For the first time since early in the campaign, Tom Reilly has taken the lead in a new poll.
Here is the breakdown:
Reilly 50%
Patrick 25%
Gabrieli 25%
This poll was sponsored by the Caralis family endowment at a cost of 4 ice cream cones and surveyed 4 perspective voters. Two of the perspective voters will be eligible to vote in the governors race in 2022, while two others have been eligible for some time now.
Given 50% of the voters surveyed are either just learning or cannot read, web site pictures were used.
The poll consisted of two questions. Who are you going to vote for and why?
My daughters response:
Who are you going to vote for?
That guy (pointing towards Reilly)
Why?
Hes eating ice cream; can I have some ice cream?
Thats a microphone. Ask your mother about the ice cream.
My sons response:
Who are you going to vote for?
ice cream, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream (pointing towards Reilly)
Why?
He does whatever his big sister does.
My wifes response:
Who are you going to vote for?
Deval Patrick
Why?
I was born in Milton.
At this point the responsibilities for asking the questions were handed over my 4 year old daughter.
My response:
Daddy, who are you going to vote for?
Im leaning towards Gabrieli.
Why?
Because my heart is with Patrick, but my mind is with Gabrieli.
Why?
The tax rollback
Why?
Its complicated
Why?
Because it is.
Why?
You want to go get some ice cream .
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another empty Patrick, like years ago “Wheres the beef”
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I have hear about 5 Deval speeches and you remove the fluff and there is nothing left.
I just saw it. It’s very good.
this is why you should vote for Chris Gabrieli……If you read the Boston Globe biography, I think your heart will come around and join your head in supporting Chris Gabrieli.
It’s not that far off of the polls coming out of Rhode Island on the Republican primary. Maybe the Caralis crew could go down to Providence and straighten those smarmy Ph.D.’s out, with their bizarre conflicting results…
Just as valid, I might add:
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Boston Magazine Poll
Who will you vote for in the Democratic primary?
Total Votes: 6265
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Chris Gabrieli 48% (3013)
Deval Patrick 51% (3173)
Tom Reilly 1% (41)
None of the above 1% (38)
And are they doing a poll??
Or they are not online. Or maybe no one really is supporting Reilly, except for the few people that hang out at Legal Seafoods in Burlington. (See below.)
Burlington Mall, Legal Seafood waiting line, Friday, Sept 1…in a poll of 17 adults over 35 (2 failed to get by the “screen” as they were from Maine)….so 15 MA voters over 35…
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Results:
FOR GOVERNOR:
Gabrieli 46% (7)
Patrick 26.6% (4)
Reilly 26.6% (4)
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FOR LT. GOV
Goldberg 26.6% (4)
Murray 40% (6)
Silbert 20% (3)
Don’t Know 13% (2)
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These results were surprisingly similar to a Thursday night Aug 31 poll of 30th Wedding Anniversary Party revelers in Somerville, good voters all…(most of these people are not Legal Seafood regulars, the tab is too rich)…a whopping 32 adults between 29-76 yrs responded (all from Middlesex/Suffolk Counties)…all Dems or Inds leaning (no one in this crowd would admit in public to voting GOP)…poll was conducted during band breaks and between the chicken divan and tiramasu…
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Results:
FOR GOVERNOR:
Gabrieli 41% (13)
Patrick 28% (9)
Reilly 22% (7)
Don’t Know 9% (3)
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FOR LT. GOV
Goldberg 28% (9)
Murray 37% (12)
Silbert 13% (4)
Don’t Know 22% (7)
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I’m saving these and checking back Sept 19 to see how close these folks were… with the confidence of their opinions I am looking at a Gabrieli/Murray or Patrick/Murray ticket… if Silbert were not in the race, Goldberg and Murray would be in a real barn burner with Goldberg given the edge ($$)…Andrea is raining on Deb’s parade by the looks…
There is NO Moe, only Larry and Curly.
Comparing Jim’s family the 3 stooges. What’s next the Simpsons?
FrankS…this campaign has sucked your sense of humor completely out! the MOE thing was a joke…with no reference at all to Jim’s family…”MOE” is an insider’s word…injected into conversations by consultants and consultant wannabees…reading Jim’s and my posts, it would be hard to miss the fact that they were posted in fun…to make fun of the media’s and blogger’s obsession with the latest greatest poll numbers…your devotion to Andrea has broken your funny bone…don’t let that happen, no candidate is worth that.
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It’s okay to have a little fun. Hesse called politics (“Stranger in a Strange Land”) “the only adult game worth playing.” Take a breather…and see the silliness of all this once in a while…
for your quote.
Thanks, Dave for the correct cite on the quote…that will teach me to have 2 cups of coffee before posting in the AM…
I thought both HL’s and Frank’s comments were in jest.
…it is impossible to detect sarcasm or subtleties. HL, note that I rated your comment to me as a 6. It was very funny. Certainly funnier than my response, but I tried to keep it going in the spirit of the entire posting–which I recommended, to give all BMG’ers a longer chance to enjoy Jim’s post.
Email and blogs are tough places for humor or sarcasm or anything that requires a facial expression, a tone of voice, or a gesture to get across the true meaning/intent of the words…guess that’s why people resort to adding happy faces or : )
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I still haven’t figured out how to “rate” things…but, thanks for your rating…Shemp would be proud.
the joy of appending your comment to the wrong post, or the wrong parent. Two problems for the price of one — you’ve often ticked off an innocent bystander (even one with whom you may have agreed) while the intended interlocutor goes on blissfully unaware of how wrong s/he is.
I’m just lacking those 3 Harvard degrees which would make me a better blogger…sorry about that…I thought if you hit “reply” on the post you are replying to, it would appear under that entry…but sometimes it shows up somewhere else…
Just ask the Herald, they’ll confer a Harvard degree on you. Piece o’ cake.
After all, a vote for Gabrieli is a vote for allowing candidates to buy government.
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In any event, how much have your property taxes gone up since the last rollback? You’re really going to let Gabrieli’s stance on the issue get in the way? It’s not far off from Deval Patrick’s stance.
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Let’s get more jobs in Massachusetts, then worry about cutting the already-fair income tax.
Will you enthusiastically support a Gabrieli / Goldberg ticket between Sept 20 and the November election? One good thing, you won’t have to respond to any fundraising pleas.
Policy-wise, I’m pretty similar to Gabs… and if you asked me a month ago, I probably would have said “I’ll probably vote Goldberg.” It turns out I didn’t, but that was a recent development – and she was still right up there with all the other candidates, until she went against Cape Wind.