CA: Survey USA: Fiorina defeats Boxer by 5

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

OH MY GOD HELP THESE HAMBURGERS ARE EATING PEOPLE

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Boxer's "call me senator" is, I would argue, a more serious offense (this year) because it plays exactly into the narrative that Republicans want to create. Vitter's scandal was humanizing -- and hit long enough ago that the most ugly of wounds have healed. Boxer's statement is the exact opposite -- it plays her up as a privileged class, someone better than these simple voters who will cast ballots this November to determine her fate.

It's not enough alone to topple Boxer, but consider this: There's only one conceivable way Boxer will lose this year, and that's if voters decide "she's been there too long."

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

FYI, Fiorina probably couldn't use the "call me Senator" thing in an ad because video of it is copyrighted by C-SPAN.

C-SPAN can't copyright video of the U.S. Senate, because they don't own it. The federal government does.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

But, as Vepres pointed out, the crosstabs are ridiculous.

You can't really make any judgments based on one individual crosstab, especially one like "black," which only encompasses 7% of the total sample. You're looking at margins of errors in the double digits.