Kerry is up for re-election in MA and can’t run for both offices (Sen & VP) at same time but who knows.
Have yourself a Kerry little Christmas
Cozy all the way
While the seat of power is so far away
You’ll be just one more lib in the Senate
Thanks to W
You won’t live on Pennsylvania Ave.
Ketchup heiress has lots of dough
Lots and lots of dough, to spend
It won’t buy you the White House though
For the voters know, my friend
Mondale, Gore, and also Mike Dukakis
Know just how you feel
When you’re seen, you just don’t have any appeal
So have yourself a Kerry little Christmas, now
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.”