Coakley up 15 - 17 points over Brown in Mass.

[Armstead]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/10/senate_poll_coakley_up_15_points/

Boston Globe

Democrat Martha Coakley, buoyed by her durable statewide popularity, enjoys a solid, 15-percentage-point lead over Republican rival Scott Brown as the race for US Senate enters the homestretch, according to a new Boston Globe poll of likely voters.

Half of voters surveyed said they would pick Coakley, the attorney general, if the election were held today, compared with 35 percent who would pick Brown. Nine percent were undecided, and a third candidate in the race, independent Joseph L. Kennedy, received 5 percent.

Coakley’s lead grows to 17 points - 53 percent to 36 percent - when undecideds leaning toward a candidate are included in the tally. The results indicate that Brown has a steep hill to climb to pull off an upset in the Jan. 19 election. Indeed, the poll indicated that nearly two-thirds of Brown’s supporters believe Coakley will win.

“She’s simply better known and better liked than Brown,’’ said Andrew E. Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which conducted the poll for the Globe....

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[Armstead]

1. Somebody out there likes me -- An Unrecommend for this?

[hlthe2b]

3. there's always going to be a luking Freeper or two...

to give their requisite unrec.... Especially on any post that even indirectly has to do with the late great Teddy Kennedy. :shrug:

[jenmito]

9. I don't like you but I still rec'ed this.

;) Just kidding.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I hope Brown get beaten like a rented mule.

The relatively few neocons we have up here are drooling rivers over this guy.

[bigdarryl]

4. MSNBC is trying to say Brown has a 1 point lead from another polling company

[WI_DEM]

8. yes the PPP poll:

here is what Daily Kos says about the PPP poll vs. Globe poll:

In this case, there's also an important timing issue. PPP points out via Twitter that this UNH/Globe poll was started five days before the PPP poll showing Brown up by a point. If the situation is changing quickly, which it may be, the more recent poll should be weighed more heavily.

What this poll definitely shows is something we already knew: Coakley has major advantages and should be able to win, given the composition of the Massachusetts electorate. It's all about the mobilization.

www.dailykos.com

[Recursion]

19. Coakley's ad is awful, but not that awful

She does that thing that W does where she talks with her jaw clenched. It drives me crazy. But I doubt a lackluster ad would make that much of a difference; I'm assuming it's different models of who is a likely voter.

[TuxedoKat]

5. That's interesting...

I just got an email re this race (begging for money) saying GOP attack ads were causing the race to tighten up. Glad to hear that Coakley is still well ahead.

[Rockholm]

6. Scott Brown is a tool.

[cleveramerican]

Coakley won with 46k votes/ Brown won with 17k

even if every dem who voted for the other 3 primary candidates stays home...
And even if every republican who voted at all in the primary pulls the lever for Brown...

Coakley will still run Brown over like a dog in the street.

His foolish snub of union members last week didn't kill him... he was already dead.

[Historic NY]

7. You'd never know that from some news sources..

Clinton is campaigning for trailing Coakley, Public polling a Democratic polling company has her behind, blah blah blah..

[jenmito]

10. Coakley will win. The media is trying to stir up a sense of panic. n/t

[Cha]

17. They'll never change unless

driven the way of the dinosaur.B-)

[bigwillq]

11. Every poll

I've seen on this race has a different result. I'll wait to find out what happens next week. I never take any of these polls seriously. Things often change when people actually get in the voting booth.

[graywarrior]

12. I'll be so glad when this is over

I just want to get her elected (even tho I'm not crazy about her)

[Mz Pip]

13. I don't know MA politics that well

but it is hard for me to imagine that the voters would give the seat belonging to the popular and much loved Ted Kennedy to this Republican twit.

I hope the Democrats turn out for this one and give it a BIG win.

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Brother Buzz]

15. Coakley will have a double diget win

MSM talking heads are trying to portray it as a horse race.

[Arkana]

16. Massachusetts is an odd state.

The Democrats aren't particularly enthusiastic, but by God they'll turn out to vote.

I know a couple of old folks a few minutes from my house who are the most boring people I've ever met. They're in their 70s, but the husband (they're a husband and wife pair) told me once "My father told me, 'Son, you know what the R in Republican stands for? RICH. And if you ever, EVER vote for one of them I will rise from the grave to beat your ass if I have to.'"

They would hang up on a pollster every time, but there could be three feet of snow outside and they would fucking put on snowshoes and go vote.

[Betty Karlson]

18. Let's hope they and the rest of the Massachusetts people

will show the pollsters that D stand for Dedicated Voters.

[Tailormyst]

20. I think we will be okay

I do think Coakley sort of thought she won the seat when she won the primary. She need to go fight a bit. Every vote counts.