Fiorina has major flaws, the first of which that she hasn’t bothered to vote during most general elections throughout her life. Boxer will savage her with that fact.
Second, I am guessing that Fiorina will be a lousy debater. She’ll get a deer-in-the-headlights look when asked a foreign policy question, confuse Sierra Nevada with Sierra Leone.
Third, the voters in play in California (my home state) are not college-educated women, or the women’s vote in general, but blue-collar white and non-white males who might be registered Democratic but are ordinary guys, like sports and the military, etc. Fiorina will not get these male voters excited. These guys are the essence of tea party movement and the Scott Brown voters in Massachusetts.
My favorite candidate, Chuck DeVore, will pick up these votes. He’s a regular guy but also smart, and will run circles around Carly and Boxer. He’s very Reaganesque and is a strong conservative, but not dogmatic.
Suggest you widen your perspective. Check out Chuck’s youtube videos and tell me whether you think he’ll appeal to Joe (or Jose) Sixpack in our state.
Chuck DeVore sounds like a true Conservative.
Tom Campbell is polling well too.
Carly Fiorina has had success in the real world (and in a man’s world). You might have been just alittle to harsh on her. She may just win!
Guessing? I think we are all guessing. I was just thinking that a professional, no nonsense woman would play good against Boxer's emotional, uninformed airhead grandmother act.
Boxer has consistently beaten the standard Republican we have put up against her.
Boxer is a disgrace to California and getting rid of her should be our highest priority. Scott Brown in Mass. is no hardcore conservative. We should use the same strategy here. Our target is the independents and swing voters.
California is in a death spiral, yet nothing short of a complete and utter collapse of the state will cause it to veer hard right in the general election.