Every day’s a bad hair day for Barbara Boxer, but Thursday was also a bad poll day for the embattled California Democrat.
Reuters reports the remarkable turnaround for Republican candidate Carly Fiorina:
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.
What’s even more surprising is that Fiorina has moved up so quickly while still remaining relatively unknown to California voters. Of course, we may be looking at that from the wrong perspective, because it may well be that Boxer has moved down because she isn’t unknown to the voters.
Remarkably, the brilliant Ms. Boxer decided to launch her campaign with a speech touting job creation in a state with a 12.4% unemployment rate, third highest in the nation.
Her days of telling people to call her “Senator” may be numbered.
Source: Reuters.com
This post was last modified on July 8, 2010
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I'm movin' out of California at the end of the month, but will continue to support Carly in her quest to get rid of Madam Boxer (I have a different "S" word for her).
Haven't we heard this speech over and over and over again by ________ (fill in the Democrat blank). Tiresome and ineffective, but I don't hold out much hope that California voters will make a change.
Fiorina definitely will receive the "not Boxer" vote, which should not be confused with the "we want Carly" vote.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Let's hope...