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(Boston Globe) Senate poll: Coakley up 15 points
Boston Globe ^ | January 10, 2010 | Matt Viser and Frank Phillips

Posted on 01/10/2010 2:37:37 AM PST by Zakeet

Democrat Martha Coakley, buoyed by her durable statewide popularity, enjoys a solid, 15-percentage-point lead over Republican rival Scott Brown as the race for US Senate enters the homestretch, according to a new Boston Globe poll of likely voters.

Half of voters surveyed said they would pick Coakley, the attorney general, if the election were held today, compared with 35 percent who would pick Brown. Nine percent were undecided, and a third candidate in the race, independent Joseph L. Kennedy, received 5 percent.

Coakley’s lead grows to 17 points - 53 percent to 36 percent - when undecideds leaning toward a candidate are included in the tally. The results indicate that Brown has a steep hill to climb to pull off an upset in the Jan. 19 election. Indeed, the poll indicated that nearly two-thirds of Brown’s supporters believe Coakley will win.

“She’s simply better known and better liked than Brown,’’ said Andrew E. Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which conducted the poll for the Globe.

“If there ever was a time for a Republican to win here, now is the time,’’ Smith added. “The problem is you’ve got a special election and a relatively unknown Republican going up against a well-liked Demo crat.’’

The poll, conducted Jan. 2 to 6, sampled the views of 554 randomly selected likely voters. The poll has a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2010polls; brown; coakley; election; ma2010; scottbrown; senate
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To: GQuagmire

I noticed that. They sampled only 71 Republicans out of 554 “registered” voters. Are there only 12.81% Republican voters in MA. Meanwhile 31% of “likely” voters are not very interested in the election. I didn’t take the time to calculate every question response to the “interested” in election.


61 posted on 01/10/2010 11:56:21 AM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: eyedigress
Exactly, even crazy people in Tennessee are giving money to Brown’s campaign.

So are crazy people in California.

62 posted on 01/10/2010 12:04:39 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: sunmars

Not only him, Kerry is being dragged out after hip surgery to hobble around on stage.


63 posted on 01/10/2010 1:08:35 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Raycpa

“why is such a HUGE fraction of the state’s electorate ... INDEPENDENT?”

“Because “independent” means “even the democrats are too conservative for me”.”


If that was true, Brown wouldn’t be leading by like 65%-30% among independents in most recent polls.

(True, some independents in MA are ultraliberal Greens and such, and others are conservatives that can’t stand the local RINO GOP, but most are moderates that usually vote for the Republican in gubernatorial elections but more likely for tge Democrat in federal elections. The impressive thing abiut this special election is that Brown is getting huge margins among independents and, if Democrat turnout is as low as it well could end up being, he might just pull off the upset.


64 posted on 01/10/2010 1:11:16 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Zakeet
So according to the clowns at the Boston Globe Brown is not getting more support than any other Republican who ran for Senate against Kennedy. Any person with an IQ over 70 knows that this is a joke and a lie because even in super liberal Massachusetts the democrats are much less popular than they were just last year.

And tell me again why the Boston Globe is totally bankrupt?

65 posted on 01/10/2010 2:34:30 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: hsalaw

:^)


66 posted on 01/10/2010 5:58:03 PM PST by eyedigress ( now.)
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To: moose2004

Another scary thought is the 48 or 72 hour advance TV reports by the State-run Media relative to the Brown campaign.
We all know what the MSM can do — they bring in their in-depth reporters, dig up some last minute dirt, and ta ta -
their girl gets elected!!


67 posted on 01/10/2010 6:03:31 PM PST by Mr. Wright
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To: Zakeet

I hope the Boston Globe got their money back for that poll.

Not really, I hope the newsroom has to eat 3 day old donuts because they blew so much money on this poll.


68 posted on 01/20/2010 5:57:25 AM PST by listenhillary (FU Cass Sunstein - You are the embodiment of evil)
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