From Political Wire:
Brown Leads in Race for Massachusetts Governor
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Massachusetts finds former Sen. Scott Brown (R) leads every potential challenger in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race.
The poll might suggest to Brown he would be better off running for governor than challenging Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) in New Hampshire, a possibility he’s hinted at in recent weeks.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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…but also pretty meaningless at this point. I guess on some level it makes sense that Galvin attracts the most certainty of opinion given that he’s been a constitutional officer for awhile, but I don’t see him getting the nomination. I didn’t realize Ortiz was a Democrat; she seems to prosecute like a Republican. At least a couple potential candidates have name recognition approaching zero at this point so what are respondants supposed to say? Brown was relatively popular even upon his defeat so its not surprising, but it will be at least a year before the average voter is paying this race any attention.
Brown just ran a closely-watched statewide race. Even though he lost, everyone knows who he is. At this point, hard to see how this poll measures much more than name recognition.
Where was Patrick in the polls in the summer of 2005? Where was Obama in the fall of 2006? First rule of politics is to expect the unexpected. If early polling was right it’d have been Hillary v Rudy in 08 and McCain v Lieberman in 04
At first I thought you meant 2000 because McCain ran that year but not 2004 and did well early in NH. Lieberman did not run in 2000, except as Gore’s running mate which of course he technically won, but I digress:) Lieberman did run in 2004 but I don’t recall him being the front-runner and I don’t imagine he would ever have been given how closely he adhered to GWB on foreign and security policy.
…is why we got Brown in the first place.
One of the things I learned as a child (literally on my father’s lap) was, and I quote: