Look how poorly Barbara Boxer polls against all of the Republican candidates seeking their party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate seat Boxer currently holds. She is barely beating Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore, and getting beaten by Tom Campbell. In each case, she is polling under 50%. Well under 50%.
For an incumbent, that’s horrible. For Republicans, that’s a reason to lick chops. It remains possible, of course, for Boxer to win at the end–California is a heavily Democratic state, after all–but the odds against her winning are looking longer and longer.
February 4, 2010 – 12:21 am
Remember: February 3, 2010 is the day that the word “demon sheep” entered the political vocabulary:
November 28, 2009 – 2:16 pm
I am all for the enforcement of contracts, but given the smell of corruption about ACORN, and the many legitimate concerns that have come to the fore concerning its operations, perhaps it would be best that there be an independent investigation into ACORN’s activities before the federal government shovels money ACORN’s way, even if that money were due under contract.
November 7, 2009 – 1:06 pm
Ah, the benefits of being ruled by the “reality-based community”:
October 29, 2009 – 1:40 am
Heard of the California “Cool Cars” initiative?
October 6, 2009 – 12:21 am
The U.S.-Mexico border is a dividing line on the map and in the minds of most Americans and Mexicans alike — but if you’re on that border, it is something else altogether. It is the axis upon which your region, communities, and often families turn. No section of the border experiences this phenomenon of the frontier-as-unifying more than the Rio Grande Valley.
By Joshua Treviño
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Posted in Features, Politics
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Also tagged Arizona, Border, drugs, El Paso, Immigration, Mexican history, Mexico, Rio Grande, Texas, Trevino
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September 30, 2009 – 11:20 am
I received the following from Beth Miller, a spokesperson for the campaign, regarding Carly Fiorina.
September 30, 2009 – 1:45 am
I have learned that one day after the California state GOP convention closed, Republican Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina showed up in Fresno in order to campaign with and among ranchers, and to inspect fields. So why did she skip the CRP?
September 12, 2009 – 1:40 pm
A battle brewing in the Golden State over efforts to reform the GOP primary were halted this week. Were threats and pressure from party moderates responsible?
September 4, 2009 – 6:00 am
Today’s podcast focuses on why you’d ever want a Cadillac, and what the housing-market collapse has done in the hardest-hit areas in the country — specifically, suburban California. Are suburbs really halving in value? What are the societal ramifications of it not making economic sense to live in suburbs?
By Francis Cianfrocca
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Posted in Features, Market, Podcasts
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Also tagged automakers, Cadillac, Cash for Clunkers, Coffee and Markets, GM, houses, housing crisis, housing market, Podcast, Podcasts, suburbs
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August 31, 2009 – 10:18 pm
Having praised one George Will column, I would like to take the opportunity to praise a second one; his encomium to Tom Campbell, a candidate who deserves Will’s praise, and deserves praise from a whole host of other quarters as well.
August 19, 2009 – 2:08 pm
He is, after all, a hero to right-of-center folk, a terrific lawyer, a very smart guy, and has lived a tremendously consequential life. It’s a pity he never made it onto the Supreme Court; he would have been a superb Justice, but he has certainly found other ways to make a difference.
