Well, everyone knew this was going to come – Boxer going extremely negative in her political ads. And, using Sarah Palin – yeah, she is a nefarious character, isn’t she?

Why?

Desperation.

Figures released this afternoon show Boxer blowing $11 Million last quarter in campaign cash and then being in a dead heat with Carly Fiorina in the polls.

Also, look at some of the sources of the ad: The Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood – please.

Most of the claims from Boxer are so preposterous that California voters will say – huh? and/or what?

Carly Fiorina is NO extremist and Californians know it.

Anyway, here is the statement from the Carly Fiorina Campaign:

“Barbara Boxer is clearly getting desperate as she continues to gain no traction in the polls after spending millions on special interest backed, misleading advertising. Not only is this newest ad based on patently false claims that bear little, if any connection to actual facts, but it completely ignores Barbara Boxer’s 28 years in Washington where she has established herself as one of the most extreme, partisan and ineffective members of the U.S. Senate, while at the same time becoming a multimillionaire, funneling hundred of thousands of dollars to members of her family and taking special stock deals the average Californian would never have access to. Her record is so dismal that even her own hometown newspaper refused to endorse her for a fourth term saying that she’s known for little other than ‘delivering partisan shots.’ Barbara Boxer can try to run from the facts which are that under her watch taxes have gone up, our national debt is at record levels and more than 2.2 million Californians are unemployed, but she cannot hide behind false advertising. We demand that she immediately remove this ad from the airwaves and apologize to Carly, and California voters, for not only this deliberate and blatant distortion of reality, but also for her refusal to have an honest and serious debate about the issues during this crucial time for our nation.”

– Marty Wilson, Campaign Manager

Good grief and Barbara Boxer is a U.S. Senator? She cannot even get her own career facts straight = OLD.

California incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer spent some time today with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer straightening out her arithmetic. Boxer is in a toss-up race with GOP challenger and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.

“I voted for over $2 trillion of tax cuts, the largest one was in the stimulus bill,” Boxer said. Blitzer, confused, thought she meant $2 trillion in the stimulus, when she meant over her career.

Then Boxer got confused: “No, no, no — $1.2 trillion with the stimulus.”

That confused Blitzer even more, since the entire stimulus was about $800 billion. He asked, “There was $1.2 trillion in tax cuts in the stimulus?”

Boxer replied, “There was a lot. About, well, I will put it this way, over time, that’s what it will be, when you figure all the tax cuts over time. And what we did for the senior citizens, giving them back those refunds. So there was a lot.”

She finally got back on track, adding, correctly this time, “Actually, a third of the stimulus was tax cuts. That I can tell you.”

That’s the “Making Work Pay” cut that President Obama mistakenly thought would bring Republicans along to support the stimulus. Democrats bitterly complained later that the tax cut showed up as a few dollars a week in people’s paychecks that almost no one noticed.

But, you know this is not the first time. Look at this video:

Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer

This is what the latest Rasmussen poll says about this closely fought California U.S. Senate race.

Incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer continues to hold the slightest of leads over Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in California’s U.S. Senate race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in California shows Boxer with 49% support and Fiorina with 46%. Two percent (2%) prefer another candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) are undecided.

The race remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings.

Just over a week ago, Boxer, who is seeking a fourth six-year term, posted a similar 49% to 45% lead over Fiorina, a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Boxer has held a small lead in every survey but one since February with 42% to 49% of the vote. Fiorina, in those same surveys, has earned 38% to 47% support.

With Carly Fiorina now running statewide television ads, it may be time for her to start showing a move.

Larry Sabato earlier today moved the race back to “leans Democrat” from toss-up. This is likely premature as early California voting and the televised ad wars continue.

Note that if Barbara Boxer had this race in the bag, why would President Obama be coming to Los Angeles to campaign for her next week. The internal polls obviously show a close race.

The survey of 750 Likely Voters in California was conducted on October 13, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Here is the latest Real Clear Politics poll average graph:

So says the North County Times (San Diego) in their editorial endorsing Carly Fiorina for U.S. Senate.

Finally, Barbara Boxer’s air of entitlement —- an arrogance aired for all to see when she upbraided a general testifying before Congress for addressing her as “ma’am” instead of her preferred “senator” —- is intolerable. We need public servants who understand they work for us, not career politicians who believe themselves a modern form of royalty.

Her combination of apparent personal humility and substantive emphasis on growing the economy and creating jobs through the private sector lead us to believe Fiorina would be a far better representative of the people of California than the out-of-touch Boxer.