Taking On Boxer

Obama came to Southern California yesterday morning to try and save Barbara "Dumb-as-a-Box-of-Rocks" Boxer's career.  I'm not sure a last minute L.A. traffic jam is going to be enough to do it:

California might seem the last state President Obama would need to visit to campaign for Democrats just 11 days before Election Day: he won here by 24 points just two years ago, after all.

The Republican Party is spending millions to help Carly Fiorina, Ms. Boxer’s rival.
But with a booming “Hello L.A.!” the president leapt onto the stage here on Friday to make the case for Senator Barbara Boxer, a Democrat locked in what is clearly the toughest race of her career.

Ms. Boxer has been on the outer rim of Republican targets this year. For all her vulnerabilities, reflected in polls that show voters unhappy with the economy and with Ms. Boxer herself, her political views are roughly in line with this Democratic state, in contrast with her Republican opponent, Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.

But Ms. Boxer is struggling right through these final days of her campaign for a fourth term in the Senate. Republicans — awash in money, emboldened by what they hope will be a national anti-Democratic surge, and sensing Ms. Boxer’s weaknesses — invested $4.8 million in a last-minute effort to pull this state into the Republican column, and said they were prepared to spend more. Ms. Fiorina said on Friday that she was investing another $1 million of her own money in the campaign.

“I’m as bullish on this race as I am anywhere,” said Rob Jesmer, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “I think we have a really, really good chance. Boxer’s time to kill Carly was September, and she didn’t do it.”

A recent poll showed 53% of Californians want a new Senator. Hopefully that will translate into a win for Carly Fiorina rather than a split field that gives Boxer a narrow win.