CA-Sen Poll Watch: California Voters Heart Carly Fiorina
Meg Whitman, left, winner of the Republican nomination for governor of California, and Carly Fiorina, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate from California, celebrate at a post-primary election celebration in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, June 9, 2010. AP Photo
Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters in yesterday’s California Republican Primary have a favorable opinion of their party’s new Senate nominee, Carly Fiorina. A Rasmussen Reports Election Night Survey found that just over 50% had favorable views of her two opponents Tom Campbell and Chuck DeVore.
Among the 43% of Primary voters who consider themselves part of the Tea Party Movement, Fiorina won 62% of the vote, and DeVore finished a distant second. Among the rest of the voters, Fiorina won a majority of the vote, and Campbell finished second.
Fiorina won big among conservative voters. Among the much smaller number of moderate voters, Campbell won a narrow plurality, 41% to 35%.
Ninety percent (90%) of Primary voters say they’re likely to vote for Fiorina in the general election campaign against incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. That’s an extraordinarily high number.
Although the latest head to head Fiorina vs. Boxer polling has Boxer ahead. I think the next few weeks will see the numbers shift and shift dramatically in favor of the Republican.