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Poll: Schwarzenegger Polling Worse Than Fiorina For Senate In 2010
It really must be hard to be governor of California right now.
A new Rasmussen poll tests Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) against two Republicans for her 2010 re-election campaign: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and McCain campaign surrogate. Fiorina had some had some memorable gaffes during the campaign, the most notable one being when she said Sarah Palin wasn't prepared to run a company like HP, for which she was taken off TV for a little while.
Boxer is way ahead in this Democratic state, leading Schwarzenegger 50%-34%. But it's actually a bit narrower against Fiorina, with Boxer at 47% to Fiorina's 38%.
That's right, Arnold: Carly Fiorina is polling better than you are.
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Well, this is a shocker, especially coming from ratsmussen. That means boxer is well north of 50 and forino and arnie are well south of 30. Again, the conduct of the national republican party has got to be killing state republicans, like arnie, a republican in name only pretty much. People don't want anymore R's in congress and want to get rid of the R's that are there. This is a big time problem for the republican party. They are looking at a slaughter in 2010 at this rate.
March 12, 2009 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michael, your analysis might be true for the country as a whole, but in California, the state Republicans are doing pretty damn well on their own to kill the state Republican Party.
Imagine a Senate, but instead of 60% of the votes you need 67% to pass anything. Then imagine there are no Olympia Snowes or Arlen Specters; every Republican is a Crapo. That's what's going on in California.
March 12, 2009 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep, but the problem is those state r's are in incredibly safe districts. Until there are some major revisions in california concerning the way the state government does business, those handful of r's will always be able to screw up the works. The thing is that I thought the terminator was more popular, notwithstanding the r and the actual facts of his administration. Apparently not, which is a good thing.
March 12, 2009 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, I wouldn't say all of them are in very safe districts (though of course the vast majority of them are). Democrats are only 2 or 3 seats away from a 2/3 majority in both the houses of the California legislature; it's a realistic goal to have them both by 2012. Everything would have to go right, but it's on the level of the likelihood of Obama winning Arizona in 2012, not of Obama winning Utah.
March 12, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really? That's good news. Maybe they can then straighten up the total clusterf*ck that is the california state and local government. It's a fiasco of epic proportions. They have had a budget crisis since proposition 13 every gd year and the schools are going down the tubes.
By the way, I never understood the fascination with the terminator. I would talk to these republicans, who I thought were rational and were well educated, about arnie and they loved the guy. I was like WTF, you can't be serious, but they were. Luckily hopefully the spin is starting to wear off. There were people who were promoting him for president? I was like give me a freaking break.
March 12, 2009 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone who wants to see what gerrymandering looks like on paper, just look at California's 3rd district.
Delay's Texas corridor might have been more blatant, but the gated Sacramento suburbs and the gold-country foothills to the east (including Alpine County) all cobbled together looks like a ET's right hand.
Think I'm snarkin?
Look it up...
March 12, 2009 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Terminator is terminated, perhaps abandoned by the increasingly extremist party for whom he has grown too moderate and by the rest of the state of California devastated by this very same party's policies.
March 12, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not too shocked. AH-nold hasn't been very popular with his fellow Republicans for quite some time now, having proved himself time and again to be far too pragmatic for their increasingly bitter tastes.
Further, Gov. Schwarzenegger's apparent private threats to GOP state officials to very publicly break with the party, were they to follow through on their threats to sanction that small handful of GOP state legislators who finally broke ranks to support the governor and Democrats in the just-concluded budget wars, probably hasn't helped his cause any with the GOP's fire-eating rank-and-file.
Unless he switches parties, Arnold's political options are actually quite limited once he terms out in 2010.
March 12, 2009 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Sarah Palin wasn't prepared to run a company like HP"
So, for a Repub, a statement is a "gaffe" if it's true?
March 12, 2009 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I mean, after all, if anyone knows firsthand about not being prepared to run a company like HP, it's Carly.
March 12, 2009 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barbara Boxer will not even have to campaign to beat these two smucks!
March 12, 2009 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I been cheated!
Bombarded with email solicitations from BoXer since 2006 on her behalf directly and on behalf of her favored Senate candidates in the last two cycles.
The Governator had her terrified
March 12, 2009 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he's got a place in his next movie for Carly?
March 12, 2009 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink