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Barbara Boxer Defeats Carly Fiorina In California Senate Race

BY KEVIN FREKING   11/ 3/10 12:43 AM ET   AP

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California Election Results

LOS ANGELES — Democrat Barbara Boxer has won her fourth term in the U.S. Senate, dashing GOP hopes of removing the liberal icon with a strong challenge from former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina.

Boxer's re-election Tuesday was not easy. She faced a multimillionaire candidate and a wave of attack ads funded by out-of-state business and conservative groups.

The campaign was among the most challenging in the 69-year-old senator's long political career, as she found herself defending Democratic attempts to turn around the struggling economy.

Fiorina blamed Democrats for failed economic policies, but Boxer turned the tables and said Fiorina represented a return to past Republican policies that created the recession.

Boxer also painted Fiorina as too extreme for most California voters on issues ranging from abortion to gun control.

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LOS ANGELES — Democrat Barbara Boxer has won her fourth term in the U.S. Senate, dashing GOP hopes of removing the liberal icon with a strong challenge from former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly ...
LOS ANGELES — Democrat Barbara Boxer has won her fourth term in the U.S. Senate, dashing GOP hopes of removing the liberal icon with a strong challenge from former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly ...
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supergenius02 03:02 AM on 11/03/2010
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How do you explain Boxer and Brown winning in California?

Check these nifty factoids from the U.S. Census Bureau:

At 10.6%, California has the highest percentage of residents who have less than a 9th grade education.
At 19.8%, California ranks 4th in the nation with the largest percentage of residents who have failed to graduate high school.

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Acynicalskeptic
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04:56 PM on 11/04/2010
I think her hair stylist doomed her.
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CarolinaYankee
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04:55 PM on 11/04/2010
Yeah, and she also thinks she was a great boss in the Private Sector too. No parachute out of this one, honey..you lost, no prizes for leaving, just leave.
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southdakotajack
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04:35 PM on 11/04/2010
She is not leaving until she gets a $42 million severance payoff.
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jazabelz
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04:31 PM on 11/04/2010
Probably thought she was going to get another golden parachute check!
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Uproar
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03:51 PM on 11/04/2010
Why does the headline on the main page say "But Fiorina refuses to concede" but the story says nothing about that?
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Golden rod
Lifes a gift.....Unwrap it!
78 Fans
04:54 PM on 11/04/2010
I have the same question.....what's going on HP?

note: thought abput using a curse word so HP would read this but we all know it is "blue journalism"
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Barbara Collins
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03:11 PM on 11/04/2010
It'll be OK Carly - you might not be a senator but you still have better hair!
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AllforClarity
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04:27 PM on 11/04/2010
hair today but gone tomorrow
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caseyblab
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02:53 PM on 11/04/2010
She is waiting for the giant sheep blimp with the red eyes to make her announcement from over the sunny skies of California.
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scottymac11
Facta non verba
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02:49 PM on 11/04/2010
Miss Warmpth she ain't.
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Malou0501
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02:35 PM on 11/04/2010
Nice hair cut carla!
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Opygollopy
The more I talk to people, the more I love my dogs
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04:04 PM on 11/04/2010
I cannot stand the woman at the best of times, but, she should be left alone when it comes to her haircut. She is a cancer survivor and lost her hair. Say anything you want about her lack of substance and lack of integrity, but, her hair loss is due to health issues and should be left out of the mix. Other than that, the door is wide open.
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jazabelz
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04:30 PM on 11/04/2010
Except that you would think she would take that into consideration when she mocked Barbara Boxers hair style! She can't hide behind cancer if she's going to be nasty about other people's appearance.
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Malou0501
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05:57 PM on 11/04/2010
I was referring about the joke she made about boxer's hair, not fiorina's.
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Minion
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02:29 PM on 11/04/2010
Ain't she a treasure.
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logic63
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02:17 PM on 11/04/2010
How very statesman like of carly not to concede. Ca. doged a bullet with that one.
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Golden rod
Lifes a gift.....Unwrap it!
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05:00 PM on 11/04/2010
Did she or didn't she?

I saw nothing on the article either way.

Apparently some HP "blue journalism"
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1jdgriff
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02:01 PM on 11/04/2010
Nothing new, she refused to leave HP too, they practically had to carrier her out the door.
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Golden rod
Lifes a gift.....Unwrap it!
78 Fans
05:02 PM on 11/04/2010
I remember that.....one report at the time said they threatened to have her bodily removed.

True or not she didn't leave on the best of terms.
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chicagurl
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01:56 PM on 11/04/2010
Carly, I bet Ms. Boxer's hairdo is looking pretty darn dandy now, isn't it? Check out the back view as she walks away and goes back to Congress while you get to stay home.
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logic63
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02:17 PM on 11/04/2010
well said chicagurl
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InfinteShibumi
Just breathe...
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01:45 PM on 11/04/2010
Maybe Fiorina has outsourced her concession speech.
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TheMiddleman
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02:58 PM on 11/04/2010
That would be just like her.
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parlimentMike
Don't settle for less evil, demand good
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03:45 PM on 11/04/2010
Ah, then it will be delayed, arrive slightly broken, and will require rework before implementation.

The date sill slip a little, but nobody could have foreseen that.
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InfinteShibumi
Just breathe...
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03:48 PM on 11/04/2010
Superb!
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lachihuahua
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04:54 PM on 11/04/2010
Love that! F & F because it's LOL funny. (nn)
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Martha57
Wake me when it is over!
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01:32 PM on 11/04/2010
Money cannot buy class and grace. . .Carly, you lost, show some dignity, please, thank you!
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drwtsn
Could I please get an upgrade to a macro-bio?
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04:09 PM on 11/04/2010
Right now she is thinking "I knew I should have spent another hundred million."
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