Reporters' Notebook: Exit Polls Show Barbara Boxer Ahead Of Carly Fiorina
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Challenger Carly Fiorina (Photo Creative Commons)
8:35 p.m. Tuesday
California Republican Party members are in incredibly high spirits at the "victory party" in Irvine, California tonight in the wake of Republican gains in Congress. Despite projections that Carly Fiorina, who is slated to speak the the crowd here later tonight, will most likely not be elected to the Senate, Republican Party members in the crowd are ecstatic about their new majority in the House of Representatives.
One woman, Linda Cerro, said that the wave of Republican victories thanks to the elections are "what we have got to do to get back to 'we the people'." She emphasized a return to the Constitution motivated, in large part, by the liberalism of President Obama.
--MS
8:15 p.m. Tuesday
With 1 percent of precincts reporting, Carly Fiorina leads incumbent Barbara Boxer, 49 percent to 44 percent, in the Senate race from California.
--BA
5:15 p.m. Tuesday
Leaked exit polls show that Barbara Boxer is 8 points ahead of Carly Fiorina in the United States Senate race in California.
--MS
2:30 p.m. Tuesday
Carly Fiorina voted this morning near her Los Altos Hills home. Barbara Boxer voted by absentee ballot a few weeks ago.
The evening might be a long one for both ladies, as ABC7 predicts that the final results on who will win the Senate seat might not come in until late into the evening.
--MS
2 p.m. Tuesday
Fifty to 75 media members are setting up cameras, scribbling notes and gearing up for Sen. Barbara Boxer's Election Night party at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood. Parking might be available on side streets, but it could be better to park at the hotel. This area draws the crowds and the people. The Kodak Theater is nearby.
USC senior fellow and political scientist Sherry Bebitch Jeffe says the Barbara Boxer-Carly Fiorina race for California senator will come down to voter turnout, from Aaron Glantz's article in The Bay Citizen in San Francisco.
In the article, Jeffe says the advertisements paint Fiorina in a more negative light than vice-versa.
A Field Poll expects 9.5 million California citizens will vote. Of those, 44 percent are Democrats, 39 percent are Republicans and 17 percent are Independents.
--BA
12:30 p.m. Tuesday
Carly Fiorina is scheduled to drop by her Irvine volunteer office to rally her supporters right now. This is her only scheduled appearance for the day untii the California Republican Parly election night party this evening.
Political analysts are still calling the Boxer-Fiorina race a toss-up; polls show that the race is still leaning towards going to Boxer. Election results can be viewed as they come in here.
--MS
11 a.m. Tuesday
Sen. Barbara Boxer cautions citizens about complacency, urges them to vote.
--Bryce Alderton
1:00 a.m. Tuesday
Republican challenger Carly Fiorina spent the last day before the polls open on Nov. 2 dropping in on supporters and volunteers in phone banks from Pasadena to San Diego.
Fiorina is going to be watching results come in with the California Republican Party tonight at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, California.
One interesting note about the "Victory Party" that the CA Republicans are hosting on election night: media must pay $450 in order to be given the password to access the hotel's internet connection. This reporter will be submitting her updates via her iPhone.
--Mary Slosson
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WE NEED A CLEAN SLATE TO STOP THE CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON
Remember! That if you are for the State of Arizona rigid enforcement of Immigration law which includes SB1070, it would be extremely foolhardy to vote back any Liberal-Democrat to the House or Senate, as they can do much damage to our wilting economy. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada has already promised to attach The Dream Act, to any new Amnesty. Senator Barbara Boxer is of the same mind, that the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens should be rewarded even though they broke the law. America has become a welfare entitlement landing place for the destitute of the world. Yet the American people are treated with indifference and rejected for their economic needs? The thought of adding another 2.6 Trillion dollars (Heritage Foundation estimate) to our already diminished reservoir of public services for the use of illegal aliens, is absolutely irrational. Casino head's have likely intimidated their staff to vote for Harry Reid, as the entertainment and service industries are well supplied with illegal workers.
The problem is, it’s a civil infraction and doesn't become a serious offense, until you reenter the United States after being deported? It up to the new Congress and specifically TEA PARTY members to uphold the 1986 immigration law, and perhaps make it a felony like other countries, including Mexico. None of the Incumbents want to open the proverbial can of worms, as they are all Pro-Amnesty. It would be like Icarus flying into the sun, with wax wings.No Liberal has any gonads to tell the truth of their so-called progressive ideology. Even Gubnatorial Jerry Brown has stayed silent, about what to do about the principle Sanctuary Cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, as both have been infiltrated by Liberal progressives, who want no border and the free flow of cheap labor. How can any Politician really even think of allowing a run on the border should there be another Amnesty, when millions and millions of Americans have no job?
Reid’s Nevada has the highest unemployment nationwide, and Boxers California have some of the highest jobless rates in the nation. The Tea Party and other proponents will not open the border gates, and will use a composite of the new state of the art E-Verify, to start dislodging illegal workers. The Tea Party will also be held accountable, as will those lawmakers already in Washington. That is the promise of the Tea Party to the American people. A new vision for this country is at hand, that will scrub clean the corruption in Washington, deep six the Liberal extremists, and stem the unfavorable tide of special interests groups that have crippled the people’s interests. Hopefully this will eliminate the Tax and spend mountainous problem, which is already out-of-control with revised 16 Trillion US dollar deficit.
More balanced free trade agreements and a revised Health Care package, that doesn’t bankrupt America. ATTENTION: Watch for irregularities at the Polling places and be observant of voter fraud with absentee ballots. LARGE POPULATION OF NON CITIZENS WHO VOTE COULD COMPROMISE ANY CLOSE RUN RACE. HAVING ALREADY VIOLATED THE LAW, FOREIGN NATIONALS HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE. CALIFORNIA, NEVADA AND OTHER BORDER STATES MUST BE CAREFULLY SCRUTINIZED.