{"id":9861,"date":"2009-08-18T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-18T20:35:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:35:30","slug":"fiorinas-in-it-to-spy-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/18\/fiorinas-in-it-to-spy-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiorina&#8217;s In It To Spy On It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/10-reasons-people-hate-carly-fiorina\/\">Carly Fiorina<\/a> is a noted failure in such fields as <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/archives\/001693.asp\">business<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5279489\/hps-senate-candidate-failed-as-citizen\">citizenship<\/a> &nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/07\/business\/worldbusiness\/07iht-hp.2733504.html\">spying<\/a>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shanegoldmacher\">Shane Goldmacher<\/a>, she&#8217;s now going to give politics the ol&#8217; college try and has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneGoldmacher\/status\/3385811917\">formed an exploratory committee<\/a> for the 2010 Senate campaign against Barbara Boxer. <\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2010\/election_2010_senate_elections\/california\/election_2010_california_senate\">one poll had Fiorina as close as 4 points<\/a>, it seems to be the outlier as the bulk of the polling shows Boxer with a double digit lead. The most recent poll, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/statepoll\/2009\/8\/12\/CA\/339\">Daily Kos\/R2K poll<\/a> has Boxer up 52-31.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that this will be an easy fight for Sen. Boxer, as Fiorina can come at her with wads of self-infused cash. So, she will still need plenty of support. And plus, Fiorina has a ton of experience in planting bugs and tapping phones. So, we&#8217;ll have to use the super decoder rings to talk about the campaign amongst us Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Sen. Boxer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/calitics\">the Calitics ActBlue Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_13095441?nclick_check=1\">SJ Merc has a story on the race<\/a>. It&#39;s more blather about how Fiorina is going to give a tough race. &nbsp;But for another perspective, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jstrevino\">Josh Trevi&ntilde;o&#39;s tweets<\/a>. Trevi&ntilde;o, a conservative blogger and strategist, is a huuuuge Chuck DeVore fan, and seems rather pissed that Sen. Cornyn and the NRSC pushed Fiorina into the race. &nbsp;My favorite tweet: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This always bears repeating: Carly Fiorina was the only person fired by the &#8217;08 McCain campaign for incompetence. Think about that.<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jstrevino\/status\/3387418366\">9 minutes ago<\/a> from TweetDeck <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/10-reasons-people-hate-carly-fiorina\/\">Carly Fiorina<\/a> is a noted failure in such fields as <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/archives\/001693.asp\">business<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5279489\/hps-senate-candidate-failed-as-citizen\">citizenship<\/a> &nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/07\/business\/worldbusiness\/07iht-hp.2733504.html\">spying<\/a>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shanegoldmacher\">Shane Goldmacher<\/a>, she&#8217;s now going to give politics the ol&#8217; college try and has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneGoldmacher\/status\/3385811917\">formed an exploratory committee<\/a> for the 2010 Senate campaign against Barbara Boxer. <\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2010\/election_2010_senate_elections\/california\/election_2010_california_senate\">one poll had Fiorina as close as 4 points<\/a>, it seems to be the outlier as the bulk of the polling shows Boxer with a double digit lead. The most recent poll, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/statepoll\/2009\/8\/12\/CA\/339\">Daily Kos\/R2K poll<\/a> has Boxer up 52-31.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that this will be an easy fight for Sen. Boxer, as Fiorina can come at her with wads of self-infused cash. So, she will still need plenty of support. And plus, Fiorina has a ton of experience in planting bugs and tapping phones. So, we&#8217;ll have to use the super decoder rings to talk about the campaign amongst us Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Sen. Boxer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/calitics\">the Calitics ActBlue Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_13095441?nclick_check=1\">SJ Merc has a story on the race<\/a>. It&#39;s more blather about how Fiorina is going to give a tough race. &nbsp;But for another perspective, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jstrevino\">Josh Trevi&ntilde;o&#39;s tweets<\/a>. Trevi&ntilde;o, a conservative blogger and strategist, is a huuuuge Chuck DeVore fan, and seems rather pissed that Sen. Cornyn and the NRSC pushed Fiorina into the race. &nbsp;My favorite tweet: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This always bears repeating: Carly Fiorina was the only person fired by the &#8217;08 McCain campaign for incompetence. Think about that.<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jstrevino\/status\/3387418366\">9 minutes ago<\/a> from TweetDeck <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[310,760,7031],"class_list":["post-9861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-310","tag-760","tag-7031"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2z3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}