Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina Neck and Neck in CA: I know, it is Rasmussen's poll

A close Senate race in California?
By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
07/28/09 10:20 AM EDT

Excerpt:
Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that California Senator Barbara Boxer leads possible Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO and 2008 campaigner for John McCain, by only 45%-41%. That’s a pretty stunning result. The only other public poll conducted pairing these two, conducted by Field in February, showed Boxer leading 55%-25%. That looks a lot like Boxer’s 2004 58%-38% victory over Republican Bill Jones. The Rasmussen result looks more like Boxer’s 1992 48%-43% victory over Republican Bruce Herschensohn or her California colleague Dianne Feinstein’s 1994 47%-45% victory over Michael Huffington

Today, with the Democratic brand in some trouble (though the Republican brand remains tarnished), candidate recruitment is starting to work in Republicans’ favor. Jim Bunning has bowed to party pressure and is retiring from the seat he barely held in 2004; this spares the Republicans a messy primary between incumbent and challenger. Mark Kirk, after some hesitation, is running in Illinois. Christopher Dodd’s ad buys in Connecticut have not repaired his dreadful number and he is running well behind Republican Rob Simmons. Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to have terrible numbers in Nevada, where as many as half the 2010 voters will never have seen his name on a ballot before. Congressman-at-Large Mike Castle, leading Attorney General Beau Biden in polls in Delaware, seems to be leaning toward making the race. Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter has a primary challenger and runs only even with the man who nearly beat him in the 2004 Republican primary, Pat Toomey. Appointees Bennet and Gillibrand are far from safe in Colorado and New York, although neither seems to have a strong Republican opponent yet. That is also true of Arkansas’s Blanche Lincon.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/51823172.html


Hmm, Carly Fiorina beating Barbara Boxer? And elephants will fly... :eyes:

She's not useating B-Box.

And if they try any shenanigans I can't see B-Box not fighting it.

IOW, bring it.

With 14% undecided, I'd guess that you could add 8-9 to Boxer's total and then MAYBE you'd have a good result.

She'll beat Fiorina by at least 10 points, and that's giving Fiorina lots of credit for possible support from Silicon Valley.

She's my beloved Senator. I'll walk through the desert barefoot in August for Senator Boxer.

progressive like Boxer.

When Carly Fiorina took the helm of Hewlett-Packard, they made two categories of merchandise: the kind of computers that sell primarily on price, and one of the most beloved brands of test and measurement equipment in the world. When Fiorina was kicked out of HP, the part that made serious money had been spun off into Agilent.

Gee, guys...do ya think maybe she got rid of the wrong part?

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You know the word.

That's what she is.

I love my Senator Boxer.

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would have been that Boxer wouldn't be in trouble.

After she totally corrupted and destroyed HP, no corporation would touch her again.

lies and incompetence. She wanted mccain-palin, afterall.

...Carly will be lucky to get one vote.

I think that could be the straw in the camel's back in Orange County and moderate areas as well. It tee'd me off personally because I think it showed bad form. I think people are going to start voting for candidates more, and party less, and she may be the first casualty of that.

slammed McCain and Palin" they can never run a corporation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBMFEM6JJM&feature=related

by this piece of shit.

Boxer's one of the more leftish senators and I strongly support her (unlike Feinstein, for whom I'd vote while holding my nose). At the same time, she doesn't have much charisma or obvious warmth, which makes a lot of more casual voters go "meh" at this stage and costs her in the polls this far out. I suppose that Harry Alford's racebaiting horseshit isn't helping her polls just now, either. All the same it beggars the imagination that deep-blue California would send her packing. Democrats who are saying "meh" now will still vote, and California Republicans will be less than enthusiastic for a moderate like Fiorina, just as they failed to come through for Ed Zschau, who lost to incumbent Sen. Alan Cranston in 86.

McCain's campaign tanked a little bit more. I wouldn't waste my my powder but Republicans are stupid.

She must be defeated at all costs!

She stinks.

There is no way.

Carly Fiorina is about as popular in California as the swine flu.

It's not happening.

in recent polling Dodd is no longer running well behing Simmons-the gap between the two has closed to within the margin of error of the polls.

I'd take this story with a grain of salt.