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The Spectacle Blog
A new Field Poll in the California Senate race shows Sen. Barbara Boxer in trouble, clinging to a narrow 47 percent to 44 percent lead over Republican challenger Carly Fiorina. The San Francisco Chronicle has more details on the poll, which also found that, “her job approval rating is among the lowest that Field has measured for her since she was first elected to the Senate in 1992: 43 percent of registered voters disapprove of her performance while 42 percent approve. Among likely voters, 48 percent disapprove and 42 percent approve.”
NBC’s First Read further notes that:
This could be the first election (Boxer’s) faced without coattails at the top of the ticket. In 1992 and 2004, she had the presidential coattails driving turnout. And in 1998, the Gray Davis landslide was a boon to all Democrats in the state. Boxer needs not just help from national Democrats, but she also needs Jerry Brown to improve his prospects.
On the other hand, the Field Poll found that Fiorina is unknown to 37 percent of California voters. The closeness of the current polling, therefore, reflects Boxer’s general unpopularity and the willingness of Californians to vote for a generic alternative. There’s still plenty of time for Boxer to remind voters in the very liberal state of Fiorina’s controversial time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and the conservative positions she took during the primary.
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WendyG| 7.8.10 @ 9:59AM
Sweet!!
Oldefarte| 7.8.10 @ 10:39AM
Hopefully Fiorina [also with Meg Whitman] can win and begin turning California's deplorable economic and political situation in the opposite direction. With a $20 million deficit from decades of socialistic program enactment from that state's liberal moronic congressmen, both of these ladies will have their hands full trying to dig that state out of its fiscal hole, but both are well qualified [from years in the business community] to accompolish same. Fiorina is not given enough credit for the excellent job she did while at HP, when she instituted a diversity product line to their once PRINTER ONLY business model. She had to politically fight one of the Hewletts' founder board member constantly concerning her desire to diversify the company, and eventually paid the political price of losing her job in the process. HP, thanks to her efforts, is now a dominate player in the computer,etc field; and she should be applauded for same, If given the chance, she [and Whitman] can/will eventually turn California's misfortions around!!!!!!
Banjo| 7.8.10 @ 1:02PM
I think you mean $20 billion.
JmsA| 7.8.10 @ 12:00PM
Oldefarte,
From your lips to God's ear.
reasonable doubt| 7.8.10 @ 12:32PM
"Don't call me mam'...call me former Senator Boxer! I worked so hard to abuse your trust"
Missy| 7.8.10 @ 4:32PM
Get out, Barbie!!
jer mynor| 7.9.10 @ 6:03PM
BARBARA "BOXER" WILL BE T.K.O.'d in NOV.