Meg Whitman, 2010. (AP/Mark J. Terrill) Meg Whitman spent a staggering $175 million of her own eBay fortune in her unsuccessful bid to become governor of California. While flattered by her attentions, the roughly 3 million people who voted for her may now be thinking of what she could have bought them instead of the robocalls and mailers. With the $57 she spent on each vote, Whitman could have bought each voter . . . A pair of Old Navy jeans and a Gap T-shirt A dozen Double-Double cheeseburgers from California's iconic In-N-Out chain A commemorative plaque from your new World Series Champion San Francisco Giants A trip to the Medieval Times in Buena Park, Calif. (dinner, jousting, costume rental; tax not included) A skein of yarn, enough to knit a pair of socks, made from the underdown of the Alaskan musk ox, the warmest fiber in the world
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