Poll shocker: Scott Brown surges ahead in Senate race

Boston Herald ^ | Jan 15, 2010 | Jessica Van Sack

[bitt]

.."Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.

Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.

“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”

The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead. Unenrolled long-shot Joseph L. Kennedy, an information technology executive with no relation to the famous family, gets 3 percent of the vote. Only 1 percent of voters were undecided.

Paleologos said bellweather models show high numbers of independent voters turning out on election day, which benefits Brown, who has 65 percent of that bloc compared to Coakley’s 30 percent. Kennedy earns just 3 percent of the independent vote, and 1 percent are undecided.

Given the 4.4-point margin of error, the poll shows Coakley could win the race, Paleologos said. But if Brown’s momentum holds, he is poised to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - and to halt health-care reform, the issue the late senator dubbed “the cause of my life.”...

[Mrs. Don-o]

THE BIG
SCOTT BROWN!
WHERE-SO-EVER YOU MAY BE
DO IT NOW OR IT WILL FOREVER BE TOO LATE
TO-DO LIST

• For a little heart-thumpitty motivational buzz, rev yourself up with this short, stirring video, Massachusetts Miracle :o)

• People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank!

• Anyone… Anywhere… Contribute!

• Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.

• If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.

(If I pinged you before, please forgive me: I'm trying to inspire more active support for The Man That’s Got to Win.)

[William Tell 2]

See Darkwolf’s reply

[William Tell 2]

See Stephenjohnbankers reply.

[FrdmLvr]

Please repost this as a thread! Then post it on the Mass. board. (thank you!)

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Mrs. Don-o]

THE BIG
SCOTT BROWN!
WHERE-SO-EVER YOU MAY BE
DO IT NOW OR IT WILL FOREVER BE TOO LATE
TO-DO LIST

• For a little heart-thumpitty motivational buzz, rev yourself up with this short, stirring video, Massachusetts Miracle :o)

• People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank!

• Anyone… Anywhere… Contribute!

• Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.

• If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.

(If I pinged you before, please forgive me: I'm trying to inspire more active support for The Man That’s Got to Win.)

[danamco]

We need to be on our knees this week and ahead with lots of prayers going up

[stephenjohnbanker]

See 216.

[danamco]

Isn’t Bill coming to town???

[Uncledave]

He voted early absentee, and is as giddy as a girl.

Absentee voting should be avoided if at all possible. Those are the first votes that get delayed or "lost".

[AuH2ORepublican]

“And I’ll tell you this - if somehow Scott does take some of those southern suburbs, it’ll signal a sea change perhaps never seen before in National electoral history.”

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If Brown wins the election, I have to assume that he will carry Dedham, Milton, Needham and Quincy (all of which were carried by Romney in the 2002 gubernatorial election).

[danamco]

Send him some “dough” and do it for Mary Joe, NOT for Teddy!!!

[Dante3]

bttt

[CPT Clay]

Looks as thought Deval Patrick is toast as well!!

I predict Brown 52 Coakley 47 Kennedy 1

[Mrs. Don-o]

THE BIG
SCOTT BROWN!
WHERE-SO-EVER YOU MAY BE
DO IT NOW OR IT WILL FOREVER BE TOO LATE
TO-DO LIST

• For a little heart-thumpitty motivational buzz, rev yourself up with this short, stirring video, Massachusetts Miracle :o)

• People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank!

• Anyone… Anywhere… Contribute!

• Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.

• If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.

(If I pinged you before, please forgive me: I'm trying to inspire more active support for The Man That’s Got to Win.)

[CPT Clay]

Take the valve stems out of the tires in the busses in NY and Philly?

[Mrs. Don-o]

THE BIG
SCOTT BROWN!
WHERE-SO-EVER YOU MAY BE
DO IT NOW OR IT WILL FOREVER BE TOO LATE
TO-DO LIST

• For a little heart-thumpitty motivational buzz, rev yourself up with this short, stirring video, Massachusetts Miracle :o)

• People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank!

• Anyone… Anywhere… Contribute!

• Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.

• If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.

(If I pinged you before, please forgive me: I'm trying to inspire more active support for The Man That’s Got to Win.)

[CPT Clay]

He is shocking in his directness.

This is the profile of the winning candidate all over the country in 2010!!!

[CPT Clay]

I Think the Machine might be a bit rusty.

[danamco]

That reminds me of WHERE the real Tea Party took place the first time!!!