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CA-Sen: San Francisco Chronicle Refuses to Endorse Barbara Boxer
Pat Buchanan on MSNBC talking about Carly Firoina’s latest television ad, “Sir”.When a left-wing rag in San Francisco refuses to endorse your candidacy, you know you are in trouble. And, this is what has happened to Senator Barbara Boxer.
Californians are left with a deeply unsatisfying choice for the U.S. Senate this year. The incumbent, Democrat Barbara Boxer, has failed to distinguish herself during her 18 years in office. There is no reason to believe that another six-year term would bring anything but more of the same uninspired representation.
But, they did not endorse Carly Fiorina either. But, why would anyone expect this far-left publication to endorse ANY Republican?
This whole exercise is more of a SLAP at Boxer and California Democrats for an OBVIOUS lack of performance.
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Updated – CA-Sen Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 51% Vs. Carly Fiorina 43%
++++++Update ++++++From the Carly Fiorina campaign:
September 26, 2010MEMORANDUM
TO: Interested Parties
FR: Martin Wilson, C ampaign Manager, Carly for California
RE: Los Angeles Times Poll/CA Senate Race Update
________________________________________________________________________The just-released poll by the Los Angeles Times is neither an accurate nor a reliable reflection of voter interest or likely participation in the upcoming election.
Simply put, the Times poll overestimates Democratic voter participation by a wide margin, hence it produced skewed results that are inconsistent with other public and private polling in this race, including the respected Field Poll released on Friday. Specifically, the poll’s sample indicates that self-identified Democrats will hold a 16.75 percent advantage over Republicans, which is at least double what other credible polls indicate. In addition to understating the Republican vote, its results are based on 9 percent
participation of independent voters when, again, other pollsters estimate that at least 20 percent of the electorate will be comprised of swing voters.With such an errant sampling methodology, we are amazed that Boxer’s lead over Carly is not in the double digits as opposed to the eight-point advantage they are giving the incumbent. At this stage and in light of the dynamics of the race during the time this survey was in the field, that is a gap that can, and will, be bridged in the coming weeks.
For 10 days, while this survey was being conducted, Barbara Boxer spent several million dollars on unanswered advertising mischaracterizing both her own record and Carly’s record. It is notable that, despite this, Barbara Boxer was unable to increase her standing with voters in the Field Poll. We are now answering back with the launch of our advertising campaign just 72 hours ago, after both the Times and Field polls had been completed. As this campaign moves forward and as voters become aware of the facts about Barbara Boxer, the hyper-partisan career politician, the dynamics in this race will change quickly. Over the course of the next 38 days, the spotlight will be squarely on
Barbara Boxer and the low road she has taken toward achieving higher office. Carly will stand in stark contrast to Boxer’s record of failure: a bipartisan problem solver who will use her real-world business experience to find common-sense solutions to solving our state and nation’s problems. As that happens, the numbers in this race will move, so hold on to your hats for an exciting and competitive race to November 2.+++++++++++++Pollster’s Interactive poll average graph: Boxer 47.9& Vs. Fiorina 44.2%The latest poll in this race from the Los Angeles Times/USC is probably an outlier since the venerable California Field Poll has the race closer and they polled at about the same time. Also, there have been some documented deficiencies in the polling sample (Meg Whitman campaign)
There is strong evidence why the LA Times/USC Poll is out-of-step with the California Field Poll, despite the fact that they polled voters at the same time. The Field Poll conducted interviews from September 14-21 and the LAT/USC Poll was in the field September 15-22. The most significant difference is that the LAT/USC poll under-sampled Republicans. That’s why its results differ so sharply from Field and all the other recently reported public polls, as well as our own internal polls. Field provides a far truer representation of California’s 2010 electorate, in our estimation.
But…..this is yet another poll that has Carly Fiorina behind.
Pollster
Dates
N/Pop
Fiorina
Boxer
Other
Undecided
Margin
USC/LATimes
9/15-22/10 838 LV 43 51 – 4 +8D
SurveyUSA
9/19-21/10 610 LV 43 49 6 2 +6D
Field
9/14-21/10 599 LV 41 47 – 12 +6D
Rasmussen
9/20/10 750 LV 43 47 4 6 +4D
FOX
9/18/10 1000 LV 46 47 3 4 +1D
PPP (D)
9/14-16/10 614 LV 42 50 – 8 +8D
FOX
9/11/10 1000 LV 44 46 4 6 +2D
Rasmussen
9/6/10 750 LV 48 47 2 3 +1R Barbara Boxer has been running television ads statewide for a couple of weeks while Fiorina just started a few days ago.
Now, is the time for Fiorina, before early and absentee voting starts, to light up the California television airwaves – if she wants to win.
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CA-Sen Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 51% Vs. Carly Fiorina 43%
Pollster’s Interactive poll average graph: Boxer 47.9& Vs. Fiorina 44.2%The latest poll in this race from the Los Angeles Times/USC is probably an outlier since the venerable California Field Poll has the race closer and they polled at about the same time. Also, there have been some documented deficiencies in the polling sample (Meg Whitman campaign)
There is strong evidence why the LA Times/USC Poll is out-of-step with the California Field Poll, despite the fact that they polled voters at the same time. The Field Poll conducted interviews from September 14-21 and the LAT/USC Poll was in the field September 15-22. The most significant difference is that the LAT/USC poll under-sampled Republicans. That’s why its results differ so sharply from Field and all the other recently reported public polls, as well as our own internal polls. Field provides a far truer representation of California’s 2010 electorate, in our estimation.
But…..this is yet another poll that has Carly Fiorina behind.
Pollster
Dates
N/Pop
Fiorina
Boxer
Other
Undecided
Margin
USC/LATimes
9/15-22/10 838 LV 43 51 – 4 +8D
SurveyUSA
9/19-21/10 610 LV 43 49 6 2 +6D
Field
9/14-21/10 599 LV 41 47 – 12 +6D
Rasmussen
9/20/10 750 LV 43 47 4 6 +4D
FOX
9/18/10 1000 LV 46 47 3 4 +1D
PPP (D)
9/14-16/10 614 LV 42 50 – 8 +8D
FOX
9/11/10 1000 LV 44 46 4 6 +2D
Rasmussen
9/6/10 750 LV 48 47 2 3 +1R Barbara Boxer has been running television ads statewide for a couple of weeks while Fiorina just started a few days ago.
Now, is the time for Fiorina, before early and absentee voting starts, to light up the California television airwaves – if she wants to win.
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CA-Gov Poll Watch: Is Jerry Brown Really Ahead of Meg Whitman?
California Attorney General and Democrat nominee for Governor Jerry Brown’s latest television ad. In this ad Brown attempts to reinvent himself again (LIES to voters) about increasing taxes and local control of governmentWell, if you believe the LA Times/USC poll Brown is ahead by five points (49%-44%) but there are some problems with the polling samples.
There is strong evidence why the LA Times/USC Poll is out-of-step with the California Field Poll, despite the fact that they polled voters at the same time. The Field Poll conducted interviews from September 14-21 and the LAT/USC Poll was in the field September 15-22. The most significant difference is that the LAT/USC poll under-sampled Republicans. That’s why its results differ so sharply from Field and all the other recently reported public polls, as well as our own internal polls. Field provides a far truer representation of California’s 2010 electorate, in our estimation.
My belief which is supported by the venerable California Field Poll and polling averages is that the election is very close. Look at the poll average graph below.
Pollster Interactive CA-Gov Poll Average Graph (Meg Whitman 45.7% Vs Jerry Brown 44.8%)
In my various social ventures (in person) outside the blogosphere nobody and I mean nobody is discussing Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer – absolutely no idol conversation about the coming elections at all. There are no signs, bumper stickers or anything in the lefty parts of Los Angeles. I cannot foresee an enthusiastic turnout for the Democrats in November – at least not in heavily Democratic Los Angeles County.
This is a very good sign for Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina.
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CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer’s Senate Junkets Become an Issue in Campaign
Carly Fiorina is ridiculing Senator Barbara Boxer and the numerous junkets she has taken during her eighteen year tenure as a United States Senator.Since 2000, Barbara Boxer has had to go on 18 special-interest funded trips to such far-flung destinations as Honolulu, Hawaii; Punta Mita, Mexico; the Grand Cayman Islands and Florence, Italy – just to name a few.
Her visits to these exotic locations uniquely qualify her to recommend the Five Places to See Before You Retire. We’re guessing she’s thrilled she had the chance to see these places before the people of California send her into retirement on November 2.
After you read our travel guide, be sure to visit RetireBarbaraBoxer.com to make your recommendation to the Senator on where she should retire.
But, seriously, the issue is NOT that flippant.
Senate travel can be important for fact-finding but junkets are not – especially if private special interests are paying the tab. I mean what are they buying with their paid trips?
INFLUENCE
Especially noteworthy is the fact that California’s other Democrat U.s. Senator Dianne Feinstein pays her own way.
And lest one think, “Oh, every senator does this,” . . . some don’t. In 2005, the California press started to notice
the wide disparity between the travel expenses of Boxer and those
of the state’s other senator, Democrat Dianne Feinstein: “Ms. Boxer’s 14
privately funded trips averaged out to nearly $5,300 apiece. In sharp
contrast, Ms. Feinstein averaged about $292 per trip.”Feinstein’s spokesman, Howard Gantman, gently put it that his boss “does prefer to pay her own way.”
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CA-Sen: Fred Davis – The Creative Genius Behind The Political Curtain
“Hot Air” from the Carly Fiorina campaign against Senator Barbara BoxerI think you will enjoy reading this profile of Fred Davis and why the GOP is banking on his work to help replace Senator Barbara Boxer with Carly Fiorina.
It’s early on a Sunday morning and Fred Davis, perhaps the most sought-after ad man in politics, wants his client in the zone. “Today will be a battle between toughness and twinkle,” he e-mails Carly Fiorina, the Republican Senate hopeful in California. She pings him back: “I’ll come twinkle in hand.”
Soon, Fiorina arrives at a large soundstage near the Paramount Pictures lot here to film a series of campaign spots, and Davis is scurrying across the set, a stopwatch dangling from his neck, assembling the crew of more than two dozen. He is the campaign’s creative director, and this is the big show.
Are the scripts loaded onto the teleprompter? Check. Is the fog machine working? Check. Is Fiorina’s black stool at center stage? Check. The caterers are serving coffee and breakfast burritos. The makeup girl is waiting in a mirrored side room. The fashion photographer Philip Dixon, whom Davis praises as being “up there with Annie Leibovitz,” is breezing around in his signature hippie-pajamas ensemble adjusting two massive floodlights that he will beam against a white wall to delicately light the candidate’s face.
“I want it to look perfect — as good as anything in Vogue,” Davis says. “This is how you shoot a Hollywood movie. This is not how you shoot a political ad.”
Davis is orchestrating a simple shot. Fiorina, alone, speaks to the camera against a dark, moodily lit backdrop, her hazel eyes twinkling as commanded. A tech turns on the fog machine. In the blue light, the effect is ethereal. Fiorina, the tough, smack-talking former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, is transformed into a delicate angel.
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CA-Sen Field Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 47% Vs. Carly Fiorina 41%
Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
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.
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.
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CA-Sen Video: Carly Fiorina Launches California-Wide Television Ad Campaign
GOP U.S. Senate nominee Carly Fiorina’s first television ad against Senator Barbara Boxer – “Sir”I tweeted last night that Carly Fiorina would soon begin her California State-Wide television media campaign since it was apparent from the election calendar (absentee and early voting will start in California in a few weeks) that she would either begin or allow Barbara Boxer have a full two week start on television (she began her television ads over 10 days ago). Then, I learned that my assumptions were correct and that the first ad would begin its run on Thursday.
I haven’t seen it yet on Los Angeles channels as of yet but the rotation will begin soon. The Carly Campaign will probably not reveal the extent of their ad buy for obvious strategic reasons.
From the early morning press release:
U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina today launched her first television advertisement of the general election, “Sir.” The 30-second ad marks the start of a series of statewide advertisements Fiorina will air during the general election campaign.
“It has only taken 30 years, but California voters have finally been afforded the complete and accurate picture of Barbara Boxer. In her own words, she demonstrates the arrogance that is the hallmark of a career that has gone on for far too long and will mercifully end on November 2. She’s invested much in furthering her career and liberal ideology but has delivered little for the people of California,” said Carly for California Campaign Manager Marty Wilson. “Boxer’s treatment of General Walsh is seared into the minds of Californians, and this is the beginning of our campaign’s fact-based approach to exposing the lowlights of Barbara Boxer’s career dedicated to raising taxes, increasing the size of government and promoting policies that strangle the private sector’s ability to create jobs. Carly provides the perfect contrast through her background in business and commitment to addressing our country’s challenges with bipartisan, common-sense solutions.”
“Sir” features the infamous exchange between Barbara Boxer and Brigadier General Michael Walsh in which she demands he call her “senator” rather than “ma’am.” “Sir” underscores the arrogance that has become the hallmark of Barbara Boxer’s nearly three decades in Washington and contrasts that to Carly Fiorina’s commitment as a political outsider to focus on bringing people together to get the nation’s economy back on track and restore accountability in our government.
The timing of the ad for the Fiorina Campaign is interesting. Carly is in DC fundraising through Saturday (Boxer is in DC attending Senate sessions) asking donors for campaign cash to pay for “on air” time. Fred Davis, her ad creator, has delivered the product, now it is up to either Carly or political donors to distribute them. My bet is that Carly will pull out her own checkbook, if campaign cash is slow in delivery.
The television media campaign of Carly Fiorina Vs. Barbara Boxer has begun – watch for Fiorina to start to pull away in the polls in about three weeks.
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CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer – THE BOUNCER
Remember the House Banking Scandal in 1992?In 1992, angry about stalemated government, soaring deficits, and economic recession, the public focused its attention on check bouncing in the House of Representatives bank as a symbol of government perks, or special privileges. For 150 years the House sergeant at arms had operated a bank in the Capitol, where members could write checks based on their deposited salaries. A General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation revealed that many representatives had written checks with insufficient funds in their accounts to cover those checks, but the bank had taken no action to suspend or penalize those who bounced checks. Extensive media coverage caused the House to abolish the bank and reveal the names of more than 300 members who had bounced checks. An unusually large number of representatives chose not to run for reelection, and several other check bouncers were defeated. The bank scandal spurred the House to establish the position of director of nonlegislative services, who would serve as a general manager of financial and other administrative activities.
Well, shocker, Senator Barbara Boxer when she was in the House of Representatives was the 24th most egregious of the miscreants.
The PBS onlineNewshour summarizes the House Banking Scandal, also known as Rubbergate: “In 1992, many House members were suspected of bouncing checks from accounts they held at the so-called “House Bank” — a loose operation that allowed member of Congress to cash their checks but kept shoddy records and often were quite delayed in recording deposits or withdrawals. Although the lawmakers had broken no laws and many did not even know they were bouncing checks, several took advantage of the bank system and many voters viewed the scandal as a blatant abuse of power. Of the 296 sitting representatives and 59 former members who had overdrafted their personal accounts in the preceding 39 months, the House Ethics Committee released a list of the 24 worst abusers.”
Boxer was among the top 24 involved in the House bank scandal. On March 1, 1992 the Sacramento Bee quoted Boxer as admitting she didn’t pay enough attention to her House bank account. More specifically, that meant 143 bad checks totaling $41,417 over a three-year period that she had written on the House bank.
So, why would something dated back to the 1990’s be so important?
All of this occurred as she was preparing her first campaign for Senate; she decided to attempt to defuse the matter with humor, joking that if she did not win her party’s Senate nomination, she would form a new self-help group: ‘Born Again Bookkeepers.’
Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Clearly, she never became a born-again bookkeeper; when Barbara Boxer entered the U.S. Senate, the national debt was a little over $4 trillion. Today, it is $13.4 trillion.
Why bring up these old matters? To ensure Californians know what they may return to Washington for another six years. In her long political career, we’ve seen Boxer appear to buy endorsements, jet-set around the world to exotic resorts for “official business,” bounce checks, and there will be two more examples of embarrassing behavior to come later this week. She has yet to suffer a serious consequence for any of this.
What is different this election is the internet, the availability of communicating these abuses and a worthwhile opponent in Carly Fiorina. There will be consequences when California voters wise up and kick Senator Barbara, “The Bouncer” Boxer out of office.
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CA-Sen Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 47% Vs. Carly Fiorina 43%
Pollster Interactive poll average chart: Boxer 47.4% Vs. Fiorina 45.3%In the second California U.S. Senate poll released today, this race continues to be within the margin of error and is essentially a dead heat.47% Boxer (D)
43% Fiorina (R)Favorable / Unfavorable
Barbara Boxer: 48 / 49
Carly Fiorina: 47 / 449/20/10; 750 likely voters, 4% margin of error
Mode: Automated phoneAgain, since Barbara Boxer has had a television media blitz the past week or so, one would expect some movement for her. But, there has been little, if any, especially if you consider the Fox News poll released this morning.
Carly Fiorina will begin her paid television campaign soon.