Reply #10: Is Steve Kornaki gullible or does he have an agenda.

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After a very idiotic article on Kerry a few weeks ago (poor Kerry, he wont be anything. Nobody likes him), he now has an article declaring Brown unbeatable. His source, an alleged poll by the DSCC that nobody has seen except an anonymous DC insider that would put Brown at ridiculously high approval ratings (never seen in previous polls). It is not even clear who described the poll to him, the DC insider, somebody who talked to the DC insider? Who knows.
http://www.salon.com/news/scott_brown/?story=/politics/war_room/2011/03/31/scott_brown_2012_poll

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But the DSCC received some bad news this week when a poll it commissioned found that Brown's popularity is soaring. The survey, which has been seen by at least one D.C. insider and was detailed for Salon,
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Or is he just promoting his own article in the Boston Globe:

This is why in a recent Op-Ed for the Boston Globe I likened Brown to William Weld -- the Republican who won Massachusetts' governorship in something of a fluke in 1990, only to build enormous popularity by picking some high-profile fights with his own national party. When he sought reelection in 1994, every big-name Democrat in the state who'd been talked up as a prospect -- Paul Tsongas, Joe Kennedy, Ray Flynn, John Silber and on and on -- passed. Weld ended up posting a record-shattering 42-point landslide over a hapless state representative.

I only have one word (well, three) for Kornaki: Kerry beat Weld.

Can Salon get a decent writer.

EDIT: and, in our good Internet world, Slate repeats, even if they have no more sources than Kornaki. If it is on the web, it must be true.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/03/31/martha-coakley-probably-should-have-shook-some-hands-outside-of-fenway-in-the-cold.aspx

Also, can we start having some serious candidates.