That Baker is within single digits of Patrick bodes well. That it's still some five months until the election, though, renders this point pretty well useless - there's still plenty of time for the GOP to royally screw this one up. What I did find interesting, though, was this:A new poll shows Republican challenger Charles D. Baker closing the gap on Deval Patrick, the incumbent Democrat, in the race for Massachusetts governor.
In the Rasmussen Reports survey released yesterday, Patrick logged 41 percent, Baker was at 34 percent, and Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent, was third at 16 percent.
A Rasmussen poll a month ago had Patrick ahead by 14 points, leading Baker 45 percent to 31 percent, with Cahill third at 14 percent.Wrap your mind around that for a moment. Baker has cut Patrick's lead in half in a month, and the Globe headline reads that the poll "suggests" Baker is narrowing the gap. At the same time that the independent makes gains, the Republican cuts the Democrat's lead in half. That's more than just a suggestion. That's an outright clue there...
Now, we've got four years to get someone to run against Lurch - or I'm gonna take out papers...
That is all.
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Baker might well beat Obama Lite. The key question is who Cahill will suck votes away from. He might siphon enough disaffected Democrats to heart Deval, but he also might attract enough independents who otherwise would have voted for Baker.
It's going to be an interesting and maybe even painful election season.
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