Poll finds Romney and O'Brien in dead heat [MA Governor]

Boston Globe ^ | 11/1/02 | Frank Phillips

[BlackRazor]

Of 400 voters sampled Tuesday and Wednesday, O'Brien received 41 percent support and Romney 40 percent, with only 5 percent undecided. Green Party nominee Jill Stein drew 5 percent of those surveyed; Libertarian Carla Howell, 3 percent; and independent Barbara Johnson, 4 percent. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.

[BlackRazor]

Poll Ping!

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[Diogenesis]

In all polls on the Internet and after each debate,
Romney won, BUT Dr. Stein beat O'brien by a point or two.

Would the Globe or Herald report that?

No way. Why? The Boston Globe is a Clinton/O'Brien mouthpiece
which daily attacks President Bush and US allies as it promotes Islam.

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[ClearCase_guy]

Yes, new Globe poll shows the race is pretty much tied. Ummmm, coincidentally, the Globe has a large story on it's front page today about how much pain has been caused by recent cutbacks in state government.

You don't suppose that the Globe feels Romney would be more likely to make program cuts? And that the Globe is trying to influence this close race by flagging the pain and suffering of people who depend on state social programs? They wouldn't do that in such a blatant way, would they?

[Lysander]

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem."

--G.K. Chesterton

[A2J]

I watched their debate the other night on CSPAN and I though Romney clearly beat O'Brien.

She is a major turnoff in the sense that she comes across as vicious.

[Diogenesis]

She is a major turnoff in the sense that she comes across as vicious.

and then some.

[syriacus]

The poll shows a significant reduction in the early double-digit margin O'Brien enjoyed among women voters, in part because her support among unenrolled women has fallen.

I can understand this reduction in female support for O'Brien.

As a woman, I'd embarrass myself if I voted for a whiner like O'Brien.

Camps spar over Romney word choice [Hillary tries to alter English]

[O'Brien] is acting like a very touchy, very paranoid feminist.

Shannon O'Brien ([aka] Mrs. R. Emmet Hayes), Hillary Rodham-Clinton, and Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz-Kerry have chosen to view Romney's words as an attack on the idea of women in politics.

Come to think of it, we are left to decide between two explanations for O'Brien's choice to be offended.

1. Either O'Brien really thinks Romney was attacking women.
   In that case, she is paranoid, because we know that the word "unbecoming" has been applied to male behavior many times. Hillary Rodham Clinton is also fully aware that the word "unbecoming" has been applied to her (male-gendered) husband many times.
2. Or O'Brien is falsely accusing Romney of sexism.
   Then O'Brien is guilty of libel and does not deserve to take an oath as US Senator.

I wouldn't care to vote for either a paranoid or a libeller as Senator.

O'Brien must tell all on husband's lobbying

[syriacus]

She is a major turnoff in the sense that she comes across as vicious.

I agree. She certainly had a very hard time expressing warmth, friendliness, openness or maturity.

She should go home and practice before a mirror some more, like Hillary does.

[syriacus]

Sorry. I should have said "take an oath as a Governor."

I've gotten my MN and MA elections confused.

[KellyAdmirer]

The most prominent example of a use of the word "unbecoming" I can think of is the phrase "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" in the military. The feminists are desparate and grasping for straws to keep their female supporters on the reservation (is that sexist too, Hillary?).

[syriacus]

The feminists are desparate and grasping for straws to keep their female supporters on the reservation

The feminists do seem to be running scared.

They are avoiding substantive issues and going back to the "headline grabbing" routines they employed back in the glory days of public bra-burnings .

They must be in worse shape than is immediately apparent.

I imagine Betty Friedan is looking more disturbed than ever, as she wanders the streets of Sag Harbor, NY.

[syriacus]

A VOICE OF WISDOM

by Cathleen Rountree

What better way to celebrate my fiftieth birthday than to spend it interviewing Betty Friedan? On my way out to her home in Sag Harbor on Long Island, New York, I imagined a pleasant, stimulating tête-à-tête with a catalyst of the second wave of feminism. An earlier telephone call had made me anxious about what to expect, when she was unfamiliar with me, my work, and the purpose of my upcoming visit. I had often heard from those who had previous experience with her that Betty was “difficult,” but just what that meant, I hadn’t known, exactly. So I had attributed her uninformed state to an overly hectic schedule.

            “Are you George?” Betty asked me when she opened the door. “Not the last time I looked,” I answered, somewhat puzzled. It wasn’t until we sat down in her living room that I understood: “George” was George, the magazine of politics and popular culture, which was also interviewing Betty that same week. .....

Our interview had a rather rocky start, including a few accusations on Betty’s part that I felt were unwarranted: “You obviously suffer from ageism”; “You’re operating from an obsolete concept”; “I said what I said, not what I didn’t say.”

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