Would Carly Fiorina (R-California) win a rematch in 2016 against Barbara Boxer?

[free my dawg]

why does this thread exist

and why would you bump a 4 month old thread

[sg0508]

The GOP can't get rid of her.  The Primary is the only way the GOP will be Mrs. Boxer finally go. 

She has been vulnerable though.  She was neck/neck back in '98 and in '10 until the Democrats came home.  2010 should have been the year to really make her sweat, but Fiorina faded once Whitman's campaign for governor went under.

[Clermont County GOPer]

I think if Fiorina runs or anything it will be in Virginia not California

[Badger]

Of course not. Don't be foolish.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

She now lives in Virginia. I never knew that until now. She can probably run for Virginia governor in 2017 or some other office there.

She should change her name to Virginia and then lose a race there, and then find a new state to take the name of and lose in. Because Carly Fiornia sounds like Arnold saying California.

[MATTROSE94]

Even in 2010, she still lost by 10. NO

She would lose by 20 in a Presidential year with the Democratic nominee carrying California by a huge margin.

[CapoteMonster]

The better candidate would be Tom Campbell. He's actually smart unlike his party nationally and statewide. Though a election year makes it a very daunting task for anyone to unseat Boxer.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Nope.

I do think there's some folks in the Golden State who are getting tired of Boxer and Feinstein clogging up the oxygen with those 2 U.S. Senate seats.

Newsome and Harris are likely running for higher statewide offices in 2018 (one of whom will run for Governor once Moonbeam finishes his long tenure of 16 years and the other will need DiFi to retire from the Senate to avoid a bloodbath primary for the governorship).

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Boxer was never seriously in danger in 2010. There's just no way for a Republican to get to 50% in a race for U.S. Senate given the way the state currently exists politically and culturally.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Boxer was never seriously in danger in 2010. There's just no way for a Republican to get to 50% in a race for U.S. Senate given the way the state currently exists politically and culturally.

Before the jungle primary/runoff system we have now, I could see a Republican winning a senate race under razor sharp perfect circumstances -- Green candidate siphoning off enough votes from the Democrat to push him/her under 50%, a good Republican year, bad Democratic candidate/good Republican, not a strong showing from Libertarians -- could have led to a Republican plurality victory.

Now with only two candidates on the November ballot, with them virtually guaranteed to be one Democrat and one Republican, there's no chance.

[Sbane]

Yeah, the national GOP brand is too toxic currently for Republicans to win statewide. I could see a moderate Republican who is pro-SSM, Marijuana and Abortion winning but if they get tied at all to the national party they lose. And this candidate would likely need to be fairly moderate on fiscal issues as well, and it's hard to see such a candidate being backed by GOP primary voters (even with the top two system).