Today’s Boston Globe poll shows AG Coakley with a strong lead over Treasurer Grossman (with 3 other candidates trailing in single numbers) and Coakley increasing her lead over Charlie Baker.
Martha Coakley holds a commanding 35-point lead in the five-way race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and has broadened her edge in a potential general election match up with Republican Charlie Baker, according to a new Boston Globe poll.
Coakley, the attorney general, holds a 49 percent to 14 percent lead over Steve Grossman, the state treasurer, while the other three Democratic candidates remain mired in the low single digits.
The results confirm what other public polls have shown: that Coakley remains by the far the most popular candidate among likely Democratic voters, even though party insiders say the activist base appears poised to endorse Grossman at this weekend’s convention in Worcester.
The results indicated a notable shift in Coakley’s lead over Baker in a hypothetical general-election matchup. She moved from a 5-point edge last week — 37 percent to 32 percent — to an 11-point lead this week, 42 percent to 31 percent.
Her gain came even as the other four Democrats running for governor continued to lag behind Baker in hypothetical November contests, with those margins virtually unchanged from last week.
Donald Berwick, a former federal health care official, and Juliette Kayyem, a former state and federal homeland security official, are both tied at 3 percent in the poll, while Joseph Avellone, a biopharmaceutical executive, is at 2 percent. Party observers have warned that at least one of those three candidates may not win enough support at the convention to qualify for the September ballot.
Food for thought for the undecided Delegates.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/13/coakley-holds-strong-lead-over-grossman-poll/ON9ovPswcj16qxVHe7g8XO/story.html
