If you've happened to see the paid Meg Whitman for governor infomercial on TV and thought it seemed, well, a little staged, the Steve Poizner campaign has put together a revealing video on the subject.
It's worth a look, if for no other reason than to confirm your suspicions about how politicians these days are packaged and marketed as carefully as any consumer product. Here it is.
This reminds me of virtually all the people that are running for the Republican Central COmmittee this June - they are either related to, work for or worked for the Stricklands. In my district only one candidate seems to not be a relative or an employee but he did know Audra in College.