“Carly Fiorina” on The Daily Caller

Much has been made of the rise of conservative woman candidates: from Nikki Haley in South Carolina to Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman in California.  Certainly, it’s nice to see strong women pursuing office, and reminding the public (particularly the media) that women don’t all believe in big government and agree with the National Organization for Women on what’s best for women or how to define “women’s issues.” (more)

The Independent Women’s Forum is calling Maureen Dowd a “mean girl,” in response to her New York Times column comparing female Republican candidates to characters from a Lindsay Lohan film about high-school cafeteria sniping. (more)

President Obama’s travel schedule this week says everything about which states will determine whether Democrats retain control of the Senate. (more)

Former Republican presidential contender John McCain reunited with his onetime advisor Carly Fiorina on the campaign trail Saturday in San Diego, offering a blistering indictment of Barbara Boxer’s record on military issues and calling her the “most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today” — an assessment he said he’d made while having “the unpleasant experience” of serving with her. (more)

Former President Bill Clinton and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will try to exert their influence on California’s political races this week, the latest in a long list of luminaries to lavish attention on the state as the Nov. 2 election nears. (more)

Democrats can’t seem to wait for Sarah Palin to be back on a ballot. (more)

Republicans need to take 10 seats currently held by Democrats in order to win back control of the Senate. Three weeks out from the midterm elections, this season’s pivotal Senate races can be divided into four categories. (more)

During a hearing held in New Mexico, Steve Michel, chief counsel for Western Resource Advocates’ (WRA) Energy Program, stated the belief that there must be a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) because otherwise no one would voluntarily use renewable energy resources. Why? Because they are expensive and untested. An interesting opinion coming from a man whose organization’s main goals are to “advance clean energy to reduce pollution and global climate change” and “promote sustainable energy technologies—such as solar and wind power.” (more)

Hot Air got an advance look at the new Carly Fiorina TV ad for California’s Senate race, and it aims directly at the results of Barbara Boxer’s 18-year tenure. It launches a new campaign website, FailedSenator.com,which will apparently be a repository of tough ads about the state of California and the nation and Boxer’s role in delivering it.  Turning California’s Central Valley into a desert, and people living in tents rather than housing — that’s the Boxer legacy, according to Fiorina. (more)

Thanks to a surge of support from the state’s Latino voters, two California Democrats in close mid-term election races — Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer — may be slowly pulling away from their GOP opponents, according to recent polls. But with a large number of voters, including Latinos, still undecided, both contests, especially Brown’s, remain toss-ups. (more)

The 2010 midterm elections have already seen the rise of the Tea Party, the defeat of incumbents no one knew were in trouble, and a fresh batch of self-funding candidates — not all of whom got out of their primaries with their prospects still alive — who were willing to trade their fortunes for low-paying, high-flying jobs as elected officials. (more)

Hoping to arrest an ominous slide in two recent polls, California U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina went on a full-scale attack against three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer as a tax-and-spend failure in a radio debate today in Pasadena, while Boxer painted Fiorina as an anti-environmental extremist out of sync with state voters. (more)

The news Tuesday that the Connecticut Senate race is edging close to a dead heat was bad news for Democrats looking at the national map. (more)

Harry Reid’s gambit to attach the DREAM Act as an amendment to this year’s Defense Authorization Bill failed miserably last week.  Republicans, who strongly oppose DREAM as a stand-alone measure — but might one day consider it as part of broader immigration reform legislation — weren’t biting.  Reid, however, never expected them to.  He wanted Republicans to vote DREAM down so that that he could continue to paint the GOP as “anti-immigrant” with Latino voters back in Nevada.  Reid’s been in a dead-heat with Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle for months, and may well lose his seat.  Latinos comprise 22% of the Nevada electorate, and voted 3-1 for Obama in 2008.  Reid desperately needs to get them to the polls. (more)

Democrat Jerry Brown has moved into a narrow lead over Republican Meg Whitman in their fractious contest for governor, while his party colleague Barbara Boxer has opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate, a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll has found. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — Both are former corporate chief executives, with personal fortunes, impressive résumés and famous friends. Both are conservatives who say that they have lived the American dream and fear for its future. And both are Bay Area women, with their eyes and ambitions firmly fixed on a change of address. (more)

(Reuters) – California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer has extended her narrow lead over Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in her closely watched bid for re-election in November, according to a poll released on Friday. (more)

In the California Senate race Republican Carly Fiorina is going after Sen. Barbara Boxer over her ‘arrogant’ comments to Brigadier General Michael Walsh in which Boxer asked the general to stop calling her “ma’am” and start calling her “senator.” (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — An unusually large contingent of female Republican candidates with strong anti-abortion views is heating up debate on the issue and could change the political equation in the next Congress. (more)

This past week I gave a speech to a group of investors. The organizer of the event e-mailed me the night before, asking that I please try to be optimistic. Well, that’s my usual habitat. But optimism has been hard for me this year. Our muddle-through economy and lackluster stock market, challenged by so many taxing, spending, and regulating problems coming out of Washington, are the reasons why. (more)