Posted on 01/18/2010 8:30:26 AM PST by Palmetto Patriot
If Martha Coakley loses tomorrow it will certainly have a lot to do with her running a poor campaign, but ultimately it will be a repudiation of the President.
Scott Brown is winning 20% of the vote from people who voted for Barack Obama last year, but these are not people who think he's doing a great job and just think Coakley is a duddy candidate. For the most part it's people who voted for Obama and aren't happy with how he's performed in office. Among the Obama/Brown voters just 22% approve of the President's work and only 13% support his health care plan.
Coakley is leading Brown 87-10 among voters who still approve of Obama, so it's not as if she's losing a ton of support from people who are still happy with him. Brown has a 96-3 lead with ones who disapprove of Obama.
Coakley has run a bad campaign, no doubt. But the state of the race in Massachusetts is more a function of unhappiness with Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats than anything having to do with her.
Bush’s Fault!!
Hope so. I have a friend who is so pro obummer it’s sickening. I can’t wait until this election happens! It’s going to be so much fun!
Any guess what the demographic of these people is ...
No mention of independents?
I said in another thread yesterday is people are voting against Obama. They are not saying it because it would be “racist.” I bet a lot of people in MA who voted for Hussein are horrified how he is turning out.
Amazing! Beyond belief, in this Bluest of Blue States!
If the Stupid Party has any functioning neurons, they will make every political campaign for the next 3 years a referendum against Obama.
Just love the fact that the drunk son of Teddy kept calling her Maria.
We know he had Tia Maria cocktails on his mind.
That Paddy sure is a chip off the old block.
You win that bet. I have family here in MA who voted for Hussein and are now some of his loudest critics. They're pissed at what has been going on.
On Wednesday, Brown warned Obama to “stay away” from Massachussets.
Obama should have heeded. His flashy visit probably cost Coakley some votes.
“Brown is up 64-32 with independents and is winning 20% of the vote from people who supported Barack Obama in 2008 while Coakley is getting just 4% of the McCain vote.”
- From last night’s release of the poll:
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/01/massachusetts-senate-poll.html
Coakley has run a complacement campaign (and made some major errors along the way), while Scott’s has proved to be a textbook little ‘campaign that could.’ However, more than anything, this vote is a referendum on Obamacare...and if it doesn’t make the grade in Mass, just imagine how the more moderate states in the country feel about it!
*complacent
Are the Aporn people at play up there???
I have two elderly more distant relatives who voted for him and I will not talk to them.
Scott is fantastic but a lot of it is MA folks voting again Obama. No one is saying it. I bet some of your relatives are in that group.
Nothing against them but I am amazed at how naive people were in support the Kenyan.
I think he was calling her Marcia.
You’re right. Thanks for the correction.
He obviously has a Brady Bunch fetish.
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