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Jan 21, 2010 by News Gatherer
Tom Campbell, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina — had managed within hours to form a three-part swipe at Boxer, the chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Separate statements from the campaigns — from former Rep. Their message was this: Barbara Boxer, you’re next.
Scott Brown bested Attorney General Martha Coakley, was more good account after a month of bad poll numbers for Boxer and the Obama administration. Just last week, a Rasmussen Reports poll gave Boxer no more than 46 percent of the vote in a two-way matchup, with Fiorina netting 43 percent, Campbell 42 percent and DeVore, a about unknown, 40 percent. To Republicans, the aftereffect in Massachusetts, in which accompaniment Sen.
Those numbers represent Boxer’s worst poll achievement over the past year adjoin the likely opposition in November. 20). In a Field Poll appear yesterday, President Obama’s favorability rating in California was reported to accept dropped over the last year, from 65 percent several months into his admiral to 56 percent this anniversary (E&ENews PM, Jan. The poll also mirrors a slide for national Democrats.
To the California crowd of analysts watching the Senate from afar, the agitated in Massachusetts will likely prove to be a shot of adrenaline for an incumbent senator who is viewed agreeably by a majority of the accompaniment but still vulnerable to the kind populist movement in evidence throughout the country.
In other words, Boxer is no Martha Coakley, who has been criticized for running a lackluster attack adjoin Brown. While the aftereffect does speak to an atmosphere in which Boxer could lose, these analysts note that the Marin County citizen is a seasoned political veteran who has survived tough statewide races.
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