[techno]

Nobody can’t say that Devore didn’t have his chance. Perhaps it was a lack of money but I believe that he may be a victim of the Peter Principle: decent assemblyman but poor national candidate for the Senate. He just didn’t catch fire. This is the first poll ever that has shown Devore close to 20%.

And to only get 25% support of the Tea partiers to 42% for Fiorina really tells the real story of the Devore campaign. Chuck put in a lot of time and effort to court the TPM but when it is all said and done they appear to have bought Fiorina’s fiscal conservative message over Devore’s more national defense-social conservative message.

But make no mistake about it, without the deux ex machina presence of Sarah Palin, Campbell might have won the primary by Fiorina and Devore dividing the right of center vote. The Palin endorsement of Carly was a huge political game-changer. Five polls have confirmed this over the last 3-4 weeks since Palin’s endorsement on May 6th.

[RonDog]

And, it looks like MOST of Fiorina's increase has come from Tom Campbell.

Chuck Devore's numbers appear to have INCREASED (slightly) since Governor Palin endorsed Fiorina.

[unseen1]

yes personally I like Devore but he never got out of 3rd place. There comes a time when the writing is on the wall and adults see that reality is reality. devore should man up and throw his support to Carly to ensure Campbell doesn't win it. there is a lesson here too. Fiscal conservative trumps social conservative issues in this election cycle. Defense issues also play a role but fiscal matters trump them all.