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Chuck discusses the Obama Administration's shameful treatment of America's ally Israel -- and Chuck DeVore's long experience as a staunch friend of the same.

After the SUSA poll came out, Erick and I both wrote in support of Chuck DeVore. I can’t really speak for Erick, but I am sticking with Chuck because I believe he is the right candidate on the issues and the late movement in this race is all going to Chuck DeVore. As the day progressed and the standard arguments fleshed out, I realized that Fiorina and Campbell are both in a bit of trouble going into this last month of the campaign. Fiorina is collapsing in all of the meaningful groups, Campbell has hit his ceiling and will begin...

It looks like Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Carly Fiorina in the California GOP U.S. Senate race is actually a “negative.” It also appears from the latest poll that Californians who care about the abortion issue are supporting Chuck DeVore, even though Fiorina (who supports the appointment of pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and campaigned as “pro-choice” for John McCain in 2008) inexplicably received the California Pro-Life Council endorsement. You want polls to prove that Chuck DeVore is on the way UP and Carly Fiorina is on the way DOWN? Here it is! Poll results from Team DeVore, followed by...

Although the big news has been that Poizner is now within striking distance of Meg Whitman in the CA Gov Republican Primary, I am going to focus on the CA Senate race poll results via SUSA. As I pointed out here (also at my blog), and is now confirmed by SUSA, Chuck DeVore has jumped 5 points in the polls. This positive movement for Chuck DeVore is contrary to the negative movement of Campbell and Fiorina in the 18-49 demographic*, 5 and 10 point drops respectively. This movement, both positive and negative, is a sign of the fluidity and indecision...

(CNN) – A prominent conservative is issuing an ultimatum, essentially telling the candidate he supports to do better in the polls – or lose his support. Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState.com, backs Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in the California Republican senate primary. DeVore is locked in a battle with former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and former Rep. Tom Campbell for the right to face Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November. Speaking Tuesday with CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, Erickson – a CNN contributor - said he won't support DeVore much longer if the candidate does not improve his political standing....

Senate candidates supported by Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina: _ Marco Rubio, Florida _ Rand Paul, Kentucky _ Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania _ Chuck DeVore, California _ Ken Buck, Colorado _ Mike Lee, Utah _ Michael Williams, Texas _ Marlin Stutzman, Indiana (lost in primary)

From the day that Sarah Palin endorsed Carly Fiorina she’s gotten a lot of criticism from the right that she picked the more ‘moderate’ republican candidate in the California Senate race to beat Barbara Boxer. Today however Rick Santorum decided to step into her corner and defend her pick.

After Sarah Palin made a pitch last week for former HP CEO Carly Fiorina in the California GOP Senate primary, her Facebook followers jumped on her en masse, making it clear they won't stand for even a perceived softening of her politics. The blowback made headlines -- but it also made us wonder what the dialogue looks like after a typical Palin post. To find out, we gave a random sampling of 500-plus comments on Palin's Facebook page a close reading.

...Campbell said that if he were in the Senate, he would vote “no” on the nomination — with the caveat that he would consider any additional information that emerges in the Senate hearings. Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore would also vote against Kagan’s nomination if he were in the Senate, his spokesman said, adding that DeVore would release a statement detailing his reasons later this evening. Fiorina said she would reserve judgment until the vetting is completed. “Given Ms. Kagan’s brief litigation experience, lack of any judicial experience and in light of some of the information publicly available about her...

Following is a special message from Chuck DeVore regarding the Sarah Palin endorsement of Carly Fiorina. I just finished strong in a one hour debate with Tom Campbell and Carly Fiorina (to be broadcast Sunday morning -- we'll send you the media analysis when it comes in). But before I went to bed tonight I wanted to take a moment to type out some of my thoughts on the day’s news and provide you with an update on my campaign. If you didn’t hear, Sarah Palin posted a Facebook message earlier today about the California Republican primary. She bashed Tom...

“If Ms. Fiorina is what passes for conservative in Washington today, then the establishment has veered sadly to the left,” writes Arianna Packard, grand daughter of David Packard, the co-founder of HP, in a letter RedState has obtained a copy of. Back at the turn of the 21st century, David Woodley Packard, the son of the founder, went to war against Carly Fiorina over the HP-Compaq merger. Vanity Fair documented the merger wars. It was not pretty. Both the Hewletts and the Packards opposed the merger. The bitterness from the merger wars lingers on. Ms. Packard’s letter, written to Senators...

One Month This is an urgent "all hands on deck" call for help. With so much at stake we need you to act immediately to help us meet our fundraising goals in the next two weeks.Our last FEC deadline before the primary is May 19th.Will you make a donation of $25 today to help meet our online goals?Thousands of supporters like you have provided incredible momentum in this race to defeat Barbara Boxer. I have the endorsement of almost 60 percent of California’s Republican office holders.I’ve been endorsed by national conservative leaders like Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Congressman Tom...

Sarah Palin's endorsement of Establishment candidate Carly Fiorina over grassroots conservative favorite Chuck Devore triggered some grumbling among her supporters and offered an opportunity for Mike Huckabee -- who backs Devore -- to take a bite out of her right flank. Huckabee has been waging a kind of passive-aggressive new media campaign on the issue. Soon after Palin's announcement, he changed his Facebook status to read, "Just wanted to reiterate my support today for the strongest, proven conservative in the California Senate Race: Chuck DeVore."

Many Sarah Palin devotees seem shocked that Sarah Palin endorsed Carly Fiorina for Senator. They believed Sarah Palin to be representative of the Tea Party–who all endorse Chuck DeVore. Sarah Palin is first, a Republican. Sarah Palin has shown loyalty to John McCain and Carly Fiorina is a friend to John. Perhaps she feels it’s only right. Sarah Palin speaks at Tea Party events and likes certain principles, but by her own admission she does not represent the Tea Party. In fact, she arrived late to the Tea Party–it had been growing and thriving for months before her first speech...

CA-SEN: Fiorina and the GOP Launch Last-Minute Back-Door Attack on Chuck DeVore Posted on 09 May 2010 by admin   Carly Fiorina: Win at all costs?  California Senate Race 2010:  Carly Fiorina and the GOP Launch Last-Minute Back-door Attack on Chuck DeVoreBy Jane Jamison, Copyright 2010, UNCOVERAGE.net Apparently, the Republican party “establishment” in California has forgotten about Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.”  It was postulated by Reagan after he was viciously attacked in the primary for the California governor’s race in the 1960s.  (Read his whole speech about it here.)What is happening right now...

"Short answer to your question is yes, it is unconstitutional and for that reason, I signed a pledge to repeal Obamacare four months ago. Carly Fiorina signed it the day after it passed and Tom Campbell still signed the pledge. To go back to the previous question, though, I think it's very important what's going on in Afghanistan. It's very important that we understand that the Taliban and Al-qaida does not present a existential threat to the United States. They don't have an industrial base. They don't have armies. They're terrorists. Now, because of the fact that Afghanistan has no...

The blog then supposedly “linked” to what it called CA Attorney General Complaint Against Chuck Devore. Click on that link and what is found are two letters, one to California attorney general Jerry Brown (who is a Democrat running for governor) and another to the Federal Election Commission. The letters request that an investigation be started into Chuck DeVore’s purported misuse of government funds by having his volunteer campaign staff on the payroll of his state assemblyman’s office. But this is where the “independent citizens’ group” story unravels: –First of all, these letters are REQUESTS that DeVore be investigated. There...

In a different era, Chuck DeVore might have been a shoo-in for the Republican Party nomination for U.S. Senate. His conservative credentials are nearly impeccable. For six years, his voting record has been as uniformly pleasing to the right as might reasonably be expected for a member of the state Assembly, where integrity routinely is traded for votes. The Irvine lawmaker's endorsement by the California Republican Assembly and emergence as Tea Party darling only solidified his bona fides. He's pro-life and pro-business, against big government and against big taxes. He's for job growth by having government leave private employers alone,...

L.A. Times Declines to Endorse Sen. Boxer in California Primary The editors at the biggest newspaper on the West Coast, who were expected to endorse Sen. Barbara Boxer in her primary campaign against token opposition, have decided to remain neutral, saying the California Democrat doesn't display enough intellectual firepower. The editors at the biggest newspaper on the West Coast, who were expected to endorse Sen. Barbara Boxer in her primary campaign against token opposition, have decided to remain neutral, saying the California Democrat doesn't display enough intellectual firepower. The Los Angeles Times on Friday declined to offer endorsements in all...

Sarah Palin has angered fans by endorsing former Hewlett Packard chief Carly Fiorina instead of a more conservative challenger in her bid to become the Republican candidate aiming to unseat California Senator Barbara Boxer. Palin, a darling of the right-wing, announced on her Facebook page on Thursday that she was backing Fiorina as she attempts to win the Republican ticket for the election in California later this year. The 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate said she was supporting Fiorina as a "Commonsense Conservative" on the basis of her "fiscal conservatism rooted in real life experience." "We can trust Carly to do...