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Carly surges!

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Two polls show my gal Carly surging in the race to take on Barbara “Call Me Ma’am” Boxer. According to Public Policy Polling, Fiorina has “opened up a 20 point lead with 41% to 21% for Tom Campbell and 16% for Chuck DeVore“:

Carly Fiorina’s superior resources always had the potential to blow her opponents for the California Republican Senate nomination out of the water, and in the closing stretch that appears to be exactly what’s happening.

And Public Policy isn’t the only poll which shows Carly surging.  According to a “new SurveyUSA polling conducted for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco, KGTV-TV San Diego, and KFSN-TV Fresno“:

. . . support for former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is up sharply in the past 2 weeks, from 24% on 05/10/10 to 46% today 05/24/10. Fiorina’s support has more than doubled among women, seniors, Hispanics, the less educated, and in the Inland Empire. During these 2 weeks, Former Congressman Tom Campbell’s support dropped 12 points, from 35% on 05/10/10 to 23% today 05/24/10.

Now that people are finally paying attention in this contest, the choice is becoming clearer to Golden State Republicans.

UPDATE:  A third poll now shows the same thing:

A new Magellan Strategies poll in California confirms other recent surveys which show Carly Fiorina (R) has surged into the lead for the Republican Senate nomination.

Fiorina leads with 44%, while Tom Campbell (R) is at 21% and Chuck DeVore is at 14%.

Comments

  1. Palin probably helped, things seem to have been moving for Fiorina. Haley had the same thing happen for her, guess this could be the power of Palin. She could begin to alter the face of the Republican party if her candidates end up winning.

  2. Carly does need to hone her response to the questions of the HP days. Again, I’m a tech geek and followed that merger very closely. Maybe she’s already given a better response than the last one I’ve heard, but Boxer will use it like a jackhammer to try to score points unless it is explained or turned to a political advantage.

  4. V, please check Carly’s platform before leveling such accusations. And even if she were that kind of Senator, she’d vote more often against big government than does the incumbent. Recall that Snowe and Collins voted “No” on Obamacare and for many of the amendments Republicans attempted to tack on to the legislation.

  5. What a politician says during a campaign is not an indicator of future performance. Even her mentor, John “Landslide” McCain is pretending to be a conservative this time around. At least during the primary.

    That she ran HP (into the ground) like a doctrinaire lib is more indicative of how she will vote. Not that the alternatives are necessarily any better.

    And after PA-12, I’m convinced she’ll lose to Boxer in the Fall anyway.

  6. After all, people are branding Tom Campbell an anti-semite. Is this because of what he has said on the campaign trail, or because of things he has done in the past? Let’s be consistent with our standards here.

  8. That she ran HP (into the ground) like a doctrinaire lib is more indicative of how she will vote. Not that the alternatives are necessarily any better.

    She ran HP like a doctrinaire lib? How, exactly?

  9. If you believe her critics… and they should be given some weight … she used the company as a vehicle for self-promotion, she took on a lot of debt and left it for her successors to pay off, employees regarded her as imperious, she destroyed the corporate culture, she was more about image than substance, she fired people who disagreed with her and later lamented she didn’t fire them fast enough, she played the victim card when she said that a male CEO wouldn’t have been as harshly criticized as she was.

    I can see the reasoning that only a RINO can win in California. I get that. But I don’t think a male CEO who had destroyed 18,000 jobs and reduced the value of a company by $14 Billion would be a senate contender.