FWIW — Kerry was their native son. I’d expect him to do better than ‘Bama
keep posting these chet! I just saw the one from KY too. Obama is clearly losing ground.
A much more interesting question is how Kerry is doing against Jeff Beatty in the US Senate race.
As far as Beatty, it is very difficult to run a campaign in a veritable vacuum. Outside money comes in left and right for dems, and media is not allowed to utter the name of republicans running. If you want any information on them you must hunt it online, and it isn't easily found, as far as party affiliation. It's insane.
One House race, Olver (self proclaimed socialist) is being challenged by a fantastic candidate and veteran, Nathan Bech, but you never hear his name even mentioned. However, Olver, who never ever runs ads when he is up for re-election, this time has them on every 2 minutes on every channel! And they are of a costly sort. He DOES NOT spend money campaigning. Bech must be getting him nervous for him to do this.
Roughly in line with Pew’s national poll!
Kennedy, Kerry and Frank. What more is there to know about Massachusetts. Polling there is a total waste of time.
I saw tons of Obama stuff in southern Essex County. Cambridge, Boston, and Newton are littered with it, which should come as a surprise to no one. Obama will take MA without a doubt, but it would be curious if McCain did end up getting around 40%. Kerry won it by 25, and Gore by 27 (with Nader polling strongly).
I think people will be surprised with Obama’s margin of victory (?) here in MA....actually more McCain signs than Obama signs in my part of eastern MA....in 2004 and 2000 there were tons of signs for Gore and Kerry - hardly any for Obama - and MA went for Hillary against the endorsements of Patrick (Gov.) and Kennedy - I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a large PUMA effect here....of course we have a lot of college students too - although I heard in 2004 a lot of them were bussed up to NH to vote for Kerry up there - not sure how that worked - probably an ACORN thing....
I wonder if a lot of conservative minded voters will come out to vote against the income tax ballot item. If this issue brings out a lot of voters it could help McCain. I’d be shocked if he was even even close in the end though.
I was having a few last night at my local watering hole. There were 11 others there, all union tradesmen. Everyone of them said there was no way they would vote for Obama.
I think you will be surprised by the results in Ma. Obama will still take the state but not by the margin everyone thinks..
Obama is underperforming both Kerry and Gore in MA. For a liberal like Obama in an allegedly Democrat “year,” that’s pathetic. McCain will break 40% here - bank on it.
I live in MA and my entire family is voting for McCain. I am SO hoping for a McCain win in MA.