Meg Whitman’s opponent in the California gubernatorial primary, Steve Poizner, is out with a new, brutal ad tying her directly to Goldman Sachs. Stock up on popcorn, because you can expect this line of attack to continue whether she wins the Republican primary or not.

I don’t know if this will derail Marco Rubio in the Republican primary – if I had to guess it won’t – but the biggest papers in Florida just looked back at his record and found a huge slush fund for both political and personal activities, maintained through special interest donations.

The snow has been falling in the Sierras for months now, but Jerry Brown, who once said that would be the marker for when he would announce a gubernatorial run, has been silent. Apparently, the Sierras just got chillier and snowier.