Sen. Scott Brown leads presumptive Democrat nominee Elizabeth Warren, 49-40.
The Suffolk University/7News poll, which was released late Thursday night, asked 600 likely voters across Massachusetts which candidate they would support in a head-to-head matchup, if the election was held today. The poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.
Forty-nine percent of respondents said they would vote for Brown while 40 percent said they would back Warren, according to the poll.
Separately, 45 percent of respondents said that Brown deserved to be reelected, 39 percent said he did not, and 16 percent were undecided.
Brown also led Warren among independents in the poll by a margin of 60 percent to 28 percent, Suffolk University said in a statement. Fifty-two percent of registered voters in Massachusetts are independents, the statement said.
Fascinating. Democrats keep fantasizing that they’re going to turn Texas blue, meanwhile, they’ve lost Wisconsin, Minnesota is wobbly and even Massachusetts may send a Republican back to the Senate in Ted Kennedy’s old seat.
Heh.
When Granny Warren (that’s Howie Carr’s nickname for her) came on the scene with her class warefare schtick she was beating him in the polls. When Obama took on the Catholic church her polls dropped. Brown might be doing a good job of positioning himself. Neither of them is Catholic, unusual for MA but she’s less Catholic than he is if you know what I mean.
I suspect that Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church could be the determining factor. Left-wing pollsters may be afraid to find out if I am right. There is good possibility that Obama is going to lose in a landslide.
Did the poll use names or just the Dem or the Dem light? either way, the Dems seem to have a vote in the Senate.
No Democrat can escape the Obama Effect!
Warren has only herself to blame. Calling herself a matriarch of the Occupy movement was silly. Trying to shoehorn herself into the “99%” despite her $750,000 annual earnings and $million home was simply absurd. And the assertion that contributions from Wall Street to her campaign only came from “good Wall Street” should have removed her from any serious consideration by all but the bluest of blue true believers.
Warren is shaping up to be another Martha Coakley; a Mass. machine lib vainly hoping to ride in on the overwhelming liberal sentiment of this state. Unless your name is Kennedy you are NOT going to coast into office here!
Warren is a legend in her own mind.
The title implies that this is about the aggregate of the Republicans and the Democrats, but it turns out that it’s only one race where an incombent turns out to not be in so much danger of losing his seat.
One might conclude that you were REALLY desperate to write headline and you couldn’t find a relevant excuse.
Josh,
Do you understand what the word “sarcasm” means? Did you hear that whooshing sound? That was you completely missing it!
This is an article about a two year R incumbent who, in what had for decades been a safe D seat in one of the most D friendly states in the country, is ahead of the well known and connected D challenger by a country mile. Mind you, this is despite $millions spent on advertising by the campaign and affiliated SuperPACs. The D machine here has (again!) made the fatal mistake of assuming they have the upper hand just…because…
… because she’s a crumby candidate.
Now if you could only convince all of the other Democrats to say really dumb things, you’ll have the whole country in the bag.
Wow, Hell just froze over! We actually agree on that point.
All that the other Dems will have to do is quote Obama on anything, without smirking. They’ll be toast.
You are displaying ignorance of how things work, Josh. The time when an incumbent U.S. Senator is most vulnerable is in his first time up for re-election, especially if he has only been in office less than a full-term. Furthermore, MA is a deep-Blue State. Brown is very vulnerable this time. If they were going to get him out, now is the time. After this, it becomes much, much harder.
This really IS a big deal. All Warren had to do was mostly keep her mouth shut, parrot the DNC talking points, and she could have beaten Brown, as you seem to agree.
So, let us not diminish the significance of this. If he wins, he is probably Republican Senator from MA for a long time to come. And he is a young man. He could be there another 40 years. “This is a big effing deal.”
The most important thing about her gaffes, is that they seem to reflect much of the stupid thinking of the Left. She does not even know how grotesque she sounds to the average American. She does not know to wear the mask of respectability (i.e., doesn’t know to lie), so the Leftist nuttiness is exposed in all its inglory. She is just this gift that keeps on giving., praise God.
Wow is that an unhatched chicken your counting Bryan? Of course Warren will win as Obama has a lead of close to 20% over our former Governor Mitt and he’s the closet of the bunch. Brown has a very hard hill to climb and things will get interesting starting in September. I’m not worried.
Of course the fly in that ointment is the question of how many of us Massholes will split the ticket; vote Big-O on top and Scott Brown lower down. It wouldn’t be the first time; Ted Kennedy was returned to the Senate with a huge margin when Mitt was first elected Governor. Warren’s proclivity to make Whiskey Tango Foxtrot-worthy pronouncements is a pretty strong indicator that we might just be about to see this sort of thing happen again, IMNSVHO.