Ever since Republican Carly Fiorina decided to run against incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer for the California Senate seat, things have been close. Polls have been showing Fiorina trailing Boxer for the majority of their campaign time. However, Fiorina has closed the gap within the last 2 months, and the election on November 2 appears as though it will be a close one.

The latest 2 polls that were released on October 27 show that Boxer is leading Fiorina by a larger gap then the previous few polls showed. The Suffolk University and PPP polls both show Boxer with 52% of the votes and Carly Fiorina with 43%.

Both women have strong support from their parties, and the winner will most likely be determined by how many voters from each party show up to the polls on November 2.

The 69-year-old Barbara Boxer has held the the Senate seat for multiple terms, and has a long political background. Boxer has strong opinions on many topics, including supporting Obama’s Health Care Reform agenda, and she was a key proponent in forming an exit strategy from Iraq.

Carly Fiorina, has a lot less political experience when compared to Boxer, but she has helped run several large corporations. She was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard for 6 years, and has an MBA in marketing for business administration from Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

When the election results come in this November, it is hard to tell who the new Senator in California will be, but the winner is sure to have a lot of supporters.