Head to Head Polling showed Kerry ahead of Beatty 58-23. The 48-45 statistic was a bio poll im afraid.
That is the fly in the ointment. Still, it shows that there is a potential opening.
A couple of years ago, I was in Boston on business, and on the way back to the hotel one afternoon, I learned from the cabbie a very interesting tale. We were going past the State House, and he said there’s a side door that, under the charter (I think that’s what he said), only the President of the United States is allowed to enter through that door.
One day, for some event or other, Kerry tried to enter through that door, and they would NOT let him in. He threw a tizzy, but they still wouldn’t let him enter through that door.
Maybe a FReeper in Massachusetts could fill in the correct details, or debunk this tale.
Found it:
http://www.mass.gov/lib/facts/transfer.htm
near the bottom of the page. The cabbie was mostly correct. Cool.