John Kerry Overall Approval (MA)

Survey USA ^ | August 21, 2007

[Clintonfatigued]

Do you approve or disapprove of the job John Kerry is doing as United States Senator?

Approve 47%

Disapprove 45%

Not Sure 8%

Total 100%

Composition of Adults 100%

[Gay State Conservative]

Doesn’t matter.He’s got the gig for as long as he wants it.Just like Teddy.

[EagleUSA]

You mean John Kerry is a senator? Never knew that.....

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Sad....stupid is as stupid does.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah....grew up there :-)

[Clintonfatigued]

I really think that John Kerry has overstayed his welcome. While it’s always difficult for Republicans to win in MA, it’s not impossible. And Kerry’s personal unpopularity gives an opening for the likely Republican nominee, Jeff Beatty.

[Gay State Conservative]

You mean John Kerry is a senator? Never knew that.....

After looking at his vote attendance record it becomes obvious that he sees the Senate as more of a hobby than anything else.

[vigilante2]

what exactly is he doing?

[mcshot]

Imagine what would happen if he showed up...then again never mind ala “Big Dig”.

[goldstategop]

45% - interesting when you consider Republicans routinely get 40% in the Bay State. I consider that an uptick in an environment where up til now, its been dismal for the GOP. Hope springs eternal.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Clintonfatigued]

If you look at the poll closely, it shows that Teddy has a much higher approval rating (62%) than Kerry does.

[goldstategop]

Yep. For some reason, Kerry rubs the people the wrong way, he's a loser and he's worn out his welcome.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Clintonfatigued]

Actually, it’s not an uptick in the political environment in MA as a whole. It’s more a growing personal rejection of John Kerry, himself.

[Maneesh]

Not a chance that Kerry loses.

No Republican will ever win statewide office ever again in MA. I live here and can flat guarantee that Kerry will win no matter who runs against him. The GOP for good measure has focused its energies in more competitive states. MA is a permanent lost cause for us.

Accept it and move on. Politicians only come here to raise money, there is no need for liberals to campaign. The winner of the Democrat primary is the default winner of the election.

I am an optimist by nature but can also see the writing on the wall and accept reality instead of wishing for the impossible.

[fieldmarshaldj]

An opening for our candidate to maybe get 30% of the vote. This being Ratsachusetts, the disapprovals probably come from people that think Kerry is too right wing (a la Lieberman). He’ll still win by a decent margin. We shouldn’t waste a dime on this race.

[Gay State Conservative]

While it’s always difficult for Republicans to win in MA, it’s not impossible.

Ohhh,c'mon...what are you smoking? Massachusetts will not again go for a single Republican Presidential nominee or again send a single Republican to the US House or Senate in your lifetime or mine.

[LibFreeOrDie]

If John F’n K loses his job, will Theresa dump him?

(John may have to go back to living in a car...)

[Maneesh]

You are absolutely correct. No Republican will ever win again including the Governor’s office. MA is a permanent lost cause, it is beyond help. We should focus on saving NH if we can. Sunnunu’s seat is up for reelection and we could very lose that to the libs.

[goldstategop]

The odds are against it... The MAGOP is practically comatose and doesn't even have a veto-proof margin in the Legislature. For all intents and purposes the Bay State is a one party state. Republicans do win the Governorship when the Rats screw it up, as Dukakis did but that's temporary.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

I doubt we can save Sununu. There is only one RINO left in the whole of New England... Chris Shays in Connecticut. He will be soon be gone and NE will be a sea of solid Blue.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[AVNevis]

I agree that Mass. is a lost cause for now, but don’t write off the future. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that the South was very Democratic - more so, I would argue, than NE is now. But look how things change.

[Maneesh]

Even the Governor’s office is lost forever. This is not practically but in fact a 1 party tyranny with liberalism unchecked.

The latest infringement on rights is that it is illegal to have a bonfire in your backyard. That is how far gone we are over here.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I wouldn’t go so far as to write off being able to win the Governorship (since even the most one-party heavy states will often give it to a member of the minority party — one reason why Dems have dominated the Governorship of WY since the ‘70s, and the GOP in RI). The only problem is, who would want it ? To have an almost 90% rodent to 10% liberal RINO opposition in the legislature is so embarrassingly dreadful that you’d have to be a professional masochist to want to deal with that. The party, whatever shards are left of it there, need to take action from the bottom up, and maybe with hard work and a dozen years, we might be able to carve out a decent 1/4th GOP legislative bloc that actually resembles the party elsewhere in normal-people land. The state is not so rodent and so leftist we can’t accomplish that at the minimum.

[goldstategop]

Republicans in the Northeast start with a floor of 40%. Building a solid conservative organization to replace the defunct RINO liberal Rockefeller wing will not be easy. It will probably take three or four generations. A political transformation is not going to happen there - in your lifetime or in mine.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Maneesh]

I admire your optimism but there are too many ivy league schools, Kennedy lovers, over educated derelicts, weenies and europhiles here for that to ever change.

Even the wealthy towns here are totally lib. I live here and see no ray of light in my lifetime. We make California look like Alabama.

[goldstategop]

What happened is the Country Club liberal Rockefeller Republicans finally became Democrats. A conservative in that part of the country is as rare as a hen's tooth in the GOP. Voters have seen through charade and have decided if there's to be a liberal party, just have one. That makes the Rockefellers obsolete.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Maneesh]

I admire your optimism as well. However the libs run the show here and most conservatives know that their vote does not count. Your point about being a masochist is totally true as well.

The GOP has given up on this state and there is no party apparatus left to speak of. The only good news is that as more people leave the state, we lose congressional seats and have less of an impact on the country. We will still have 2 traitorous senators of course.

[Gay State Conservative]

No Republican will ever win statewide office ever again in MA.

I agree with everything you've said except this.And I only disagree with that comment because I think that a Republican just might be elected Governor somewhere down the road.Particularly if taxes ever become a major issue in this state which seems likely with a 90% RAT House and Senate and Coupe Deval as Governor.

[Maneesh]

Very astute observations again. Might as well go over the professional libs than the make believe RINO’s. The other factor is that in social circles you are an immediate pariah if you are a conservative. I experience that very day and personally thrive on that but most linguine spined Oprahfied Americans just want to be liked and fit in.

[EagleUSA]

Imagine what would happen if he showed up...then again never mind ala “Big Dig”.
::::::
My pardons to any Massachusetts conservatives here, but that state is the most disgusting bastion of the impact of runaway liberalism that there is. The combination of socialist pols and a voting base that keeps creeps like Kennedy and Kerry in our government....it is beyond disgusting.

[massfreeper]

I thought I heard somewhere that this guy served in Vietnam... maybe I’m thinking of someone else...

[MassachusettsGOP]

Funny, the breakdown for his Approval Rating is 47% to 45%.
In the info-given poll Beatty released, Kerry lead 48% to 45%.

Seems like 45% of the Massachusetts Electorate wouldn't touch Kerry with a Ten-foot pole. (Heck in 2002 nearly 600,000 people voted for the Libertarian or left their ballot blank instead of voting for Kerry when he went unopposed) Pretty Good base for the start of any campaign.

[Gay State Conservative]

My pardons to any Massachusetts conservatives here, but that state is the most disgusting bastion of the impact of runaway liberalism that there is.

I've had the misfortune of living here all my life and I agree with you.

10,000%!

[EagleUSA]

I thought I heard somewhere that this guy served in Vietnam... maybe I’m thinking of someone else...
:::::::
Yes, I seem to remember that he did, and there was something famous about it....he was the only serviceman to ever receive a Purple Heart for falling out of a hammock in a Viet Nam whorehouse....

[MassachusettsGOP]

Hey we got 31% against Kennedy last year without even campaigning, we could get 40% this time. LOL.

[MassachusettsGOP]

We need Redistricting reform, thats why the Legislature is so scewed. In 2004, 33% of Massachusetts voters voted for Republican State Senators, we got a 15% Republican State Senate. That’s just absurd.

[Gay State Conservative]

We need Redistricting reform, thats why the Legislature is so scewed.

And who's gonna give us that reform? The 90% RAT controlled House...or the 90% RAT controlled Senate? Or our Clintonista RAT Governor?

[oneolcop]

Why is it that Mass. is so democRat?

[rawcatslyentist]

>"I thought I heard somewhere that this guy served in Vietnam...""

He shot more videos, than Viet Congs!

Zippo Hero

[MassachusettsGOP]

Well, there is this Liberal/Progressive group called Common Cause, that tried to get an initiative on the ballot for Legislative Redistricting Reform in wake of the “terrible Delay Gerrymandering”. I can only hope that the Moonbats would shoot themselves in the foot with such a thing.

[byteback]

Lots of Catholics and they tend to vote Rat.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Remember that MA is the home of the original gerrymander, and was begun by guess which political party ? Yup, the 1812 rodents to screw the Federalists (our GOP predecessors).

One interesting notion that would drastically increase the GOP presence in the legislature would be if proportional representation voting were permitted. It would triple the presence of the GOP legislators there currently if implemented (and were it allowed at the federal level, we’d instantly get 3 out of 10 members in the House delegation).

We have a similar gerrymandering problem in TN, which is grotesque in that the minority Democrats have kept a stranglehold majority for years (they haven’t received an outright majority for the legislature and Congress in 15 years, and at one point, when they were getting about 45% of the vote, tried to draw lines to guarantee they get 2/3rds of our state House of Reps). In fact, it took 140 years as of this past January to finally get a Republican Senate leader in our state (and that is not a typo). We’ve only had 1 GOP Speaker in that same time period as well, back in 1969-70. It was after 1970 when the rodents ruthlessly gerrymandered our gains out of existence and haven’t stopped since.

[onedoug]

And he still “respectfully” carries a piece of Vietnamese rice in his ass.

[MassachusettsGOP]

One Party States are Shockingly Atrocious.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I don’t mind one-party Republican states, as long as they have two competitive wings. Right wing and nosebleed right wing. ;-D

[Non-Sequitur]

While it’s always difficult for Republicans to win in MA, it’s not impossible. And Kerry’s personal unpopularity gives an opening for the likely Republican nominee, Jeff Beatty

And the horse may talk, too.

[jmaroneps37]

Too many sufferers from Battered Voter Syndrome up there for this to matter. frenchie has a lifetime job.

[Clintonfatigued]

Very true. Massachusetts voters aren’t going to reject liberalism in our lifetime, but I think they could reject John Kerry the man. If Jeff Beatty were to win, he would be a one-term Senator with no chance of reelection, but he could unseat the disliked Kerry.

[SGCOS]

Why would anybody take a poll re: kerry

Right, they're massholes...sorry..my bad...

[T.L.Sink]

Then they can say they voted for him before they voted against him. Or is that too nuanced?