,823 26.9%
David Tully-Smith 18,310 1.0%
Meg Whitman 1,101,528 64.2%

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[MaeBayB]

04:23 AM on 06/10/2010

HmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMM..Sooooooooooooooooooooooo the winner is ...MONEY!!!!!?...Meg.!!!!!?....MONEY!!!?.....Meg!!!!?....it seems to be a photo finish between MONEY and MEG ........too close to calll...

[Xenopus]

07:42 PM on 06/09/2010

What on earth are these woman's experience for running a government? Meg Whitman hasn't voted for over 20 years. Carly, like Sarah, is a failure at actually working, they make money but not through brain power, they are exploiters. Meg's business was successful, but still, $80 million to buy a position. At least Boxer and Brown have public service experience. Again, money is the deciding factor......so Republican.

[fem56]

06:53 PM on 06/09/2010

I think it is actually an advantage to be a woman in politics at the current time. I know women who will go down the ballot and vote for women unless they know they disagree with them. Some women think that men have messed things up so much that women must be better. I know other women where it is more of a women's issue. I don't know any men who think this way. Of course Meg Whitman is also very articulate, charming and rich which doesn't hurt matters, especially the rich part. I have a feeling that women and men are probably equally good at fixing things and messing things up. Just ask any parent.

[MARYHOBE]

06:37 PM on 06/09/2010

The women of California should take a good look at the policies espoused by Ms. Fiorina as regards women's rights. I think there are quite a few items of concern here. This is hard-core, true believer, extremist and the loudest noise we hear has to be vote, vote, vote. The next group that needs to have a look should be the working men and women of California, cause there are a few issues here also. A real free trader, Ms. Forina. Loves to out source.

[VeroucaSalt]

03:43 PM on 06/09/2010

So why is it that the general population was limited to ~$2600 max for a donation to a single candidate for the presidential election, but these billionaires can throw ALL of their fortune at their own campaign? I just don't get it.

[cbelle]

03:17 PM on 06/09/2010

Um, where are the pictures of Jerry Brown?

[tahoegal]

03:17 PM on 06/09/2010

Well, Meg "I hardly ever vote" Whitman won the election. Makes me ashamed of my conservative California friends who voted for a woman who spent $80M of her own money to buy the election, admitted she hardly ever voted (can you say unpatriotic?), and probably believes that the state is like a company. You can't treat your constituents like crap and then fire them, as at EBay. What a load.....

[Patricia Russell]

06:04 PM on 06/09/2010

seems like a woman with a lot of problems.........father issues, maybe abandonment issues

[Dennis]

02:39 PM on 06/09/2010

Why is it, here in our proud democracy, that not being rich effectively bars you from successfully running for public office while being rich assures that you can?

[MrCrowley]

10:06 AM on 08/01/2010

And on top of that, how do Republicans put CEOs as candidates and still get the populist vote? Boggles the mind.

[GrownupStewie]

02:20 PM on 06/09/2010

OMG I am soooo thrilled 16 and 17 failed......too bad 14 passed that sucks a bunch....

well at least 16 failed, PG&E can suck it, I loved how they spent so much money....

and 17 failing is great for the rest of the insurance industry because mercury casualty would have had a monopoly...

[Meggirl]

03:50 PM on 06/09/2010

I feel the same. I'm happy that 16 & 17 failed, but am disappointed that 14 passed. Maybe it sounds like a good idea at first, but it effectively eliminates 3rd party candidates from the general election.

[caffeineod]

05:03 PM on 06/09/2010

Well, don't forget that money PG &Espent will be coming from you in reality....

[Rinehart]

01:59 PM on 06/09/2010

Unbelievable that voters chose Fiorina over Tom Campbell. Years ago they chose Bruce Herchinson over Campbell. Campbell was responsible enough to cut TV ads instead of spending money he didn't have and the FISCAL responsibility crowd ignored it for a spender.
You aren't serious

[caffeineod]

05:15 PM on 06/09/2010

I tend to agree with you, but face it, Campbell rubs people the wrong way even though there is no doubt he is an ok guy. He strikes many as being a closeted gay guy which may or may not be true, but his public persona is more Al Gore than Bill Clinton....He spends so much time worrying about the cameras he failed to project leadership.....people in Ca vote on perceptions, rarely on issues unless the media makes hot button issues a focal point....He just is not camera ready....and, to be honest, that is a shame...look who defeated him! I hope Barbara Boxer still has the fight in her that got her to where she is today...the best senator in decades that California has had! Boxer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skeptique]

01:55 PM on 06/09/2010

There needs to be another rating category: 'shockingly predictable'.

[rtist45]

01:49 PM on 06/09/2010

Then I guess it is true...you can buy anything. .... even if you have the teeth that could eat an apple through a picket fence.

[blukazoo]

01:40 PM on 06/09/2010

So, Meg Whitman is so unlikeable that it cost her $85 dollars per vote--and that's just so she can run for office. I wonder how much she'd pay people personally for the position?

[dirigentin]

02:33 PM on 06/09/2010

She's an egotist of the highest order, and a walking contradiction -- how does a "fiscal conservative" spend at least $80 million OF HER OWN ASSETS towards buying an election?

[Meggirl]

03:47 PM on 06/09/2010

Not to mention, that's just $80 million on the PRIMARY. Just wait until the general election...

[starrianna]

09:27 PM on 06/09/2010

Well, her standard rate was between $85 and $135 an hour when she was working the streets on her way up.

[ThinkCreeps]

01:30 PM on 06/09/2010

It's mine. All mine. Cackle. Cackle.

Now, only those pesky voters stand between me and absolute power. Nyep. Nyep. Nyep.

[SoapBox37]

01:21 PM on 06/09/2010

NutMeg Whitman and Hardly Fiorina are NOT the answer for CA.

They want what they want...to control...to have power...to have money...and to give money to the mega-ultra rich.

We may be a mess now...but if DimWhitman gets in, look out.

...one of her solutions to getting jobs in CA? Get rid of 40,000 state union members.

Ya right.