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Poll shows Brown besting possible Senate challengers
Boston Globe ^ | APR 6, 2011 | Cynthia Needham

Posted on 04/07/2011 12:06:11 AM PDT by byteback

US Senator Scott Brown continues to enjoy strong favorability ratings and would defeat any of the Democrats -- including Governor Deval Patrick -- who have been mentioned as potential challengers, if the election were held today, according to a new Suffolk University/7 News poll.

The poll indicates that former US Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II would pose the strongest challenge to the Republican senator. In a hypothetical head-to-head race, Kennedy would receive 40 percent of the vote to Brown’s 45 percent. Kennedy, however, has indicated to leading Democrats that he has no interest in challenging Brown.

Brown would more easily defeat Patrick by 52 percent to 37 percent, Vicki Kennedy by 52 percent to 30 percent, and Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray by 51 to 23 percent. Though all three have been mentioned as potential candidates, Patrick, Murray and Vicki Kennedy have also said that they will not challenge Brown in 2012.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: brown; brown2012; ma2012; mass; massachusetts; senate
Good news for the GOP picking up the Senate. Bad news for those here who want Reid to be the Majority Leader another two years.
1 posted on 04/07/2011 12:06:20 AM PDT by byteback
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To: byteback
Bad news for those here who want Reid to be the Majority Leader another two years.

What fools want Dingy Harry to be Senate majority leader for 2 more years? Especially at FR?

2 posted on 04/07/2011 12:11:25 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

A rino like Brown is not any different from having a democrat elected.


3 posted on 04/07/2011 12:17:42 AM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: Lazlo in PA
What fools want Dingy Harry to be Senate majority leader for 2 more years? Especially at FR?

The fools who want to run unelectable candidates in Liberal states. Alan Keyes is a fine man but in Maryland he can't win. In Illinois he can't win.

I'm talking about those who aren't Reagan Conservatives and don't believe in a big tent.

4 posted on 04/07/2011 12:18:27 AM PDT by byteback
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To: byteback

I see were you are coming from. I don’t see any way around who ends up the nominee in these states. State primaries decide these things. I will just say that I was told that I would never have a even a remotely Conservative Senator again in PA after Santorum. I got Toomey, who is far better. It can happen in so called Blue states with the right candidate.


5 posted on 04/07/2011 12:30:11 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: byteback

Scott you are a closet Homo. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but you are not who you pretend to be.

You are gonna get spanked in the next election and not in the way you like.


6 posted on 04/07/2011 12:37:26 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Lazlo in PA

PA is a funny state where Pro Life candidates win on the D line. Mass is far from Pro Life and may be the most Catholic state in the US so lie cheat say anything but to offend those voters. They want Obama at Notre Dame as their model.


7 posted on 04/07/2011 12:40:31 AM PDT by byteback
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To: JaneNC
Let me help you.
The two Senate Independents Caucus with the Rats.

47(R) - Dingy Harry Senate Majority Leader.

48(R) - Dingy Harry Senate Majority Leader.

49(R) - Dingy Harry Senate Majority Leader.

50(R) - Dingy Harry still the Senate Majority Leader if Obama / Biden win the 2012 Election.

51(R) - Republican Senate Majority Leader, hopefully not McConnell. In other words, Scott being Reelected is NOT the same as a Democrat being Elected.

8 posted on 04/07/2011 12:50:24 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: byteback

Poll shows Brown besting possible Senate challengers

This just shows the democrats win either way.


9 posted on 04/07/2011 2:37:52 AM PDT by maddog55
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To: byteback

Is it fair to assume Brown will vote for a Republican Majority Leader if the Tea Party likes the same guy?


10 posted on 04/07/2011 3:48:20 AM PDT by stevem
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To: Kickass Conservative
The two Senate Independents Caucus with the Rats.

LIEberman is not an Independent. He's a much a Socialist RAT as Reid.
11 posted on 04/07/2011 4:13:52 AM PDT by Defend Liberty
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To: byteback

I would love to see Doofus Duval run and get killed so we would be rid of the mini-Obama.


12 posted on 04/07/2011 4:33:23 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: byteback

The Massachusetts Liberals are bent on electing Democrat Senators even if they’re Republican.


13 posted on 04/07/2011 5:11:47 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: byteback

There are just no Democrats who want to reclaim the Kennedy seat. And if they lose the Senate next year, no Democrat wants to spend life in the minority. They’d rather punt.


14 posted on 04/07/2011 5:15:18 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: byteback

Brown has shown enough movement to the left to satisfy enough Massachusetts voters to re-elect him.


15 posted on 04/07/2011 5:19:08 AM PDT by K-Stater
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To: Defend Liberty
Semantics my FRiend, semantics.

They're all a bunch of Godless Commies.

16 posted on 04/07/2011 9:19:51 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Obama was a tree, what kind of a tree would he be?)
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To: K-Stater

If Brown is the best we can get out of MA, then he’ll have to do. Better than another communist.


17 posted on 04/07/2011 2:48:46 PM PDT by Hawk1976 (It is better to die in battle than it is to live as a slave.)
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