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Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
The latest California Field Poll has been released and the one word describing Senator Barbara Boxer is vulnerable.
California voters are giving U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer some of the lowest approval ratings of her career, as the three-term Democrat is in a statistical dead heat against first-time GOP office-seeker Carly Fiorina, according to a new Field Poll released today.
Boxer leads Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, 47 to 44 percent, according to Field’s survey of 1,390 registered voters, 1,005 of whom were considered likely to vote in November. The poll, conducted June 22-July 5, has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points among likely voters. For Boxer’s job performance ratings among registered voters, the margin of error is 2.8 percentage points.
Here is a graphic that describes aptly how vulnerable the incumbent Senator is:
This U.S. Senate race is just beginning but Senator Boxer’s approval ratings are in the toilet. Will Boxer be able to persuade California voters that she has been doing a good job?
Doubtful
Stay tuned…….
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Chris, the party of old white men, the GOP has diversified, no?
Or is the appeal of the RIGHT = ideas and policy which have attracted a broad spectrum of Americans?
It will be interesting to watch Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina in California push back against the old LEFT of Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer. A new day for the GOP in California and wins by one or both will have implications for the Presidential race to replace Obama in 2012.
And, Chris Christie in New Jersey will lead a resurgence of the Republicans in the East.
Interesting times for a GOP which was called a southern regional party less than two years ago.
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With Congress officially on recess, President Obama will on Wednesday use his ability to make recess appointments to name one of his more controversial nominees: Donald Berwick, nominee to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The April nomination of Berwick — president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement — was in trouble and might not have been able to meet Senate confirmation due to comments Berwick made in the past about rationing health care. Even if Berwick could have been confirmed by the Senate, Democrats have little appetite for another round of fighting about changes to the health care system, Democrats said.
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Repeal ObamaCare before it ruins our health care system
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Attention is focused on the federal government's decision to challenge Arizona's strict immigration law, but three other states could pass similar legislation next year. Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah have each taken steps against illegal immigration, and politicians in the three states are advocating further measures when their legislatures reconvene early next year.
The Obama administration sued Arizona in federal court Tuesday, charging that the state law usurps federal authority, would hamper immigration enforcement and would lead to police harassment of those without proof of lawful status.
Lawmakers in at least 17 states drew up bills this year similar to Arizona's law, which allows officers to question anyone they suspect of being in the county illegally. But most of those measures are not considered likely to be adopted by state legislatures or signed by governors.
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As they should.
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Thirty-eight percent of independents approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, the first time independent approval of Obama has dropped below 40% in a Gallup Daily tracking weekly aggregate. Meanwhile, Obama maintains the support of 81% of Democrats, and his job approval among Republicans remains low, at 12%.
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Looks like poll numbers of a one term President.
We can only hope.
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President Obama will bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald M. Berwick, a health policy expert, to run Medicare and Medicaid, the White House said Tuesday.
Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said the “recess appointment” was needed to carry out the new health care law. The law calls for huge changes in the two programs, which together insure nearly one-third of all Americans.
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But, in a year the Congress will change and then what?
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In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.
J. Christian Adams, testifying Tuesday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said that "over and over and over again," the department showed "hostility" toward those cases. He described the Black Panther case as one example of that — he defended the legitimacy of the suit and said his "blood boiled" when he heard a Justice official claim the case wasn't solid.
"It is false," Adams said of the claim.
"We abetted wrongdoing and abandoned law-abiding citizens," he later testified.
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A pretty egregious case.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
You mean the Democrat Pols have the same skeletons in their closets as the Republicans?
What a shocker?
NOT
The fact is the LEFT has been able to manipulate the LAME-Stream media in covering up their sexual predilections better than the RIGHT. With the emergence of the New Media, I don’t think this will be working out so well for them. Look recently at Al Gore and John Edwards.
Stay tuned….. we are going into election season and the dirty laundry will fly.
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Charles Manson followers Leslie Van Houton, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel
Van Houten was denied parole for the nineteenth time.
A parole board has denied freedom for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten for the 19th time.
Van Houten was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the August 1969 slayings of wealthy grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca.
That was one night after actress Sharon Tate and four others were killed. Van Houten did not participate in the Tate slayings.
Charles Manson and the rest of them, including Van Houten should stay the rest of their lives in prison.
Leslie Van Houten was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the killings of wealthy grocers. The La Biancas were killed by stabbing to death in August 1969 just a night after the killings of actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Voityck frykowski and Steven Parent.
Leslie Van Houten was not involved in the first night killings but she went along other cult members when La Biancas were killed. Leslie Van Houten confessed that she joined in stabbing Mrs. Rosemary La Bianca.
Mason cult killings became one the most notorious murder cases of the 20th century and it rivet the pubic attention even after more than four decades.
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