CA-Sen: Desperate Sen. Barbara Boxer Responds to Slip in Polls to Carly Fiorina With Abortion Ad
A new poll in the California Senate race shows pro-life candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over pro-abortion incumbent Barbara Boxer to five percentage points. Not content with the results, Boxer has released a new Internet ad that bashes Fiorina on abortion.
The new CBS 5 KPIX-TV poll released Thursday has Fiorina leading Boxer 47-42 percent with the rest undecided or favoring a minor party candidate.
The poll also noted that Fiorina’s support is essentially unchanged among men and women, young and old voters, and white and Hispanic voters while Boxer has lost a bit of ground with men, younger voters, and independents.
Fiorina is capturing 27 percent of the black vote, leads Boxer among independents by 17 percent, and trails with Hispanics by just six points.
Fiorina has also upped her lead in the Central Valley from 7 percent to 21 percent in the latest Survey USA poll.
Just hours after the polling results were released, the Boxer campaign dropped a new 15-second Internet ad blasting Fiorina on abortion — an issues Boxer’s people believe will help her in a state that does not follow the rest of the nation in opposing abortion.
The ad bashes Fiorina for saying, “I absolutely would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if the opportunity presented itself” in a KTKZ – AM interview in January. It highlights several endorsements Fiorina has received from pro-life groups and pro-life leaders.
San Francisco political writer Joe Garofoli says the abortion ad could be an indication the Boxer campaign believes the election is starting to slip away.
Senator Boxer is in deep trouble and her campaign is flailing away trying to find issues in which to bash Republican Carly Fiorina. I don’t think abortion is going to resonate so much with all of the unemployed Californians and with the small business owners who arre going under.
Moreover, I doubt Boxer’s support for unrestricted abortion, including partial birth abortions, will resonate too well with voters.
Nice try, Barbara.
I doubt we will see this ad on television anytime soon.