Posted on 10/22/2014 11:11:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
National Democrats are haunted by memories of Martha Coakley's unforced stumbles and missteps in 2010, which cost them a U.S. Senate seat in one of the country's bluest states.
Four laters later, the Massachusetts attorney general might be about to blow another major contest: The race to succeed Deval Patrick as governor.
With two weeks left to go, a new poll by WBUR, which tracks the race weekly, found Coakley trailing for the first time against Republican Charlie Baker, a former health care CEO who served as secretary of finance and health under Gov. William Weld in the 1990s.
It's still a close contest: Baker has 43 percent while Coakley has 42 percent, well inside the poll's 4.4 percent margin of error.
But the troubling sign for Coakley is that Baker appears to be gaining steam down the stretch after consistently trailing throughout the campaign.
"It's one of several polls which over the last week or so have shown a movement toward Baker," Steve Koczela, the president of MassINC Polling Group, which conducts the polls, said. "Coakley has essentially been treading water while Baker's been climbing."(continued)
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LOL
“The land of Blue - Connecticut could go GOP Governor - GOP ahead.. and the Rhode Island Race is single digits Dem lead in the polls... Odd times.”
Actually not all that odd. 12 years ago five of the six New England states elected Republican governors. Unfornatley, Maine was one of them and it took us eight years to correct the mistake, at which point, Maine was the only state with a Republican governor.
Yes, she’s a moron. I certainly do hope she loses, that will be a real treat.
May pick up some reps in South & North shore areas.
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