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.
I don't disagree with you but take a moment and analyze just who those swing voters are.
They are not college educated CA residents in general, and especially not college-educated women. Women will not vote for Fiorina because of her sex. They will stick with Boxer. Blue collar women will not vote for her either because of their sex.
For a Republican to win, the ones in play are MEN. White and Hispanic men, not college educated, who are Democrats or generally vote Democratic. Men who like football and the military. Men who voted for Reagan in droves in the 1980s because he wasn't a sissy like Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.
This especially includes Hispanic men. They are not as liberal as everyone assumes and will vote for a "regular guy" as long as he is authentic. Perfect example: Chuck DeVore. That's why Hispanic men make such great US Marines when they are 18.
Do not assume that the default position for California would be a liberal Republican. I think Chuck DeVore would be far more competitive than perennial candidate (and loser) Tom Campbell and Carly ("I couldn't be bothered to vote until recently") Fiorina.