Californians: we HAVE to keep Boxer's seat!

[Taverner]

Seriously - the GOP is preparing for a Scott Brown like game change in CA this next election

Meg Whitman CANNOT win, both for the party and for the state of California!

Unlike Coakley, Sen Barbara Boxer is a well liked, extremely smart PROGRESSIVE. Even when it was unfavorable to do so. We have to keep her seat!!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. We will keep it.

Boxer is very popular, and she's not in danger.

Whitman cannot buy the Senate seat...

Not to worry!

[harkadog]

22. Since Whitman is not running for the Senate

Maybe we should worry.

[JuniperLea]

2. Whitman is a gas-bag...

I've not seen one substantive message from her anywhere... not on the tube, not in the news, nothing. All she and Poizner are doing is bashing each other. Good. Let 'em. Have at it. If I were running a Dem against them, I wouldn't spend a dime until their primary is over and the bile, blood and fecal matter covers the entire Grand Old Poopstains.

[villager]

4. Whitman is indeed a gas-bag, but she's running for governor

So we have to keep her from beating Jerry Brown for the open seat.

We do, however, have to keep either Tom Campbell or Carly Fiorina from beating Boxer in the Senate race...

[Canuckistanian]

31. Carly Fiorina is a threat to Boxer?

Seriously?

[villager]

40. Sadly, at this moment in the polls, yes.

Of course, Tom Campbell may yet win the Wingnut primary. And in managing to appear less wingnutty, he could be the bigger threat...

[Nikki Stone1]

41. Where are the latest polls on Fiorina and Campbell?

Fiorina needs to be soundly defeated.

[villager]

45. Well, yes, but Boxer will be running against one or the other of them

...and actually, Campbell -- who had a lead in the last Field poll (over Boxer, that is) -- would be harder to beat..

[Nikki Stone1]

47. True

But Fiorina could pull a lot of women with her.

[jody]

3. I am not a resident of CA but have many Dem friends who are. A number of them do not support Boxer.

That's not a valid sample but does show Boxer is not liked by all CA Dems.

[Iggo]

8. Real CA Dems vote for CA Dems.

So will your friends.

[jody]

10. Interesting to see your support for the following CA Dems.

Baca, Joe (CA-43)
Cardoza, Dennis (CA-18)
Costa, Jim (CA-20)
Harman, Jane (CA-36)
Sanchez, Loretta (CA-47)
Schiff, Adam (CA-29)
Thompson, Mike (CA-01)

[Iggo]

15. We vote for Dems in the general election, or we ain't Dems.

Those Reps you listed are all local, by the way.

Senator, on the other hand, is a statewide office.

[jody]

20. You said "Real CA Dems vote for CA Dems" so do you support the CA Dems I listed? n/t

[Iggo]

28. If they're running in the general election in my district...

...or if they are running for statewide office against republikkkans, then yes.

"Real CA Dems vote for CA Dems". I think we can agree that "vote" is the key word there.

I am a real California Democrat. I vote for California Democrats like I said.

I think I see what you're trying to get me to say, but that's not what I was saying.

Nice try, though.

[jody]

29. Just wondering because they are members of the Blue Dog Coalition. n/t

[Iggo]

35. I figured that's where you were going.

If somebody wants to primary those representatives, that's really up to the people in those specific districts. I don't get into party infighting. I vote Dem in the general. Whoever the Dem candidate is, they get my vote. I will never sit on my hands. I will never stay home. I vote, and I vote Dem.

[jody]

36. Sounds like you are a Yellow Dog Democrat like me.

[Iggo]

38. What a gross term!

Still, not inaccurate...lol.

[jody]

39. Read the history of the term at the link below.

http://www.yellowdogdemocrat.com/history.htm

[Mojeoux]

21. Remember That Bolt She Held up in Congress? Cost Military More Than Her Wedding Ring?

Barbara Boxer is my Hero. She WILL keep her seat.

I voted for her when I lived in Marin and I voted for her now that she's a state senator.

Liberals put her in office, and we're still here. The ditto-head teabaggasaurus is not and won't ever run California.
The vote and tide is turning on the Gay Marriage situating every day.

Barbara Boxer for President 20016!

[SalviaBlue]

26. Do you know why they don't support her?

Just wondering.

Thanks.

[jody]

30. Apparently the most common issue is her position on illegal aliens. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

42. So, in light of that, would the Republican opponent be a better choice? -nt

[jody]

43. I have no idea how my Dem friends in CA will vote. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. That, of course, does not qualify as an answer to the question I asked. -nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

48. HAHAHAHA! He put me back on Ignore after this!

It's all right. I am not ignoring him, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who knows me.

[blue_onyx]

5. Isn't Meg Whitman running for Governor?

[calimary]

13. Yes. Against Jerry Brown among others. It's that dingbat carly fiorina who's trying to

take Barbara Boxer's job.

Thank goodness Barbara's not inclined to rest on her poll numbers and go take a vacation during campaign season. Boxer's been revving up for this for a couple of years at least. Thank God. She's NO Martha Coakley.

[tinrobot]

6. Meg Whitman is running for Governor, not Senate

I'm sure Boxer will make short work of Carly "18,000 HP jobs lost" Fiorina.

As for Jerry Brown vs Meg Whitman, everyone MUST contribute to Brown, so he has a chance against Whitman's billions.

[Arkana]

7. Boxer hasn't really started campaigning yet.

When she does I expect the numbers will change. How is the advertising situation? Does she at least have things on the air?

[Iggo]

9. Right now, it seems like Whitman and Poisner are the only ones running for anything.

I don't see too many Dems in primary fights...at least not here in SoCal.

Once the Rep primaries are over, then it starts.

[Arkana]

11. She's got to know this: IT CAN HAPPEN.

If it happened in Massachusetts, it sure as hell can happen in California.

Still, I expect Boxer paid attention to what happened to Martha Coakley. No one in the Senate should be ignorant of the lesson that election taught us.

[Sebastian Doyle]

24. Totally different situations

In Massachusetts you had an open seat, where the previous incumbent died, and the replacement candidate ran a weak campaign, and didn't really give people much of a reason to vote for her.

Boxer isn't going anywhere.

[Froward69]

12. with the intensity of 1000 suns

the GOP hates her...

I agree we must retain her I would be willing to help in any way I can.

I was once involved in an argument with a rethug that hated her for grilling a general during a hearing. he simply would not accept that every member of congress outranks generals in this country.

[andym]

14. She's a great progressive, but she is not all that popular here

outside of the bay area. Her statewide favorables hover just under 50% and her unfavorables are now approaching 50% as well.

http://www.pollster.com/polls/ca/fav-boxer.php

Hopefully the economy will improve enough to help her.

[Xithras]

16. Whitman won't win.

Gropenhfurher is generally unpopular among the states conservative Republicans because he's conservative on business issues, but moderate to vaguely liberal-ish on a few others (he's pro-Choice, and generally a supporter of environmental legislation). He's managed to win two elections only because his fame has swung a certain percentage of the states Democrats to his side as well.

Over the last few weeks, I've heard a steady drumbeat of local and state right-wing media begin calling Whitman "Schwarzenegger in a skirt", and not in a flattering way. She doesn't have the support of the Republican party's more conservative elements, and she doesn't have the fame to pull Democratic voters in the way Der Shwartz has managed. She may well win the primary, but she will lose in the general.

Personally, I'd be far more worried if Poizner was leading in the polls. Unlike Whitman, he has the conservative support and the political experience to give Brown a real run. Fortunatly, the Republicans newfound love for Palinesque personality politics seems to be eliminating him as a threat.

As for Boxer, I wouldn't worry about it a bit. Fiorina has no chance. This state has seen large sectors of its economy decimated by outsourcing, and she's a HUGE proponent of expanding the H1-B program. After the primaries are over, you can expect the airwaves to be saturated with video footage of her testimony before Congress: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore." Boxer is herself an H1-B supporter, but Fiorina is an outright anti-American outsourcer who is personally responsible for the destruction of hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

[inna]

18. I hope you're right, but...

No one thought Scott Brown would get Teddy's seat, either.

[Iggo]

19. Ted died and it wasn't his seat anymore.

Barbara Boxer's alive and kicking. Not the same thing at all.

[inna]

17. +1,000,000,000,000!

We HAVE to keep her seat. God help us all if Fiorina takes her seat and Whitman becomes governor. :scared:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

23. I'm am not worried at all about Barbara's chances. She'll be fine.

She's very popular and from here to November is an eternity in politics. Many incumbents are hurting right now in the polls, but I am very confident that that'll change.

[KamaAina]

25. Repuke senate candidates are Carly Fiorina, Chuck DeVore and Tom Campbell

Fiorina nearly ran HP into the ground, DeVore is a red-meat conservative, and Campbell is a moderate who got scared out of the governor's race by Whitman's Meg-abuck$.

[Nikki Stone1]

27. Especially since Feinstein's seat is up for grabs when she retires

The moderate Republican running (Tom Campbell) is very palatable to lots of Californians because he is pro-choice and was on NARAL's approved list back in the 1990s. The state has gotten more fiscally conservative over the years and the chances of a Campbell win are good.

Boxer has been one of the few Dems that is reliable on liberal issues, especially social ones. She needs to be returned to the Senate.

[omega minimo]

32. Sen. Boxer stood up for us when Buschco stole Selection #2. Any CA Dem/lib/progressive

who doesn't vote for her is a fool. She is one of the best.

[Taverner]

33. Yep - agree 100%

[XemaSab]

34. I give Meg Whitman a 0% chance of taking over Boxer's seat in the next election

I'm not even sure I'm going to show up to the polls to vote in that election.

[Hippo_Tron]

37. That's a good prediction considering that Meg Whitman isn't running for Boxer's seat

[Cha]

46. It's Excellent!

I've been hearing from Barbara Boxer, Danny Divito, and Rhea Pearlman on donating to the cause for awhile now.

There better not be any weird voting crap going on, either.

[steelmania75]

49. The GOP has a chance in liberal California? That's not good at all.

[JI7]

50. Meg Whitman is not running for Boxer's Seat

[PufPuf23]

51. Boxer is one of the best pols for liberal Dems (and my Senator)

I will vote for Boxer and Jerry Brown any time they run.

DiFi needs to go and a liberal elected.