Posted on 06/17/2008 6:49:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Ain’t happening. Too good to be true.
One can only hope.
Recent poll results just from last night (WHDH-TV Boston)
http://www1.whdh.com/features/articles/hiller/BO80621
by Andy Hiller:
No one would confuse Deval Patrick with John Kerry, but they do have similarities. Both are lawyers with Ivy League degrees, both are liberals who like life’s luxuries, and both could lose their jobs.
When John Kerry won his senate seat in 1984, the Celtics were winning an NBA title with the original Big Three, and at the State House, Governor Mike Dukakis wasn’t even thinking about the White House.
Since then, Kerry has won three more terms in the Senate, but he hasn’t won the hearts of state voters.
Our exclusive 7News Suffolk University Poll proves it: __Just 38% of Bay State voters hope he’s re-elected in November, while 51%—more than half—want someone new__. Nine per cent don’t know yet what they want.
“These numbers signal vulnerability. In a perfect world, this would be a huge problem for John Kerry. The hook is, is there a candidate on the ballot who can beat him,” Professor David Paleologos, Suffolk University, said.
Governor Deval Patrick doesn’t do much better.
Gov. Patrick says, “...by the end of my second term...”
Patrick is already talking as if he’s won four more years, but our poll found only 39% of state voters believe he deserves re-election...and 41% want to give someone else a chance. Twenty percent are undecided.
In fact, given his close relationship with Barack Obama, many voters here won’t be surprised if Patrick is in Washington when the next governor’s race rolls around in 2010.
Asked if Patrick would join a President Obama’s administration 47% said yes, 20% no, with 31% not sure.
Andy Hiller, 7News Political Editor
“You are going to run for re-election?”
Deval Patrick, Governor
“Of course, that’s the plan.”
Andy Hiller, 7News Political Editor
“What if Obama is elected and offers you a job in his administration?”
Deval Patrick, Governor
“Then I will say, ‘Mr. President I’m honored to be asked, but I can do more good for you and the Commonwealth if I remain as Governor’—I’ve rehearsed that, thank you very much.”
Andy Hiller, 7News Political Editor
“Care to know what percentage of state voters don’t believe that?”
Deval Patrick, Governor
“No.”
I believe the Governor, because he’d be nuts to say he won’t take a job with President Obama so clearly unless he’s sure he wouldn’t.
But I also think John Kerry would, because I suspect Kerry has the same opinion of Massachusetts voters as our poll says they have of him.
I’m Andy Hiller, that’s my “Instinct.”
Oh yeah! Is it my birthday?
Just think of the “O - K” slogans and bumper stickers from their initials. Of course, if you use their first-name initials.......
“...and when the party’s two presidential nominees want to go out for dinner, they do it not over beer and burgers or Chinese food, but at the Four Seasons Hotel, where the dinner menu includes foie gras and a vodka-caviar gelée.”
Do they serve arugula as well?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
The messiah and the dork.
Can this stuff get any funnier...
Put him on the ticket and let's go over it all again - talk about stupid. Are the democraps that dumb. Anything is possible with a party that could look at all of it's governors, senators and other high profile people and come up with the PIAPS and the Magic Negro, as their choices for President...
Wow! What a day Obama is having! First the coveted Gore endorsement and now he may pick a “war hero” as his running mate. It doesn’t get any better than this!!
Muslim - Traitor Ticket... yippeee!!! It’ll be a fun fall.
Yeah, decorated with rice kernels on his butt.
What is worse than picking a VP candidate that lost in the last election for your VP? Picking the dork that ran for president and lost as your VP!
Looking at the picture of Gore and Obama from yesterday it occurs to me that Gore has lost weight. I interpret that to mean that Gore will be the pick for VP.
Absurd suggestion.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, and former Vice President Al Gore wave to the audience at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Monday, June 16, 2008. Gore announced his endorsement of Obama.
Yeah, I think Gore is looking slimmer. By August he’ll be back to his fighting weight. I think he wants back in the game and will be Obama’s Veep pick, probably with some environmental czardom thrown in. Politically it would be a great choice for Obama.
Kerry??? Tonk is gonna come back and haunt his arse big time.
You have to do the first initials together, then the last initials together. THEN, you’d have a chant to remember. Well, at least you’d have the frat boy vote...
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