Whitman Spent $249 a Minute to Lead Polls

What should an aspiring candidate for governor do if she has never run a campaign before and wants to nearly double her lead in polls as her party’s primary election approaches?

Here is Meg Whitman’s answer: Spend $358,439 a day, $14,935 an hour, $249 a minute.

The billionaire former EBay chief has distributed $27.2 million — almost all of it her own money — to hundreds of businesses and people in the 76 days between Jan. 1 and March 17, a campaign statement filed with the state Monday shows.

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