Carly Fiorina attempting to overcome obscurity in GOP bid - Boston Globe
LONDONDERRY, N. H. — “Over the hedges,” said Carly Fiorina, former corporate titan and current longshot for the Republican presidential nomination, reaching across nearly three feet of low-cut bushes to shake hands with an eager supporter. For a moment, the supporter’s effort to greet the candidate appeared as if it may send her to the nearby chiropractor’s office whose sun-drenched courtyard provided a venue for Fiorina to deliver her well-honed stump speech. Fox News has stipulated only the top 10 candidates in the five most-recent national polls will make the stage, and Fiorina has been hovering around 1 percent. “You don’t get in without name ID, and without name ID you don’t get in, so that’s why I’m working hard to build name ID,” Fiorina said during a 10-minute interview in the back of her Chevrolet Suburban, parked near the chiropractor’s office,... When Fiorina announced her campaign in early May, fewer than 4 percent of New Hampshire residents had heard her name, she said. After being forced out in what she calls a “boardroom brawl,” Fiorina ran unsuccessfully for a US Senate seat in California in 2010. To potential voters, Fiorina emphasizes that management experience and implores them to recommend her to friends... Source: www.bostonglobe.com
