Barbara Boxer pulling away from Carly Fiorina

[marmar]

from the SF Chronicle:



Democrats are breathing easier in the California Senate race, pointing to a Suffolk University poll out late yesterday showing incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer with a hefty nine point lead over GOP challenger Carly Fiorina, close to the 8 point lead shown in the L.A. Times poll over the weekend.

Republicans will find this harder to dismiss than the LAT poll. Even Rasmussen shows Boxer maintaining a four-point lead. Few voters remain undecided. The esteemed Field Poll is releasing its new data tomorrow.

National Republicans have poured $8 million into the race, and national Democrats have responded with at least $3 million but they're mum on how much more they've added since the last FEC tally Oct. 13, saying it's not their policy to disclose their new spending.

The California Labor Federation yesterday announced its largest ever voter mobilization effort for the final week of the campaign on behalf of Boxer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. The union promised more than 30,000 volunteers would hit the streets and phones.

See our own Joe Garofoli's take on Boxer's Cisco event yesterday. Camp Fiorina has a point on the hypocrisy angle, blasted today by the Wall Street Journal's ed page takes aim today at Boxer's reception at Cisco yesterday, asking if Boxer is "equally outraged" by Cisco's outsourcing as H-P's.

The complete piece is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=75569#ixzz13bOpteZp

[derby378]

1. Thank goodness for small favors

Fiorina as a Senator would have been a joke, hands down.

[xchrom]

2. Awesome. Money they will never get back if they lose. Nt

[ishaneferguson]

3. Carly's record at HP

This is killing old Carly--->

http://online.wsj.com/video/fiorina-im-proud-of-my-record-at-h-p/17E70588-C97E-47F0-A6D8-9D244F135992.html>.

She boasts of 30,000 lay-offs. And her record was even worse at Lucent/Bell Labs where she followed "Productization" as a research planning tool. Question -- how do you fit Claude Shannon's work and Simon Sze's work into "productization ?" And try explaining frequency domain multiplexing to an accountant.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Even at 9 pts it's being characterized as a "Narrow Lead"

and a "Toss Up"

[flamingdem]

5. Repukes will do anything to get this seat nt

[stopbush]

8. Yep Channel 4 (NBC LA) called it a "neck and neck race" during their story

this am on Fiorina's hospitalization.

Since when is a 9-point lead less than a week out from an election "neck and neck?"

[grantcart]

6. I am sure that everyone is aware of it but just in case you didn't hear

Fiorina spent the night in the hospital and was released today.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/carly-fiorina-released-from-hospital/

[senseandsensibility]

7. k and r

Doing the happy dance here, but remember to vote everyone!

[JNelson6563]

9. Keep going!

I hope the campaign continues full speed ahead until the end of the race. I'm sure they will.

Julie--looking forward to hearing this along with many other Dem victories on election night