A friend alerted me to the latest Rasmussen poll of Golden State voters, a survey referenced in a previous post. And, Ma’am, they sure don’t look good for you:
The fact that [Barbara] Boxer’s support has been stuck in the mid-40s for several surveys no matter which Republican she is matched against continues to suggest that the race for now is about her rather than about those who are running against her.
Now, get this, while the state’s junior Senate polls no better than 47% against the three Republicans vying for the chance to replace her, leading my gal Carly and her more serious rival Tom Campbell by four points (46-42) and (45-41) respectively, she runs more than 10 points behind President Obama’s approval rate in the Golden State. Here, despite a sour economy with an unemployment rate topping 12%, one of the highest in the nation, the President’s approval stands at 58%, one of the highest in the nation.
Should that fall, as is likely if the economy here doesn’t pick up steam, Mrs. Boxer will assuredly go down with him. And remember this, two weeks before voters in Massachusetts elected Scott Brown to the United States Senate, Rasmussen had him down by nine. He won by five. That’s a fourteen-point shift.
With the Republican base enthused and Americans in an anti-incumbent mood, we could expect a similar turnaround out here. The more Republicans can focus on Mrs. Boxer’s record, reminding Californians of her support for high taxes and job-killing and land-parching regulation, the more they’ll want new representation. Indeed, they’re already unhappy with the incumbent. Without any negative ads being run against her (and with a state media largely oblivious to her blunders and partisanship), voters don’t much cotton to the 28-year Washington veteran: “Twenty-six percent (26%) of California voters share a very favorable opinion of Boxer, but 33% view the senator very unfavorably.”
And they don’t much like the kind of policies she’s been pushing for nearly three decades: “Just 19% say increased spending is the better option [compared to cutting taxes].” The more you look at the numbers, the more you realize that the only way Mrs. Boxer can gain any traction is by attacking her opponents, a tactic she has used to her benefit in 1992 and 1998.
Carly says she’s ready, having said, “After Chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer Is Not Very Scary.” Let’s hope she means that and she’s prepared for more than just the kitchen sink. Barbara Boxer excels in attack politics, having recently graduated to the political gutter, but she’ll return to the sewer if that’s what it takes to defeat a Republican.
All I can say is that being a Massachusetts resident who knows something about entrenched powerful politicians, there is no excuse whatsoever to keep her in power. She’s been an embarassment to average people, she’s exhibited the arrogance that comes from years holding a powerful position, she’s shown that she is so out of touch with the rest of us that it is inconceivable that she could be elected again. Her defining moment, in my humble opinion, was when she told a General who was being as respectful as he could be by calling her “Ma’am” and she embarassed him and insulted him. Get her the hell out of our system of government as soon as possible. She’s one of the elites that will never understand nor be able to ever relate to the rest of us “unclean” taxpayers.
Pelosi and Boxer are nothing but evidence that San Francisco County needs a chain link fence around it, with an extension across the GG bridge to surround Boxer’s place in Marin. I agree they have been an utter emabarrassment to this nation, particularly since Boxer’s pathetic heckling of Dr. Rice at her congressional review Hearings for Secretary of State. Pelosi has led the most destructive congress of my lifetime, possibly the history of the country.
Dan you mentioned Carly…..what the heck is going on with her “FCINO” video campaign? Though the content was good, the voice over intonation and imagery content was utterly retarded….I hope her campaign gets it together in the PR department. They’ve got a good platform — I’d hate to see her blow it in the public relations aspect. And let’s face it, California is a PR sensitive, substance ignoring state. The FCINO effort is a classic candidate shooting herself-in-the-foot move.
Get it together Carly. One more mistake like this and you may sink your own candidacy ship.
And, for those who don’t fine her hysterical on the issue of global warming, watch this…. Never Forget!
What has Boxer done to improve the lot of the taxpayers of California?
I’m so pleased to see others on this thread expressing a level of disgust with that contemptible shrew that I proudly share. Barbara Boxer’s legacy is well-preserved in every frame of C-SPAN’s considerable video archives–an ignorant, elitist, bombastic cu*t. Surely the only people more distressed by Boxer’s poll numbers are the members of her family who are now having to face the dreadful prospect of the horrible witch being banished to the West Coast full time following the mid-term elections. Her husband and children have probably already quit their jobs to devote their full energy to her campaign since a victory is their only hope of keeping the awful battle-axe 3000 miles away for at least another six years.
For me, the thing that really sums up what a vile harpy she is was her reaction to the first wave of the climate change scandals. While the rest of world was learning about East Anglia’s shocking fraud, Boxer had the nerve to call it “hacked e-mail-gate” or some such crap–a perfect example of the proverbial mask falling off. If Boxer had ANY interest in representing the State of California’s best interests and acting as a good steward of our tax dollars, she would have AT LEAST lightly feathered the brakes on her insane cap-and-trade crusade to examine the facts and resolve any doubts about man-made climate change before cavalierly attempting to commit her constituents (99.9999999 percent of which are not multi-millionaires like her) to economically-ruinous regulations. But she didn’t even blink. Her legacy will be “let them eat cake 2.0.”
As scary as it would be to see that woman darken our skies with her armada of flying monkeys, us Californians will certainly endure it if it if her return means she got her ass kicked out of Washington.
I’ve been following Chuck DeVore and am very impressed with his knowledge and application of the US Constitution. He will speak at CPAC today, 2/19, 12:30central. I’m eager to hear what he has to say.