preliminary look & analysis of the CA Governors race

I am looking closely at the CA 2010 elections for governor and am narrowing my choices to either Meg Whitman or Steve Poizner. Both are very pro-business and at least will attempt to make CA more business friendly. Steve has come out as the more conservative candidate and has taken a firm stand against illegal immgration,to his credit. This may however end up costing him the Hispanic vote which makes up 10 % of the registered voters, and also may cost him some independent voters.
Meg has carefully avoided taking bold stances at all, and has just kept to sprouting standard anti-tax, anti big-gov platitudes, which is typical for the front runner in any election, which she appears to be at this point. She appears to be a socially moderate, fiscally conservative Republican, more like Arnold our current gov though Meg appears to be smarter and a lot more savvy in organizational/business talents. She also has attacked her opponents vigorously with what some would call negative campaign ads, which is ok with me as this is how politics is played these days, and the far left Dems are well known for attack dog smear politics.,
As for the Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, I will oppose him vigorously as he is just a prescription for more Ca leftist/socialist anti-business policies and he will completely kow tow to the public sector unions, which he boosted to a role as political arbiter in CA politics.

I get the feeling that Meg will be the Repub candidate as she has more wider appeal toward the middle and has lined up most of the big backers. She will also get the benefit of big corporate megabucks spending which has become unleashed with the recent supreme court decision. If she does become Brown's opponent she will win because all Californians are sick of the liberal socialist failure of CA and it's careless spending and big tax hikes/looting of taxpayers and want a repub to oppose the tax happy spend and loot Dems who are now in control of CA.