Carly Fiorina hopes to continue to make up ground on California Senator Barbara Boxer in the 2010 California Senate Election. The race has been pretty tight all along, but the latest polls show that Fiorina is slowly catching up to Boxer.

Fiorina hit the campaign trail again yesterday, after being treated for an infection in the hospital the previous couple days. The latest poll released by Rasmussen shows that Barbara Boxer is leading with 49% of those polled favoring her. However, Fiorina is only trailing by 3 percentage points, with 46% looking to vote for her. Of the people polled, 2% preferred another candidate and 3% were unsure of who they would be voting for.

Democrat Barbara Boxer has held the California Senate seat since 1993, even though she had considered retirement in the past. She had planned on retiring when her term was up in 2004, but ended up changing her mind to “fight for the right to dissent” against conservatives.

Republican Carly Fiorina will try and be the new face in the Senate by taking Boxer’s seat. She doesn’t have any notable political experience in the past, but she is a former businesswoman. She was CEO of Hewlett Packard, and thought by many to be one of the most powerful woman in business at the time (from 1999-2005).

Can Fiorina close the gap a little bit more to defeat Barbara Boxer, or will Boxer hold onto her seat she has held for 17 years? Find out on November 2.