[nutmeg]

The Kennedy political dynasty is shaking in the aftershock of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s earth-shattering election, with a new poll showing U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy losing ground as he faces a well-financed GOP foe backed by Brown’s top strategists.

The WPRI-12 poll showed the Rhode Island Democrat with a 56 percent unfavorability rating in his district - a negative that grows to 62 percent statewide.

Only 35 percent of voters in Kennedy’s district said they would vote to re-elect him. Another 31 percent said they’d consider a different candidate and 28 percent said they would vote to replace him, according to the poll...

Wow, so Rhode Islanders are slowly waking up as well? I love it!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[NautiNurse]

So every morning 'fore I went to school
I popped some pills and snorted coke too
Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on
I wanted to leave this but I was a fool
Yet I always remembered what my daddy said
With booze on his breath on his dyin bed
He said, "Patches, I'm depending on you son
I tried to do my best, It's up to you to do the rest"

[Agamemnon]

Rhode Island: the little step child of MA who has attempted to bask in the "glory" of the Kennedy dynasty. I remember what it was like growing up there back in the '60's post-Kennedy assassination(s). everywhere you turned -- you couldn;t get away from them.

School bullitin boards with pix of the brothers everywhere, the little shrines. The endless Lincoln-Kennedy comparisons. Plastic pencil boxes with Kennedy kitsch all over them. Providence Journal propaganda.

And the only relief from it was "The Impossible Dream" Red Sox winning the pennant in 1967... with a hat tip to Yaz, Ken Harrelson, and Tony Conigliaro.

Maybe Curt Schilling can be persuaded to challenge Kerry next time.

FReegards!

[StarFan]

That explains why Patches called the Brown victory a joke which Brown said was a mean spirited comment. Kennedy is running scared and I couldn’t be happier.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Wow, so Rhode Islanders are slowly waking up as well? I love it!

Outstanding! I hope the Kennedy dynasty is enjoying its last political breath.