NEW YORK CITY—It should come as no surprise that real estate executives turned to someone with a great business background in Globest.com’s survey of the “Most Savvy Politico” in the past decade.

In a tight race, Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee for the US Senate in California, won the race for Top Savvy Politico with 41% of the vote. Election Day was not as kind as the Globest.com survey respondents were to the former Hewlett-Packard executive, who lost in a tight race to Senator Barbara Boxer on Election Day. In the survey, Fiorina edged out Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who secured 39% of the vote for second place.

Budget-cutting New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who recently pulled the plug on the more than $8-billion Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) tunnel project because of the potential tax burden of cost overruns to state taxpayers, finished third with 29% of the vote. The survey was conducted as part of Globest.com’s 10^th anniversary.

On her website, Fiorina’s concession statement doesn’t read like someone who is done with politics just yet. She said the campaign was “the great privilege of my life.” She added that one of the reasons she decided to run for political office was because she felt “the American Dream was becoming too hard for too many people.”

She later noted. “To be able to live the American Dream we need opportunity, jobs, and a government who is on our side and who will listen to us. We cannot have a government who continues to spend the treasure of future generations. We need elected officials who remember they work for us. So I hope that all of the newly elected officials – Republicans, Independents and Democrats – will come together in Washington, D.C. and redouble their efforts to make sure that Californians and Americans have the opportunity to live the American Dream.”

The best of the rest in the Savvy Poliitco survey were: action hero and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (No. 4); President Barack Obama (No. 5); Congressman Barney Frank (No. 6); US House Minority Leader John Boehner (No. 7); US Senator John McCain (No. 8); Other (No. 9); and US Senator Charles Schumer, who finished in a tie with former Alaska Governor and one-time Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin at number 10.

On Monday: Look for the results of the Globest.com survey “Clueless Politicos.”

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