Success and Failure on the Campaign Trail

This past summer and fall I had the pleasure of interning on Meg Whitman’s Campaign for governor. There were many exciting moments throughout the campaign and it was very interesting to see how campaigns are ran and how the day-to-day events are scheduled and carried out. I will not spend very much time on my partisan opinion’s about Jerry Brown, but I will just say that he is not the best candidate and is not what California needs right now. What’s tragic is that a sub-par candidate such as Jerry Brown who has no vision or plan for California can win in this state almost merely on the fact that he is a Democrat.

I cannot be too upset over the elections results though. The Republicans gained 60 seats in the House, which gives the GOP the majority. The GOP also gained 6 seats in the Senate. Finally, the GOP also faired well in governor’s races, netting 7 seats. Hopefully the changes that have been made in Congress across the country will help bring this country out of the economic crisis and lead us to success.