Kevin Rothstein at the Herald reports that a new Zogby/Wall Street Journal poll shows both Deval Patrick and Tom Reilly handily beating Kerry Healey - and that Patrick's lead is actually bigger:Patrick vs. Healey: 53 to 31.5 percentReilly … [Read more...]
More on the State House News poll
As Charley noted earlier this week, a new State House News poll shows Tom Reilly with a still-commanding lead over Deval Patrick in the Democratic primary, but with Patrick's "Deval who?" numbers still near 80%, which would seem to give … [Read more...]
Mike Capuano to endorse Deval Patrick
AP is reporting that US Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Somerville) is set to endorse Deval Patrick's campaign for Governor tomorrow afternoon.Interesting. I don't know whether Capuano and Tom Reilly have any history (I assume that Capuano … [Read more...]
Poll: Reilly well ahead of Patrick 50-27
... "among potential Democratic primary voters." Not sure I know what "potential voters" means, but there are the numbers. (Survey of 400 MA folks, +/-4.8%.) Patrick was down by 40% in the last SHNS poll, so it's actually positive news for … [Read more...]
The Convention, Gab500 and Jell-O
So, there's speculation here and apparently elsewhere that Gabrieli's run has an outside chance of keeping Tom Reilly off the ballot entirely, by depriving him of the 15% of delegates at the convention. Well, that would be shocking, but if … [Read more...]
Reilly leads in new poll
A New Suffolk University Poll will be released tommorrow. "While Mihos shows some potential, the race for Governor appears to be Attorney General Tom Reillyâs to lose. When asked, who respondents would lean toward if the election were … [Read more...]
Blowing through the backblog
Here are some quick hits on recent events that I haven't had a chance to bloviate about at length.The Herald reported yesterday that AG/Gov candidate Tom Reilly signed a confidentiality agreement with Big Dig contractor Bechtel Parsons … [Read more...]
Hey Adrian: check the website!
Adrian Walker has an interesting column in today's Globe about Saturday's Deval Patrick rally at Faneuil Hall, and about the Patrick campaign generally. The column strikes me as generally a decent assessment of where the Gov's race … [Read more...]
Today’s poll: Reilly vs. Patrick
I thought it would be interesting for everyone to take a look at the complete dataset on the Democratic primary for Governor from the poll that, as Ben notes below, is the subject of a front-page article in today's Globe:Here are a couple … [Read more...]
Hillman’s peccadillos outweigh St. Fleuriasco
I don't have much to say about Reed Hillman's record as head of the State Police. The facts are pretty much laid out on the table: the policies against pregnant women doing much of anything were blatantly sexist and discriminatory. It is … [Read more...]