Back in March, California state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner was a man without a future. Down by as much as 50 points to former eBay executive Meg Whitman in the California Republican gubernatorial primary, Poizner it seemed couldn’t find a way to stop the mighty Whitman’s march to the general election. That is, until a group of Democrats came to his rescue. Now, thanks to a line of attack on Whitman launched by Democratic activists — who would prefer to face Poizner in the fall — that highlighted Whitman’s connections to Goldman Sachs, Poizner has risen from the dead.
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