Posted on 07/08/2010 9:30:08 AM PDT by MissesBush
(Reuters) - Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer's edge over Republican challenger Carly Fiorina has dwindled to 3 points as she seeks re-election in November, with more Californians now holding an unfavorable view of the three-term senator, a poll released on Thursday showed.
Boxer, who once held a 30-point lead over Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and a political novice, is now ahead by a margin of only 47 percent to 44 percent, the Field Poll found.
One of President Barack Obama's staunchest allies who has become a powerful liberal voice in the Senate since she was first elected in 1992, Boxer is facing her toughest challenge yet, as a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment sweeps the nation.
California, normally a reliably Democratic state suffering from double-digit unemployment and a budget deficit running into tens of billions of dollars, is considered a potential bellwether in the coming congressional elections.
The Field Poll found that since January more Californians have become disgruntled with Boxer, with 52 percent of likely voters holding an unfavorable view of her, compared with just 41 percent who regard her favorably.
Boxer's ratings have dropped to some of the lowest levels of her 18-year career in the Senate, with only 42 percent of registered voters approving of her job performance and 43 percent disapproving.
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I know. No one is ever conservative enough for people like you. Because she worked for the McCain campaign, and not Obama’s, she’s a raging leftist. Please. And what special insights do you have to tell you she’s a Marxist-Leninist? Because Chuck Devore said so? He’s given it up. I suggest you do too. You’re hurting the country by helping supress conservative turn out by fighting Republican candidates. We’re in sight of taking back Congress from the real socialists and absolutists like you just keep insisting GOP civil war is the way to solve the nation’s problems rather than fighting the real enemy, the Obama cabal and his minions in Congress.
As I recall Babs racked up 100,000 in bad checks.If she was one of the littel peopl she would be behind bars !
Throw Boxer out.
As I recall Babs racked up 100,000 in bad checks.If she was one of the littel peopl she would be behind bars !
Good analogy.
Replacing Boxer with someone who will vote as she did 80% of the time is not my idea of fixing things.
If you like Olympia Snowe, Arlen Spector, Lindsey Graham, John McCain,... you’re going to love Carly.
Here’s one more Republican that will defeat us from within.
Anyone that doesn’t recognize this, is delusional.
Do I like Boxer? Of course not. She’s unfit to sit as a U. S. Senator. And so is Fiorina.
I’m not quite sure what your point was, but it was a colorful post. LOL, sorry...
She’s still 1 of 100 that will count as a vote toward who has the majority in the Senate, which effects committee chairs, etc.
And I’ll take your nominal 20% improvement in that seat to get Boxer OUT.
And what data do you have that she'll vote 80% like Boxer or be another Olympia Snowe? You're just inventing nonsense out of whole cloth here. Like someone else pointed out on this thread, conservatives were pissed when Jan Brewer took over as governor in AZ. That turned out pretty well in teh end. I think it's inarguable that Fiorina will be far and a way a more reliable conservative vote in the Senate than Barbara Boxer who is a down the line leftist. What's your plan?? Just not vote in November and thus help Boxer win?? My gosh, give it up already...
“At least Fiorina is our bimbo, not their bimbo.”
Well said, I agree 100%.
First reading of the title I thought it said, "Democratic senator's head shrinks in California."
And I was all thinking their heads couldn't shrink anymore.
“Replacing Boxer with someone who will vote as she did 80% of the time is not my idea of fixing things.”
What incredible hyperbole. And you know this how? Come up with 80% of how Fiorina will vote just like Boxer. You’ve cloned part of Fiorina’s brain as your own to know how she will vote? Geez.....
EXACTLY!!!!
Boxer is as evil as they come. I will gladly take the lesser of two evils from the wasteland known as California.
Anyone who thinks anyone other than a RINO can win in California is delusional. Even if she only supports us 20% of the time; that's better than never. Did I mention it's C A L I F O R N I A we're talking about here?
“...the media bias continues: its not ANTI-INCUMBENT...its ANTI-DEMOCRAT!”
Here in the blue part of Ohio, as far as I can tell, it’s anti-incumbent. GWB didn’t show fiscal discipline. The people around here voted Obama to punish the Republicans as much as anything else. (Bad idea, I know, but that’s what people tell me).
I have had quite a few people tell me they are voting anti-incumbent this fall.
You must live in a very miserable little world, but I suppose you are happy there.
I do not know her but she destroyed diane sawyer on abc last week... and she sounded like Reagan and she avoided the “get you” questions and answered as a Conservative. She can’t be that stupid.
LLS
Is this a person you think Conservatives should raise $250,000 dollars plus for?
http://www.hotr.us/data/mccainagain.html
Carly is much less wrinkly, she will win.
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