Meg Whitman '78 wins California Republican primary

In her quiet plot to take over the world, former CEO and President of eBay Meg Whitman '78 won yesterday the Republican candidacy in California's gubernatorial election this fall. Whitman defeated state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner with 64% of the vote compared to his 26%. Some news sources call this a landslide. To me it sounds like California hasn't subscribed to grade deflation.Her win comes after she spent $80 million ($71 million of which were her own) in the race and made the primary the costliest in Californian history, which would have made it awkward if she hadn't won, because, dude, that's like two Whitman Colleges. The victory also makes Whitman the first woman to ever hold the Republican nomination for California's governor position.Oh, right, and before we forget, to save the media the trouble, we'll just let you know now: Whitman's senior thesis was titled The Marketing of American Consumer Products in Western Europe and was 83 pages. No word on her report card, but she graduated, says Wikipedia, with honors. So that's fun.Also fun: If Whitman wins, she will be the one one of two Princeton-educated governors in the United States, and will be head of a state that is severely screwed and running a $20 billion deficit. So hopefully Whitman can market some Californian products to Western Europe, which also slowly collapses under the heavy weight of its debt.At any rate, Whitman will face Democratic ex-governor and California Attorney General Jerry Brown in the gubernatorial election. Good luck Meg, and cheers -- here's to having another Princetonian be important.(image via solidprinciples.com)(Ed.: An earlier version of this post stated Whitman's victory in the fall would make her the one governor from Princeton, but we forgot Mitch Daniels from Indiana.)