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Poll shows Scott Brown could top Obama in prez run
www.bostonherald.com ^ | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | Herald staff

Posted on 01/26/2010 7:45:57 PM PST by GOPsterinMA

If Scott Brown has kept President Obama up at night, there could be more sleepless nights at the White House thanks to a new poll that ranks the senator-elect as presidential timber.

A Newsmax/Zogby poll shows the Massachusetts Republican within striking range of Obama in a hypothetical presidential matchup.

The poll shows the pair statistically deadlocked if the presidential election were held today.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2010polls; 2012; 2012gopprimary; bho2012; brown2012; brownforpresident; obama; rhinobrown; scottbrown; ussenate
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To: GOPsterinMA
If Scott Brown has kept President Obama up at night

That is not a pretty picture.

41 posted on 01/26/2010 8:12:36 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (denial springs eternal.)
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To: MaxMax

I don’t think that was the point of the poll. It isn’t would Brown won, it is how far zero has fallen. After all Huckabee polled as wining too, and I don’t favor his running either, but put him against zero, it would be Huckabee hands down.


42 posted on 01/26/2010 8:12:42 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: LUV W
I agree, and think that is the point. Lighten up people, it's a poll not an election. As in a scenario v/s reality.
43 posted on 01/26/2010 8:15:04 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

I do not beat her today.

You may want to go off by yourself and put your invisible hand to good use.


44 posted on 01/26/2010 8:16:22 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: GOPsterinMA

If Scott Brown, imagine what Tim Pawlenty could do.


45 posted on 01/26/2010 8:17:52 PM PST by Mariner
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To: PieterCasparzen

He’s certainly overemployed at the moment, and has been for quite some time. The guy has never really done anything, except be a BSer.


46 posted on 01/26/2010 8:18:01 PM PST by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

If Brown runs for Pres. in 2012, he’ll have as much, if not more, experience than Obama did in 2008.


47 posted on 01/26/2010 8:21:45 PM PST by Signalman
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To: ItsForTheChildren

I don’t think that is the objective of the poll, but whatever.

Brown has been a state Senator for years, just to be clear. He has a record there, and unlike zero it is accessible, and unlike zero, he has been there for years, not one term with half of it spent running for US Senate.


48 posted on 01/26/2010 8:22:07 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I like Brown but I was the first to criticize liberals and young folks for their hero worship of Obama. Obama was elected because people liked him.... because he was “cool”.

Brown is a good guy but for people to say he is presidential is the same hero worship that got Obama elected.

No matter whether I like the guy or not, its not a good reason to elect a leader. People were naming schools and streets after Obama and I said that was usually reserved for people that have actually DONE SOMETHING. Obama did nothing and Brown has done nothing. I like the direction that Brown is going, I like his policies, but basically; he won an election... thats all he's done. If I say I want him to be president, then I am no better than the dumb people that I blindly worshiped Obama for no good reason.

49 posted on 01/26/2010 8:23:45 PM PST by envisio (Need tires? See my profile.)
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To: Frantzie

I have nothing against Scott Brown, but he is more McCain than Palin, so bound to disappoint conservatives.

Also, he looks like a guy with a big ego and might succumb to the soft soap the Dems in DC will slather on.

I am mindful of the fact that he didn’t say he wanted to kill health care legislation, just this version.


50 posted on 01/26/2010 8:25:18 PM PST by chickadee
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To: envisio

Not true that Brown has done nothing. BUT this is NOT his poll, for heaven sake, it is the papers. No one is suggesting he run, nor would he. And I really don’t think people vote in a poll like this for any reason but to scare Demonrats, and to show how neutered zero has become.


51 posted on 01/26/2010 8:27:13 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: GOPsterinMA

He hasn’t even been sworn in yet, has he? Let’s see what he does before we make him our nominee 3 years out.


52 posted on 01/26/2010 8:28:58 PM PST by hattend (Mary Jo, this one's for you! (Thank you, Massachusetts - welcome back to the union))
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To: chickadee

Palin’s pushing hard for McCain. She is great.


53 posted on 01/26/2010 8:29:54 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: chickadee; GOPsterinMA

Don’t know about that but I was floored by his victory speech. He gets ‘it.’ In actual delivery, he surpassed Palin. We’ll definitely hear more from Scott Brown in the near future.


54 posted on 01/26/2010 8:30:48 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: PieterCasparzen

That’s ok - he can write the Great American Fiction full of betrayals and lies and bad guys (Republicans and particularly those named Bush, who pals around with terrorists).

Michelle can write a book on “How to dress on the skinny.”


55 posted on 01/26/2010 8:38:26 PM PST by carolina71
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To: GOPsterinMA

LOLOLOLOLOL

Rubbing it in the faces of the democrat machine in Massachusetts!


56 posted on 01/26/2010 8:38:48 PM PST by onyx
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To: SamAdams76; GOPsterinMA
Well considering that Obama started running for president about 45 minutes after being elected senator, it can be argued that Brown already has much more experience in the senate than did Obama.

LOL... great post, Sam.

57 posted on 01/26/2010 8:41:26 PM PST by nutmeg (Congratulations Senator-elect Scott Brown!!! Gas up the truck!!!)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Obama is sinking in the polls because of Obama. It’s reached a point that even CNN — which likes to tout itself as the moderate news voice — can’t even keep Obama afloat anymore. He’s underwater in their poll too.


58 posted on 01/26/2010 8:43:06 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: FreedomPoster

Yeh, doesn’t everybody have a friend like that... like a Kramer. Except this guy is like a cross between Kramer and Dr. Evil.


59 posted on 01/26/2010 8:43:36 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: Mariner

I don’t want to imagine what Pawlenty would do, what I do know is he’s fallen for the Global Warming Hoax like all these RINO’s like McCain, he also wants to subsidize corn growers to produce ethanol. He’s soft on illegal immigration and crime.


60 posted on 01/26/2010 8:50:41 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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