CA US Senate 2010 Election: CBS 5 KPIX-TV/ SurveyUSA Poll Shows Republican Fiorina Widens Lead Over Democrat Boxer 47% to 42% Just when the Democrats thought it was safe to go back in the water … a CBS 5 KPIX-TV poll shows that Republican challenger Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer in the polls 47% to 42% for the battle for the 2010 California US Senate seat. Could this really be … CALIFORNIA DREAMING! Fiorina (left), Boxer, (rt) Full poll results can be seen HERE. California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer to five percentage points according to a new CBS 5 KPIX-TV poll released Thursday, which also shows gubernatorial candidates Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman in a dead heat. The CBS 5 poll, conducted by the research firm SurveyUSA, showed Fiorina edging Boxer 47 percent to 42 percent, compared to a CBS 5 poll one month ago showing Fiorina over Boxer 47 to 45 percent.
The polling shows just how much trouble Democrats are in for in the 2010 midterm election.
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If the election of President Obama was the embodiment of hope, this election is the embodiment of all that is wrong with the state's political process. Instead of "Change You Can Believe In," we face "Continued Decline You Can Count On. " California is the mirror image of Toyota -- struggling with uncontrolled deceleration. The once prosperous Golden State that was the envy of the nation for its infrastructure and education system has the third worst unemployment rate in the country; it ranks 40th in overall infrastructure spending while its bridges and dams fall into disrepair and its education system is now compared to Mississippi. Even worse, budget cuts have taken their toll on the jewel in the crown -- the state universities that have produced 57 Nobel Prizes and fueled the state's economic growth. Facebook. Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good - Heyday Books. Edited by R.
Jeffrey Lustig What went wrong in California and how we can fix it California is locked in a constitutional crisis. Its schools are in decline, its water system near collapse, and its prisons in disarray. It is unable to avoid a yearly budget crisis, maintain its public facilities, or care for its sick. In Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good, leading writers and scholars probe the roots of this crisis, trace its effects on people’s lives and the environment, and propose reforms to remedy problems and restore the state’s democratic promise.
Remaking California is timely and urgent. Advance Praise “California faces a dark age without parallel unless Sacramento retrieves the capacity to represent the needs of the majority. —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and In Praise of Barbarians —Peter Schrag, author of Paradise Lost and Not Fit for Our Society “California has become a beached whale. —David Kipen, National Book Critics Circle R.