First MA post primary poll - Patrick 64 - Healey 25 - Can we keep it this

[Mass]

way?

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=8d744a71-5bc6-43b9-bd0b-729d88f0f5ff&c=24

Patrick 64
Healey 25

[whometense]

1. wow.

I LIKE that!!

[ginnyinWI]

2. yes!

Pay no attention to the blithering idiots on TV. This election is going to be a Democratic tsunami! TV pundits are either in the pockets of the GOP, or else are just spinning as much as they can so that it looks like a real horse race. But the polls say that everyone is disgusted with Congress. Keep on working, but be happy!

[TayTay]

3. What it looked like 4 years ago

O'Brien sees Herald poll as sign of trend
Boston Herald, All, Sec. News, p 6 (09-21-2002)
By ELISABETH J. BEARDSLEY and JOE BATTENFELD

Democrat Shannon P. O'Brien seized on a new Herald poll yesterday as evidence that voters are rallying to her gubernatorial candidacy, but GOP rival Mitt Romney said he expects a close fight to the end.

The Herald poll, the first since O'Brien won Tuesday's Democratic primary, showed her holding a 45-42 percent edge over Romney.

The treasurer's slim lead falls within the poll's 4.9 percent margin of error, making the race a statistical dead heat.

O'Brien, however, got a clear boost from her primary win, with voters giving her a 60 percent favorability mark. A pre-primary Herald poll showed her losing to Romney by 12 points. "People have confidence in my job performance," O'Brien said. "They know that I've cleaned up the Treasury and the Lottery. They know that I've returned a record amount of local aid. That's probably why my job performance is so high."

Romney brushed off O'Brien's surge, saying he has always expected the race to be tight given the Democrats' huge numerical advantage over Republicans among registered voters in the state.

"Polls go up and down," Romney said. "I've said that time and again. I expected this to be a close race from the beginning and I think it's going to be a battle down to the finish."

The poll did provide good news for Romney, showing that by a 40-27 percent margin, voters view the Republican businessman as the reformer in the race.

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I flat out disbelieve this poll. There is no possible way that those numbers will hold for the next two weeks. This race has to be run as though it is neck-and-neck, because of the money factor.

[karynnj]

4. WOW!!

[ProSense]

5. That's awesome! n/t