Crap. Fiorina 47%, Boxer 45% (Survey USA)

[kennedyphan]

The poll conducted 7/8 to 7/11 among likely voters. Let's pray Californians don't replace a reliable progressive with this loony.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=d525bd62-80d2-4884-86a1-8c48ad920150

[RBInMaine]

1. Survey USA is SHITTY polling. It's still early. Boxer needs to attack.

[kennedyphan]

9. Nate Silver ranks SUSA as 3rd best pollster in the USA

The poll is very bad news; but we shouldn't pretend it isn't news.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/06/pollster-ratings-v40-results.html

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. A Field Poll released last week also showed this race to be within the margin of error

[Davis_X_Machina]

20. Best poll in the business, Field is.

Counting on the common sense of the average voter to save the day is not a good idea.

Remember H.L. Mencken: 'Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it -- good and hard.'

[midnight]

2. K&R for Barb. Boxer.

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[LiberalFighter]

4. It's only July. 111 days before the election.

Elections don't start heating up until Labor Day.

[bigwillq]

5. Hello

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Bandit]

6. California is definitely growing more ignorant every single day.

California hasn't learned a thing from throwing out Davis and replacing him with a Republican. They thought it was bad under Davis and raised holy hell but it has gone straight down hill from there and not a peep out of all those that were so worried about their fiscal difficulties.

[RBInMaine]

8. The recession has hurt that state bad. It is a lot of frustration overtaking reason.

[Lebam in LA]

12. Boy isn't that the truth

I have a great friend and just found out that she fell for the Davis crap and voted to oust him. She is very ashamed she fell for it. The "govern by proposition" has really driven CA to ruin:cry:

[KeyWester]

13. "The "govern by proposition" has really driven CA to ruin "

Gotta blame the people of CA. Do they ever learn ?

[Lebam in LA]

16. Apparently, NO

[Hosnon]

18. It really has. California is a good example of the downsides of a more direct democracy. nt.

[RBInMaine]

7. The scarier one has Brown losing to Ebay Queen. Brown needs to get the hell out and ATTACK ! That

bitch is flooding the state with ads.

[MBS]

10. She's not only loony, but incompetent (remember HP, CA voters?)

.. and a nasty person, to boot.Please win this one, Sen. Boxer!!.. .UGGH.

[alc]

11. we're in for a long few months

if everyone gets up or down on every poll. At this point, a 30+% difference probably means something. 10% may be worth discussing. <5% is meaningless no matter who ran the poll (I guess it means there is a race instead of a blowout, but nothing to get up or down about.)

[blogslut]

14. meh

A two percent difference is pretty meaningless.

[MadBadger]

17. This poll is Just Wrong. Lets go through the details

It has Meg Whitman up 7 over Brown....BS

It has Obama with a higher unfavoribility rating than favoribility...BS

It has Fiorina getting 33% of the black vote....BS

I'm sure if I dig deeper and do some research I can find some more.

[slackmaster]

26. Ipse Dixit

I'd like to see a real authoritative refutation of the poll, but it really doesn't make any difference.

The only "poll" that matters will be the one in November.

[flamingdem]

19. Oh but let's all just continue attacking Obama, that's the ticket Dems, way to go nt

[dionysus]

21. i think some people, maybe unconsciously even, want a repuke in office so they can really get their

rage on 24/7/365.

some people aren't happy unless they're miserable, and even strive to make everyone else around them miserable, too.

[flamingdem]

22. Thanks for that insight. It's beyond me the attitudes I see displayed on DU

by so many. One hopes they are trolls but other things must be motivating them.

[wiggs]

23. Sad: are pollsters going after visibility and controversy more so than

accuracy? They are businesses and we all know that talk shows say crazy things and create controversy just to get their names repeated around the news and pundit cycle. Maybe pollsters think no one is talking about them if their results are entirely expected and unexciting for someone and outrageous for someone else?

After all, Surveyusa results were posted here with a significant number of responses already and you can bet the Fox pundits are quoting them re California. So I think pollsters would notice that they get many more quotes, many more television appearance requested when the polls show something unexpected. Perhaps their next poll will go the other way and show dems in unexpectedly good shape. More television appearances.

It's the Tweety syndrome.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

24. If Fiorina wins

I will replace my "WinTel" HP's with Apples. I have already sworn off of eBay.

[MedicalAdmin]

25. Most voters are uninformed.

These elections will come down to who can put up the most commercials and other media.

Thanks to SCOTUS the rich now own our election process. It's still democracy - one dollar = one vote.

[LibDemAlways]

27. I remember the day voters turned Gray Davis out of office and

replaced him with Ahnold. Some idiot behind me in line couldn't wait to vote for a movie star. Not only uninformed, but plain stupid.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

28. Gilroy to Burlingame

is Carli hater counry. Our children's hospital is Lucille Packard, our college is Stanford (with Hewlett and Packard Buildings all over the campus), and the community is solid with HP retirees -- who hate and despise Carly. People carry grudges and people remember who threatened their pensions and local institutions.

[SalviaBlue]

29. In today's paper: Fiorina way behind Boxer in donations.

Fiorina 3.5 million/Boxer 17.3 million.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/07/12/2004017/ap-enterprise-fiorina-faces-fundraising.html#storylink=misearch

Something doesn't add up. Who are they polling?