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Did you notice Deval Patrick’s poll numbers are way up?

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Those are the highest ratings for Patrick since February.

Among the subsets Keller noted his rating among younger voters now stands at 54% (up 13% since  June) and his rating on the Cape has also jumped by the same amount and is also now at 54%.

You can see the full poll here:

http://www.surveyusa…

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  2. Take another poll on Cape, now that he vetoed AmeriCorps.

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    The Senior AmeriCorp program is an extremely popular elderly Outward Bound program that many Cape retirees participate in every summer.

    • Since Commonwealth Corps and Commonwealth Student Corps were created instead, which unlike before, actually creates a compressive plan within the state. 

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      Unlike his predecessor, Patrick actually read Citizen Service audit and oversight report, instead of cutting $5 million in funding to further cause problems.

  4. Looks like he’s recovered to where he was.  What was his election percentage?  65%?  By that measure, he’s sinking!

    • what’s Kerry Murphy Healy up to these days?
      Haven’t seen her out their campaigning with the next Governor of Utah.
      Do you guys hang out together at the Yacht Club, or is it the Polo ponies?

      • result to a personal attack!  (And you’ve insulted yachtsmen everywhere.)

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        Besides, what’s Muffy have to do with Deval’s current poll numbers?

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        My comment is simple — Deval wins with 65% (or whatever it was) and now is at 53%.  What’s hard to understand?

        • It’s not that hard to look up.

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          And yes, his rating is up 10% since March, and in politics that is a very noteworthy recovery.

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          Sorry to ruin your day.

        • Why didn’t you just claim that Patrick won 75% of the vote last fall?  You could have won by even more with your Deval “sinking” comparison.

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          Here’s a medal.

        • Seriously. A non entity is more popular. But it happens to every elected official.

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          When faced with no alternative, opposition goes up. People imagine how much better things could be. When you actually have to choose between the elected official and an actual opponent, you realize that the opponent might have some warts, too.

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          To be fair to any newly elected candidate, I think the baseline number should be the one taken three or four months after innauguration.

      • She DID speak at the Hingham GOP-8 straw poll for Mitt, but she’s also in Iowa a lot.

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        Your snotty comments about yachts and polo ponies are beneath contempt.

        • Can’t wait to see Kerry Murphy Healy when she comes campaigning in MA for Double Guantanamo Mitt. Should be fun.

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          BTW, you’re boy bostonshepherd mentioned his yacht yesterday in a thread on state income tax, but I’m sorry if it hit a little too close to home for you. Touchy touchy. Please try and keep up.

  5. I think I have a decent idea why his numbers went up. The original diary stated that the June poll was taken “shortly after the most recent ConCon”, but this is not accurate.

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    The ConCon was June 14th, and the June SurveyUSA poll was in the field from June 8th to 10th, and only released on the 18th, after the ConCon. But people were polled before the ConCon (see the top left corner, where it says “Data Collected”).

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    Given how much credit Deval received (and rightly so) from the marriage victory, it makes sense that his numbers went up. I think it gave some voters a sense that the Patrick Administration was on track with accomplishing things, which may have been a concern in the few months before.

    • this may also explain why Deval when from a 41%/50% approval among the 18-34 age group in June to 54%/40% approval in July, while the other age groups stayed roughly the same.

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      I would suspect that the gay marriage issue was a bigger deal for the 18-34 age group, and a strong victory for Deval there made a big difference within this group.

  6. Governor Patrick and his gang of inexperienced, but self-promoting aids deserted the South Coast. Every time they come down here they speak to the same people that every Governor has spoken to. These people care nothing about the region. Their only goal is to have access to the Governor and Deval has welcomed them with open arms. These were not the people who elected Deval. In fact the majority of them did every thing they could to make him lose, but he will gladly take their money. The reason the poll numbers are down is because it is politics as usual by the Patrick Administration regarding the South Coast. Everyone is very aware of it in this region of the state.

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