Can We Get a Third Opinion?

Headline from Sunday morning’s Sacramento Bee:

Analyst: Whitman, not blue state, to blame for her loss

Headline from Sunday morning’s San Francisco Chronicle:

 

GOP brand pronounced dead in deep-blue California

 

So which was it? Doomed candidate? Doomed party?

 

Here are the links to the Chron and Bee stories, so you can decide for yourself . . .