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Anchor Diane Sawyer's trip to Los Angeles for ABC allowed her to file an in person follow-up to Tuesday's primary elections. She sat down with Jerry Brown, the Democratic candidate for Governor of California and former incumbent, who matches up against Meg Whitman, former boss of eBay. Brown had little to suggest about how to handle the state's $20bn fiscal deficit--cutting his own and others' perks might be a start--but he was less vague about lashing into his November opponent. He likened Whitman's spending of $80m of her own money to get her message out to the "Ministry of Information in a totalitarian country…You can dominate the airwaves, radio and television and in the mail, just by buying it; not just for a few weeks but for months on end."
As for the other primary results, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell was in Little Rock to cover the "biggest surprise" of the night, as incumbent Blanche Lincoln won renomination for the Democratic line for the Senate from Arkansas. Despite Lincoln's survival, ABC's Jonathan Karl generalized that "it was another good day for insurgent candidates." Karl further contradicted his point about insurgents by pointing to the impact of a pair of powerhouse endorsements from party leaders as decisive: Palin Power in South Carolina and a Clinton Clincher in Arkansas.
According to Karl, even the victory by Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle in the race for the Republican line in the Nevada Senate race was no grass roots success. "Her campaign was going nowhere until big money conservative groups jumped into the race," he commented, pointing to the inside-the-Beltway think tank Club For Growth.
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