Earlier today Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner put out a statement (h/t to the Sacramento Bee) endorsing the entire GOP ticket for the General Election.  Most significantly this included his endorsement and support of Meg Whitman, his former opponent in June’s epic primary battle.

Poizner had not endorsed Whitman, which frankly was not a big surprise to many.  We are all too familiar with campaigns that go negative — and the Poizner vs. Whitman battle royale was no exception.  It is often times very hard for the loser of a campaign with a lot of attack ads (and there were plenty to go around on both sides of this fracas) to circle in behind the winner.   It often can take some time for wounds to heal, or at least to not hurt as much.

That said, when you take into account that everything was done on such a grand scale with the Whitman campaign…  Whitman didn’t just attack Poizner — she pummeled him with more negative attack mail than — well, more than I have ever seen in my two decades plus of involvement.

Exactly how long does it take to put that kind of (very effective) negative campaigning behind you?  Apparently it takes three months…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.