With just five weeks to the election, Republican Charles D. Baker has pulled even with Governor Deval Patrick in a gubernatorial race shaped by anti-incumbent sentiment and unusually high excitement among Republican voters, according to a new Boston Globe poll.
The poll results also suggest that independent Timothy P. Cahill is pulling voters equally from Baker and Patrick, raising questions about the conventional political thinking that his candidacy is undercutting Baker’s chance to defeat the governor in the Nov. 2 election.
I'm not so sure about the second part - Cahill's transparent attempt to pander to the Tea Party factions are a clear attempt to take votes away from Baker and not "Cadillac" Deval. It's interesting that despite fighting a two-pronged attack, Baker has managed to pull into anything even remotely resembling a lead. I love that part, too: "unusually high excitement among Republican voters".
A) Republicans make up a whopping 11% of registered voters in MA. They will be voting for Baker no matter what.
B) If this is the best spin the Boston Globe can put on Patrick being dead even - and losing ground - to the GOP contender, Patrick had better be greasing someone up in the Øbama administration for a federal gig.
In any case, it brought a smile to my face on this Sunday morning...
That is all.
2 comments:
Our State Governor's race has no incumbent running, (Pawlenty for President??? Not so much).
We have a failed senator in Mark Dayton whom comes from LOTS of money and Tom Emmer a scrappy lawyer whom is a Constitutionalinst.
Dayton wants to tax the rich and pour more money into our failure of a Public School system.
Latest bird cage liner, dog poop catcher, Star Tribune claims Dayton is ahead (of course they do!!!As MSM as they come) 39 to 32. Rassmussen poll says Emmer ahead 42-41 with Ind Bob Horner a distant third and with his babbling about using State money to build a new Stadium for the Vikings is putting him in a bad light.
But since this is the State that elected a failed actor and wrestler in Jesse Ventura and sent a failed clown to DC in Al Franken(stien), Dayton as a rich boy, mental issues, DUIs and failed Senator is probably a shoe in...
Sighh..
Maybe he can be Car Czar.
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