Los Angeles news online: Brown's low-key campaign confounds pundits who urged him to spend more Brown's low-key campaign confounds pundits who urged him to spend more ================================================================================ politics on 30/08/2010 07:00:00 Political analysts who wanted the Democrat to press Meg Whitman hard now express admiration for his ability to stay even in the polls. Democrat Jerry Brown is running for governor, but voters in California might not know it. Since winning the primary in June, he has spent almost nothing, has rarely appeared on the campaign trail and has yet to air a single ad against Republican rival Meg Whitman.