Posted on 06/08/2013 11:42:06 AM PDT by bryan999
A Republican polling firm has found that the Massachusetts special election for the U.S. Senate is in a dead heat. Democrat Ed Markey, the longtime congressman, leads Republican and first-time candidate Gabriel Gomez by just a point. According to McLaughlin and Associates, a firm that often works for Republican candidates, 45 percent of likely voters in Massachusetts support Markey, while 44 percent support Gomez and 11 percent remain undecided. The election is on June 25.
Markey has long led Gomez in the polls, which is no surprise considering Massachusetts leans heavily Democratic. According to the Real Clear Politics average, which doesn't include the McLaughlin poll, Markey's lead over Gomez is about 10 points. But Republicans hoping to pull off an upset may find solace in Markey's high unfavorability ratings, which McLaughlin found to be 42 percent, equal to his favorability. Gomez, on the other hand, has a 48 percent favorability rating compared to a 27 percent unfavorability.
Gomez, a lifelong Republican, has taken great aims to distance himself from the national party, including voicing his support for comprehensive immigration reform, tougher gun control laws, and maintaining the current legality of abortion. His positioning as a moderate Republican could boost him in a low-turnout special election.
Ok, what does McCain, Nancy Gramnasty, and Collins from Maine say to snatch a defeat for us from the Jaws of Victory?
I don’t think they need do much, this guy is no conservative and may as just as well be a dem according to the things he supports. What is wrong with that state, it cannot be too much sunshine having boiled away their wits as they are too far north for that. Send it back to the king with all aboard.
Hard to imagine...but I suppose that,just as Scott Brown was running at exactly the right time (”I’ll vote against OsamaObamaCare”) that might be true of Gomez as well (”I’ll vote against IRS abuses”).
I don't vote in Massachusetts, but regrettably if I did, I could not vote for this jerk. We do NOT need more hyper Rinos in the Senate.
We don't need Markey there, either. But I'm not going to start voting for baby killers and country destroyers from EITHER party.
As I said, I don't vote in Massachusetts. But if Markey wins, it will just give us another Lincoln Chaffee or Olympia Snowe to screw us in the crunch.
Ronald Reagan won the electoral votes of Massachusetts twice. The margins were razor thin to be sure but Reagan never deviated from his conservative message so he could appease the voters there. If I’m not mistaken the bulk of voters in Massachusetts are independent and they won’t always rubber stamp Dems into office automatically. The problem is the RINOS don’t give the voters much of a difference between themselves and a liberal opponent. Voting for a RINO is the same as voting for a Democrat and so for the voters it’s easier to choose the real thing over a RINO like Gomez. I can’t think of any conservative who has ever been prominent in Massachusetts state politics.
BUT, he is pro-gayness, says he won't make pro-life an important issue (in other words, NOT PRO-LIFE), voted and donated to both Obama and Granny Warren. He begged Deval Patrick to make him the interim senator, saying that if he did he would join the gang of 8. I can only assume that he is still pro-illegal amnesty.
I suppose he might be with us perhaps 50% of the time, while Markey will be against us 110% of the time...In Massachusetts, this is the choice you get. I don't think I'll be able to stomach voting for him.
One more thing, I thought the liberals were the party of diversity, and yet they are running an "old white guy" against the young(ish) Hispanic. Where is all that anti-"old white guy" rhetoric we usually hear from the left?
I poo-pooed scott brown’s chances right up until the moment he won . . . won’t do that again.
I wonder if Brown will run in NH—and if we’d then see a slightly more conservative version the second time a round.
Tell me no one really believes this. This pollster was horrifyingly bad last election.
Ed Markey needs to find an Indian ancestor, quick.
Is it possible for Democratic heterosexual white males to win major elections anymore — unless they’re part of dynasties (Governors Cuomo of NY and Brown of California) or have billions of dollars to buy elections like John Corzine used to do in New Jersey?
If not Ed Markey in Massachusetts, who can, and where?
Two things:
1.) Gomez is vastly preferable to the truly execrable Ed Malarkey.
2.) Massachusetts is the second most Catholic state, and second most Democratic. Rhode Island leads in both categories. Because lace-curtain Irish and North End Sicilian grandmas held a grudge against the Anglo-Saxon Protestants, libertine agnostic grandchildren vote Democratic. It’s crazy.
The demhole wins by 5 easily...
It’s also an ideological tie.
Both the republican and the demonrat are pro abortion, pro gay marriage, pro amnesty.
There ain’t a dime’s worth of difference between them.
> I wonder if Brown will run in NH
Oh, please. It’s bad enough that our NH delegation is 3/4 demonrat. Having a RINO “reaching across the aisle” to grovel obsequiously at the feet of the demonrats would be too much to suffer.
I agree with you that Gomez might be a RINO, so is the guy that Christie placed as a temp Senator until the October election in NJ!!! But......the battle at this point should be to gain Republican control of the Senate. There are currently forty-five Republican Senators. Now with Christie’s appointment there are 46, however temporary. In this political climate, anything can change in NJ by the October rolls around!!!
If Gomez wins his special election on June 25th, he will become the 47th Pubbie Senator. There are 2 independant Senators, who vote with the Democrats!!! These two, while Liberal might want to rollover to the pubbies to maintain some level of control and their politcal power. Staying with defeated Democrats does absolutely nothing for them!!! Come 2014, mid-terms, we only would need four or five seats to gain and the Senate flips, which means we control all votes, debates, amendments, etc.
Just remember, winning the Senate and keeping the House in 2014, just about makes Obama & the Democrat Party, null and void!!! Just looking at the big picture!!!
I hope it’s close, but we get so many teases from blue states that some Republican senatorial, or even presidential candidate has a great chance to break through, then they lose by 10 - 20 points when the votes are counted.
Maybe Gomez has a chance, and maybe some of the Obama scandals will get even hotter and help propel Gomez to victory as Obamacare did for Scott Brown.
Because lace-curtain Irish
My wife falls in that category, I will bring this to her attention! Whenever she begins some commentary about her family history, I begin singing It is just a little shanty in old shanty town which usually shuts her down, for a few minutes anyway!!
My father’s mother’s maiden name was Bernadette Devlin. He’d get all teary eyed whenever that homicidal bitch was on the news ragging about the English, who raised the Irish out of the mud and gave them the gift of the English language, which is the only thing that separates the Irish from the Hottentots.
Me father’s mutha was shanty Irish, definitely not lace curtain Irish, btw. Shanty Irish, like ‘er namesake. I had a German American school boy friend who was quite pleased to explain the difference between lace-curtain Irish and shanty-Irish to me.
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