I really hate getting my hopes up only to be disappointed. One would think Martha Coakley will win the election in Massachusetts by a landslide. She’s a liberal democrat in a liberal state. But people are mad. They’re mad at what’s happening in Washington and they see that Coakley will just be part of the problem. Are the people of Massachusetts mad enough to elect a Republican to fill “Ted Kennedy’s Seat?”
Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.
Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.
“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”
The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead. Unenrolled long-shot Joseph L. Kennedy, an information technology executive with no relation to the famous family, gets 3 percent of the vote. Only 1 percent of voters were undecided.
Paleologos said bellweather models show high numbers of independent voters turning out on election day, which benefits Brown, who has 65 percent of that bloc compared to Coakley’s 30 percent. Kennedy earns just 3 percent of the independent vote, and 1 percent are undecided.
Given the 4.4-point margin of error, the poll shows Coakley could win the race, Paleologos said. But if Brown’s momentum holds, he is poised to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy – and to halt health-care reform, the issue the late senator dubbed “the cause of my life.”
Yet even in the bluest state, it appears Kennedy’s quest for universal health care has fallen out of favor, with 51 percent of voters saying they oppose the “national near-universal health-care package” and 61 percent saying they believe the government cannot afford to pay for it.
The poll, conducted Monday through Wednesday, surveyed 500 registered likely voters who knew the date of Tuesday’s election. It shows Brown leading all regions of the state except Suffolk County.
The poll was weighted 39% Democrat, 15% Republican, and 45% unenrolled. 99% of the voters surveyed said their mind is made up. Another shocker – Brown has 91% of Republicans and a whopping 17% of Democrats.
Michelle Malkin says WOW! Not only has Charlie Cook moved the race to “toss up”, Brown has reportedly raised $1 million a day online this week. And that money isn’t coming from K Street lobbyists, it’s coming from people like you and me.
Let’s just hope someone’s keeping a close eye on ACORN, the SEIU and the other nefarious forces that could be planning some serious monkey business.
Via Memeorandum
David Horowitz’s Newsreal linked – Thank you!
Someone remarked that the great Republican state of Texas once elected a Democrat for governor. And we did, Ann Richards (God rest her soul), whom I personally liked, in spite of her liberal ways.
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