November 07, 2010|By Shane Goldmacher | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Mike Murphy, chief strategist to Meg Whitman, blamed public-employee unions and California’s status as “a very blue state” for the GOP gubernatorial candidate’s loss to Democrat Jerry Brown on Tuesday, even as she spent a national record $142 million of her own money trying to beat him.
Voters rebuffed Whitman and the entire GOP ticket in California, as the party lost every statewide race — with one, for attorney general, still too close to call — while Republicans swept into power across the nation.
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