seems to promote Tom Campbell at the expense fo the other two, but that’s just my interpretation.

You are right, Erick, in saying that we need to unite behind Devore.

I knew this was true yesterday when I read DeVore was “unelectable” in California, without a poll citation.

…but he needs to catch fire in a big way to beat Campbell. We will see if that happens….

A good case can be made either way. Still, my money’s on Fiorina having the best chance to win this late in the game.

grossly oversimplifying the paradigm: if Campbell out-polls other candidates against Boxer, we should support him. That is if we are using polls based on the general match-up as a standard.

How about Chuck and Carly shake hands and agree to go after Campbell, who is the worst candidate (IMO) but continuously out- polls the other candidates.

My humble opinion: all this Chuck v. Carly has benefited one person, Campbell. That’s called conservative cannibalism.

I prefer DeVore. I don’ t like Campbell at all, and I have qualms about Fiorina. I will vote for DeVore, but I’m prepared to take whomever is the (R) candidate in the general.

Keep in mind, though, this is the loony left state of California. And let’s remember the goals here:
1) Defeat Barbara Boxer
2) Defeat Barbara Boxer
3) Put a Republican in CA Senate seat for the first time since… ?
4) Defeat Barbara Boxer
5) Hope for a reasonably conservative voice to represent California.

I hope DeVore can take the election. This is a unique time with a lot of angry voters. Even my tree-hugger hippie neighbor was ranting about union abuses, fiscal irresponsibiltiy, and the overall nuttiness of Obamacare. I told her “Welcome to the Republican Party” and she stormed off, cursing at me under her breath.

My neighbor will never, ever vote Republican. The best I can hope for is that she will stay at home.

…she’s currently sending the other half of our jobs to China.

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As of this morning (9:40 am), we haven’t had the primary here in California and I believe the absentee ballots have gone out.

So unless the Acorn-like substitute pukes have the ballot boxes pre-stuffed, ENOUGH ALREADY!

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Let our votes be cast for Devore and wash out Boxer from DC.

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It’s May. And DeVore is a complete unknown outside of conservative activists. His numbers right now are pretty much the ‘not Barbara Boxer’ numbers. Don’t mistake them for resembling in any way what they’d be if he were actually nominated.

I’d like to live in a state where someone like Chuck could win a statewide election of any consequence, but that’s not going to happen unless San Diego secedes from California (and if you’ve been to San Diego, you understand why I ain’t moving as long as I can pay the bills and live here).

One single point in one single poll with a MOE of 4.5% and you make this ridiculous claim?

The kindest word to use for this interpretation is “spin.”

Of course, using the RCP average of the last four statewide polls yields a different result – so let’s ignore that! And as others have pointed out, using this “logic” would mean supporting Campbell over both the others, so let’s ignore that, too!

Your grip on reality is beginning to resemble Kos’.

When you have to fantasize to make your case, perhaps it’s time to recognize you don’t have a sound argument.

Don’t worry – I’m sure Tom Campbell will send along a nice note thanking you for your help getting him the nomination.

but how do explain this…we have a candidate that polls better in the general than their moderate pick…yet they still insist we back the moderate who is the weak horse…

Who are the ideological, (or non ideological if you will), purists in the RPCA and the NRSC?

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

there has to be a point we make a choice and choose the candidate that can not only beat Boxer, but also beat Campbell. Chuck should stay in and fight like hell until either he is CLEARLY beating Carly or the other way around. At that point we need to demand the other drops out, gets behind the other, so that Campbell is not the elected republican, and then go beat Boxer. Like it or not, the line has to be drawn and drawn soon or it will be Campbell versus Boxer, and that is a crappy choice. One of the two has to be willing to let their pride go, drop out, so that a conservative in Chuck or a moderate in Carly can move on and keep a Boxer look a like in Campbell out of the main election.

Chuck Devore has my vote ! Fiorina endorced john mccain and his CAP AND TAX in last presidential ellections . NOW fiorina has flopped like a fish , and says she is against CAP AND TAX . Campbell has no backbone , and doesnt know , what he wants . CHUCK DEVORE has never swayed on his values and beliefs , unlike the rocking chairs campbell and fiorina

We should not get obsessed over polls. Primary voters’ preferences can change substantially close to the election, and more importantly no votes have been counted for any of these candidates yet.

If Fiorina were a strong conservative candidate she would be able to unify the conservative vote by convincing voters on the strengths of her ideas and her leadership abilities. When the party machine has tried to anoint a candidate who has not been able to build a strong coalition and solidify support on their own merits, we have often ended up with surprisingly weak candidates.

I used to like Campbell though he has shifted further to the left than I would prefer. Campbell is a RINO. He has been on our side of some issues and quite far to the left on others. Fiorina is a big question mark. We really have very little idea about what she really believes, or about what she will do if elected. I think it is quite likely that she is a RINO just like Campbell and just like Arnold.

It is not clear to me that Campbell has the killer instinct that is needed to win a tough fight in the general election. Carly is a wild card. What she has going for her is name recognition and the fact that Boxer has never had to run against a woman before. Nominating Carly is a gamble – she could turn out to be a tough challenger for Boxer or she could be a much weaker campaigner than expected. My vote will be for the best candidate in this primary, Chuck Devore, regardless of what the polls say.

When she became the head honcho at Hp there was lots of noise about how wonderful to have a woman at the head of a big corportation. She then proceeded to run the company into the ground. When they fired her with a 20 million +/_ severance pay she hit the tv circuit complaining about the low severance pay and declared the reason she did not get much money from them was because she is a woman. She was at Lucent before coming to Hp. After being at Hp I vaguely remember some suggestions that things were not all what they seemed when she was at Lucent. Is politics her choice because there are no options for her in the business communityr? She worked on McCains campaign and he lost. She has the Republican party’s old boy’s endorsement. I don’t know for sure what she is nor why anyone believes California would benefit from her being their senator, but there are some red flags here that have loser written all over them.

you guys are nuts…you all talk about the most important thing being defeating Boxer and electing a Republican and yet you are taking all these pains to pick Fiorina or DeVore so that they can beat Campbell. Campbell is a Republican too and guess what? He can actually win! Campbell has appeal beyond the Republican base, which you need to win because, in California, the enthusiasm gap is not enough to overcome Democrats’ registration advantage. Republicans in CA need moderates and independents and DeVore and Fiorina are not going to pull those in to the same extent that Campbell will. I’m for him because of his views, but the rest of you guys please, he is the best choice if for no other reason than because he can win in November.

When are people going to wake up and notice a RINO, is a RINO, even with lipstick on it. We need to take back our country by electing the right people to do this and not put into office those who are of the same cloth that is currently in Washington.