Deval Patrick has never held elected office, but he’s already won something that typically eludes even veteran politicians: The Seal of Broder. A few weeks ago, David Broder, the living embodiment of the political journalistic establishment devoted his Washington Post column to Patrick–hailing the Democratic Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate as a bona fide political star. Broder recounted the 50-year-old Patrick’s remarkable life story: Raised on the rough South Side of Chicago, at the age of 14 he landed a scholarship to a prestigious New England prep school, which set him on a path that would take him to Harvard, the naacp Legal Defense Fund, a tony Boston law firm, the Clinton administration Justice Department, and the corporate boardrooms of Texaco and Coca-Cola before recently depositing him in Massachusetts politics. Broder then all but declared Patrick the winner of the election, which would make him Massachusetts’s first black governor and the state’s first Democratic governor in 16 years. Indeed, Broder predicted that the governorship would likely be but a way station for Patrick, who is “certain to be in demand by starry-eyed Democrats across the nation if he wins.”
[Read the rest at the New Republic. –ed]
It’s hard to overlook Jason’s comment about Deval’s physical appearance and his voice: “A compact man with a thick neck and a bullet-shaped head, Patrick has a high, nasally voice … “
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And he really hasn’t regained the lead he had in the polls before the LaGuer stuff came out, at least not the polls that were taken right after the primary.
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So I guess I’m not so sure about Zengerle’s ability to represent reality accurately.
about the poll taken the day after his resounding primary victory? No one took that poll remotely seriously and many questioned why it was even done. A week or so later Patrick’s lead in the polls was in the 20s – precisely where it had returned to last week. That characterization in the article is justified and accurate.
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As for the physical description, well, I’ve never noticed his neck…
..the LA Times. He is getting national buzz today.
This needs a link if this article can be found online, and this probably violates fair-use under copyright laws. You aren’t supposed to copy-paste an entire article without permission as I understand it. I think you can exerpt as much as three paragraphs without asking the author but don’t quote me on that…
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It’s also missing blockquotes, though I expect you just don’t know how to do that (it’s an HTML syntax sort of thing).