Posted on 09/01/2010 8:31:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At this point in a re-election race, secure Democratic senators in Democratic-leaning states generally poll at a comfortable 55 percent or better in the matchup against a Republican opponent (Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland are examples).
But that’s not the case in California, where three-term Sen. Barbara Boxer will square off against GOP challenger Carly Fiorina in the pair's first debate Wednesday night. An average of the five most recent public polls shows Boxer getting 45 percent to Fiorina’s 41 percent. About 12 percent of respondents remain undecided.
President Barack Obama has trekked to California twice in recent months to help raise funds for Boxer, and Vice President Joe Biden held a fundraiser for her in July.
“I don't travel for just anybody,” Obama told attendees at a San Francisco fundraiser in May. “But when it comes to Barbara Boxer, I'm a lot like many of you, which is, if she calls and she says, ‘I need some help,’ then we're going to give her some help...”
While not as astonishing as Republican Sen. Scott Brown’s upset win last January in Massachusetts, a Fiorina victory would be dramatic. California hasn't elected a Republican senator since 1988. That was also the last time a Republican presidential candidate carried California.
Democrats enjoy an edge in party registration, with about 7.5 million Democrats to 5.2 million Republicans in the state; there are 3.4 million registered independents.
Boxer won her seat in 1992, lifted on the wave led by Bill Clinton in what was then dubbed “the Year of the Woman.” She beat conservative Los Angeles television and radio pundit Bruce Herschensohn by about half a million votes, or 5 percentage points.
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I listened to the whole debate tonite. Carly wiped up the floor with Boxer. Boxer was out of her league. It was fun to watch.
Yea, Boxer is a rambling idiot.
It’s an article from MSNBC, and I thought that Fiorina just kicked Boxer (sorry, Senator Boxer’s) butt in the debate. Now, we will see how much that matters in our media. Probably not too much...
I can’t wait until the day when people call her “Former Senator” Boxer.
I listened to the whole debate tonite. Carly wiped up the floor with Boxer. Boxer was out of her league. It was fun to watch.
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That is good to hear.
Oh, one other thing..... HP is evil for not taking it for the team like Butters.
Fiorina presents as an attractive, bright, capable, pleasant woman. Boxer? A rancid crank.
$$$$ and abortion rights....that’s how she got elected and stays in office.
She is really not that bright, but she rollows the dem line and gets help from the party.
She got elected by a bunch of even dimmer bulbs.
Boxer has a way of taking out the opposition in the final days of an election.
Generally she's had very mediocre competition who did not have the convictions to stand for anything (At least Mrs. Fiorina stood her ground for pro-Life, 2nd Amendment, and repeal of the so-called 'Assault Weapon' ban into tonight's debate).
Pre-internet days the media was able to tightly control the 'news' and shape Ms. Boxer as 'moderate' to main-stream (4 months of non-stop propaganda prior to the election had its effect).
And of course Ms. Boxer would always drop some slanderous 'surprise' the weekend before the election. The media would play it up - and after the election we'd find out the accusations were false or ill-founded.
With the MSM weakened, and with a competent opposition candidate - I think (and pray) that Ms. Boxer's days in the Capitol are numbered.
Between now and November the MSM's energy will be devoted to discouraging conservative voters from showing up to the polls, and encouraging leftists to vote... That will be their constant drumbeat.
You can't fix stupid.
I guess a dim bulb looks pretty good in the dark of CA. :-)
I watched the debate. It was a knockout! Fiorina won. But, it’s one thing to win a debate and another to win an election. Fiorina was workman-like in demolishing boxer but California voters are just plain stupid!
Local SF media is basically declaring BB the winner.
The DNC and the MSM are identical twins.
Here’s the biased AP view - 2 of them - via the SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/01/politics/p213538D05.DTL&type=politics
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/01/politics/p050027D32.DTL&type=politics
Sounds like Boxer was way out ahead.../S
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