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Obama Flies In to Give Sen. Boxer a BoostPosted on Apr 19, 2010
The president didn’t mince words Monday during a Los Angeles fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer’s bid for re-election, warning “she might not win this thing.” One poll has Boxer about even with the competition, which has yet to be decided by state Republicans. AP reports that Boxer brought up the tea party movement and a lack of corresponding enthusiasm on her side of the spectrum. She probably still has the edge—she is the incumbent, after all—but it must be alarming for Democrats that one of the Left Coast’s most popular liberals is feeling the heat. The big guns are needed elsewhere, in districts and states where the Democrats are really struggling. Of course if the economy is the big issue in the 2010 elections, then it makes sense that races in states where the housing crisis went nuclear (California, Nevada, Florida) and unemployment is running high are giving incumbents reason to worry. It’s not necessarily a Democratic problem, either. Look at the political hurricane that developed in Gov. Charlie Crist’s Florida. —PZS
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By C Quil, April 20, 2010 at 9:36 am Link to this comment
Obama Flies In to Give Sen. Boxer a Boost
That headline sounds a little risqué.
Does Michelle know about this?
Report thisBy Commune115, April 20, 2010 at 12:58 am Link to this comment
California is a Banana Republic. Everybody pays attention to Los Angeles, but consider The Valley, the world’s mightest agricultural zone, it is a wasteland where the working class is under increasing assault by corporate interests or is simply brushed aside and fully ignored by the “state government” which doesn’t seem to be capable of doing anything except possibly legalize marijuana (which is a positive, but the state’s problems are more serious than the freedom to smoke weed legally). Boxer hasn’t done much for California, just like the rest of our state politicians, ESPECIALLY the brain dead governor. We are one of the biggest economies in the world, I’m talking about California, and yet we look like a Third World country run by a tiny oligarchy.
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