Sure, all those pundits on cable and inside the Beltway may be predicting a wave year where Dems lose the House and maybe even the Senate. But the tsunami hasn’t yet been reflected in three new CNN/TIME/Opinion research polls of registered voters in Kentucky, California and Florida out today. In fact, most races were tied or just within …
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Boxer v. Fiorina Debate
Senator Barbara Boxer and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who is challenging the California Democrat for her job, had their first debate last night. Fiorina, I thought, did surprisingly well but that may be due to my incredibly low expectations of her. As the L.A. Times notes, Boxer did well at holding Fiorina’s feet to the …
Today in Financial Reform: Not Much
The Senate began voting on amendments to their financial re-regulation bill in earnest Wednesday with changes from Barbara Boxer and the Shelby/Dodd tag-team sailing through on bipartisan votes. The ultimate impact to the bill? Not a lot. Boxer’s amendment was a three-paragraph gimmee explicitly stating in plain language what the …
Barbara Boxer Blimp
Demon Sheep Fred Davis has struck again, with an online ad I will post to this blog for the same reason that people slow down to look at car crashes. Almost lost in Davis’ oddly vicious humor is how generic the attack is. Also note the chalkboard scratch at 6:13: Wha? So Boxer is like a bad teacher?
Also note that the middle chunk …
Carly Fiorina Talks About Her Battle With Cancer
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is thinking about running for the GOP nomination against California Senator Barbara Boxer next year. Earlier this week, she put up a campaign website that got what could charitably be described as unenthusiastic reviews. “A little weird,” wrote Holly Bailey of Newsweek. CNN added that even her …