The Dodger: Not coming to terms with the Big Dig This is huge, and to me completely inexplicable. The Big Dig was always going to be part of the conversation in this election, and the fact is that Charlie Baker was high up in state … [Read more...]
Comment of the evening: a conservative’s cry for help
Lodger, a long-time member of our stalwart band of resident conservatives, may well have summed up the feelings of many of the 50% of MA likely voters who view Charlie Baker unfavorably. i might be typical you may know i lean conservative … [Read more...]
Charlie’s on a Role
Election campaigns bring out the best in some politicians, the worst in others. Charlie Baker seems firmly in the latter group. So we were shocked, but not surprised, when the Globe last week asked the four gubernatorial candidates who … [Read more...]
Rasmussen’s favorability ratings: Patrick at +8, Baker at -3. Wow.
A helpful reader has informed BMG that today's Rasmussen poll's favorability ratings are surprisingly, well, favorable for Governor Patrick. And surprisingly weak for Charlie … [Read more...]
Rasmussen: Patrick retains his lead
Rasmussen has a new poll out, apparently taken Saturday night after the president's visit. Bottom line: Patrick's lead remains intact. This poll therefore supports what Suffolk said last week, and severely undermines the … [Read more...]
Charlie Baker – Running on Fumes
We know that former failed gubernatorial candidate Tom Reilly -- still bitter over his own horribly mismanaged campaign four years ago -- endorsed Baker a couple days back. His reasoning? "It hasn't gone well" under Patrick and we "need a … [Read more...]
Baker hearts Giuliani
Lines composed on learning that Rudy Giuliani is the politician Charlie Baker would most like to be. (With apologies to Nat King Cole and Mona Lisa) Guiliani, Guiliani, Baker's named you Politician who (to him) is most worthwhile Is it … [Read more...]
“When you’re debating the polls, you’re losing”
The words in the title are not mine, actually. They are the words of the wingnuttiest of them all, WTKK's Michael Graham, who really, really doesn't want Deval Patrick to win. But of course he's right - in fact, he wrote that post in … [Read more...]
New Suffolk poll: Loscocco-gate bad news for Baker as his unfavorable ratings soar
Charley beat me to the punch, but I want to elaborate a bit on the new Suffolk poll, which is impossible to see as anything but very good news for Governor Patrick. As Charley has reported, the horserace numbers are good: at 7 points, … [Read more...]
Taking stock of today’s developments in Loscocco-gate [updated]
Loscocco is finished as any sort of political player. He's shown himself to be a treacherous, opportunistic loser who, after being rebuffed by Baker and signing on with Cahill instead, then invented a reason to desert the Cahill … [Read more...]
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