Posted on 10/08/2012 1:38:59 PM PDT by matt04
Democratic President Barack Obama’s lead over Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is growing in Massachusetts, and is now up to 30 points, according to a new poll conducted by the Western New England University Polling Institute for The Republican and MassLive.com.
The poll, conducted Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, finds Obama getting support from 63 percent of likely Massachusetts voters compared to 33 percent for Romney, with 3 percent undecided. The poll does not take into account the impact of the first presidential debate - in which Romney was widely viewed as the winner - since only one night of polling was done after that.
The results are not surprising. Though Romney is the former Massachusetts governor, he has consistently trailed Obama by double digits in his liberal-leaning home state. The bigger question is how the presidential race will affect the tight U.S. Senate race between Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren. The poll suggests that Obama’s growing lead does not necessarily give Warren an advantage. Since the last poll conducted for The Republican and MassLive.com on Sept. 6-13, Brown has actually picked up more Obama supporters than Warren has.
Warren is now getting support from 76 percent of likely voters who lean toward Obama, compared to 77 percent in September. Brown is getting support from 18 percent of Obama supporters, compared to 14 percent in September. (In both polls, Brown has gotten support from more than 90 percent of Romney supporters.)
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I agree, it doesn’t pass the smell test. Dem Presidential candidates in MA max out in the 59-62% range. Gore got 59.8% in 2000, Zero got 61.8% in 2008... even Kerry only got 1/10th of a point higher than Zero... 61.9% in 2004. Zero will not get higher than what he got in ‘08. At best, he might get somewhere in the 55-58% range. In fact, if he gets 55%, that means Willard will win nationally. Willard will probably get to the low 40s in MA, which will be the highest % for a Republican since GHW Bush in 1988 (when Dukakis won by a paltry 53-45%).
And MA has a 3rd generation Kennedy running for Barney Frank’s seat.
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“I agree, it doesn’t pass the smell test.”
Ditto.
I can see the Glovemeister getting into the low 40’s and that will be an idicator for the rest the nation.
Check out my post 65. They surveyed only 57 self-described Republicans. This survey was primarily about Scott Brown, however the results would tend to indicate problems for Obama even in Massachusetts.
It must be really depressing to live there.
Martha's Vineyard (OK, technically not a town), Brookline, Newton, Cambridge, Northampton
Yep.
If MA and/or CT are (relatively) close, then Team Glove will win states like WI, MI and possibly PA by wide enough margins that even Uncle Joe's very own vote counters would't be able to pull out.
Yup. And the cities. The EBT crowd is locked in.
The link brings upa blank page.
Probably an Internet fluke. Still, such ridiculous numbers make one wonder.
Liberal-LEANING??? ROTFLMAOPIMP!
Romney was elected Governor after all so a very different circumstance. And remember, Massachusetts is/was Kennedy territory.
Thanks much.
Mine would have to be: Cambridge, Amherst, Provincetown, Lowell and Northamton.
Which are your top 5 Moonbattiest towns in MA?
Martha’s Vineyard (OK, technically not a town), Brookline, Newton, Cambridge, Northampton
I grew up in Newton which is an upper middle class to wealthy city. I think there must be something in the tap water.
this is LITERALLY right out of campaign managment school.
find a trend ANY TREND where you candidate leads and promote it as momentum.
in this case left leaning mass and show an overwhelming lead to imply an inevitability trend.
now it is all GOTV. we have to email. we have to talk. order absentee ballots. Help people vote against obama.
I wish I knew how to link radio commercials.
Obama’s recent radio commercial was basically saying vote obama to protect homosexual marriage, repeal of DADT, abortion/birthcontrol, AND PREVENT romney supported federal marriage amendment (and even states he does not support civil unions.)
all i could think was “this is supposed to help obama?”
You can see the whole list (copied from boston.com) here.
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