CA-Sen Field Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 47% Vs. Carly Fiorina 41%

The latest California Field poll in the U.S. Senate race is out and has Senator Barbara Boxer leading my 6 points.

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has opened up a six-point lead against her GOP opponent, Carly Fiorina, as the race heads into the final six weeks, according to a Field Poll released Thursday.

Boxer, a three-term incumbent, leads 47 percent to 41 percent. She led by three points in July.

The poll found that impressions of Boxer are sharply divided and highly partisan, with 93 percent of all likely voters having an opinion of her. It found that Boxer still has a high unfavorable rating of 48 percent. But it has declined from a high of 52 percent two months ago.

“She’s hanging in,” said Mark DiCamillo, the poll’s director. “It looks like she’s had a pretty good month or two.”

DiCamillo attributed the results to Boxer’s television advertising, which began last week, while Fiorina unveiled her first television ad on Thursday. DiCamillo noted that Fiorina’s unfavorable rating has jumped from 29 percent to 38 percent since July.

“Fiorina has definitely taken a hit,” he said.

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Barbara Boxer has been hitting California television fairly hard the past 10 days and Carly has barely started her television media campaign. It has been a matter of campaign resources as Boxer has more campaign cash to spend on expensive California media markets.

What Carly needs to do is “HIT” Boxer with negative television ads and hit her hard on California television the closing weeks of the campaign. From the polling, it is apparent that California voters are voting against Boxer and Fiorina should help them make that choice.

I look for Fiorina to do just that.