I don't think so, now that I know the Globe never gets out of Boston and never talks to anyone but themselves.
"Early poll shows risks for Patrick; Voter disapproval rate at 52 percent; But governor leads in 3-way matchups" by Frank Phillips and Matt Viser, Globe Staff | January 11, 2010
I can't believe they are resorting to the same s***-shoveling garbage they always do. although I am not surprised at all.
FLASHBACKS:
Patrick's Plummeting Polls
The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Protecting Governor Patrick
Of course, it is INVISIBLE because THERE IS NONE!
"The latest quarterly poll from MassInsight, a nonprofit research institute, spells more bad political news for Governor Deval L. Patrick: His job-approval numbers have plunged to levels not seen in decades for a Massachusetts governor. In a survey of 445 residents, taken last month and released this week, only 19 percent of respondents gave him a positive job rating, while 77 percent rated it fair or poor. One percent said he was doing an excellent job. Those numbers are significantly worse than last month's Globe poll, which also found him to be struggling politically....
Related: Globe is Governor's Attack Dog
Then they tell us he is polling even with the challengers!!
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So NOW what do they have to shovel? His approval sure as hell hasn't gone up seeing as how angry we all are, huh?
Governor Deval Patrick, despite some legislative successes and a slowly improving economy, continues to suffer from low job-approval ratings among Massachusetts voters, a signal that he faces a serious fight to win a second term, a new Boston Globe poll shows.
I don't understand what "successes" the Globe is talking about? The tax hike?
As for the improving economy, its been MORE JOB LOSSES each month!!
So I'm already distrustful of this biased, slanted, one-sided Globe poll.
With the general election 10 months away, Patrick leads his likely rivals, but the survey paints an otherwise bleak picture, reflecting the erosion of his popularity over the past three years following tough budget decisions and approval of tax increases for consumers.
I get sick of posting them, but here is why we are furious:
State Keeps Watering Evergreen
Pigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
UBS Picks Up Pike
Slow Saturday Special: Day at the Movies
The Hollywood Heist of Massachusetts
Massachusetts' Business Tax Increase Was a Corporate Tax Cut
Slow Saturday Special: Patrick Pimps Football Footpath For Patriots
Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride on the T
Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride
Why Massachusetts Needed to Raise Taxes
Tax Increase Fails to Save Massachusetts ServicesBlood All Over Massachusetts State Budget
State Government On Probation
The Next Taxachusetts Tax Increase
Bankers' Bark Worse Than Bite to State
The Compassionate Budget Choices of Massachusetts
The State of Massachusetts is Mentally Ill
Yup, THAT is where your TAX DOLLARS ARE (or are not) GOING, Massachusetts, as your service budgets are being slaughtered!!!
Still think he is even remotely as popular as the agenda-pushing Globe is implying?
His best chances for reelection in November, according to the poll, hinge on a three-way race that includes both a Republican challenger and a strong showing by state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, who left the Democratic Party last year to run as an independent.
Cahill is a DUD!
NO ONE VOTES THIRD-PARTY in Massachusetts anymore!!!!
In a three-way matchup that included Cahill and Republican Charles D. Baker, a former health insurance executive, Patrick won support from 30 percent of those surveyed, with Cahill getting 23 percent and Baker 19 percent....
Yeah, sure, Globe. Whatever.
And Marty Coakley was up a comfortable 15 when every politico in the state knew it was bulls***. Who did you call for the poll, Globe? All your friends in Cambridge and other Democrat bastions that are your sources?
Patrick’s lead, however, is vulnerable, given that voters have not yet gotten to know his rivals.
You know, I REALLY AM TIRED of WORDS that would have FAILED ME in COLLEGE being used interminably in the "NEWSPAPER!"
His political future may also ride on the large bloc of voters - 72 percent - who say they are undecided or could change their minds.
Yeah, the ANTI-INCUMBENT INDEPENDENTS that just put Brown in office are going to vote for this scuz ball slime, right, Glob.
That suggests the governor has a chance over the next 10 months to resurrect his image and demonstrate that his record merits another four-year term.
Nope.
“Clearly, this shows that Patrick starts this campaign at a serious disadvantage,’’ Andrew E. Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which conducted the Globe poll. “His ratings are so low it will make it very difficult for him to change voters’ minds between now and the election. He can do it, but he needs to draw into an inside straight - a three-way race, an improved economy, and a well-run campaign.’’
Goodbye, prick.
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Voters’ critical views of Patrick lay bare the struggle the governor faces. Fifty-two percent of respondents said they disapproved of his handling of his duties, while 41 percent approved. Democrats were the only group that gave him a majority approval rating, 58 percent. Among independents, 56 percent gave him a poor job rating.
And remember, these are SKEWED RESULTS in FAVOR of Patrick! I would say SUBTRACT HALF the APPROVAL and put it in DISAPPROVAL. That makes for an accurate state poll.
The general good will that sustained Patrick in his first two years in office - his favorability rating surged to 64 percent in late 2008 - has faded significantly. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they view him favorably, while 50 percent viewed him unfavorably. That is about equal to his standing in a Globe poll of Massachusetts residents taken last July, in the midst of fiscal and tax battles on Beacon Hill, when 36 percent of voters said they viewed him favorably, and 52 percent unfavorably.
Yeah, we have gotten angry, but nothing has changed for the old guv, right, Glob?
Patrick fared best among Democrats, highly educated voters, and residents of Western Massachusetts, three groups that have long formed the backbone of his political base.
And the only voters the Globe talked to. See the map?
But among unenrolled voters - more than half the voting population and a group that often determines elections in Massachusetts - Patrick received only a 33 percent favorable rating, while 56 percent viewed him unfavorably....
Gone! He has done NOTHING to help himself and 10 months can't make up for three years of rank corruption out there!
Although Cahill trails Patrick in the three-way matchup, the poll had some good news for him. He received better favorability ratings than his three potential rivals....
But as you saw for Senator, we DO NOT VOTE THIRD PARTY HERE (except for privileged one-percenters like me)!
Baker, the heavy favorite among the state’s Republican establishment, was unknown to many in the poll....
We need him by default:
The Perils of One-Party Politics: The Problem
The Perils of One-Party Politics: The Ruling Party
The Perils of One-Party Politics: Massachusetts' Democracy
See why this state is so f***ed up?
“I don’t even know who Charlie Baker is,’’ said Pam Siano, a laid-off convenience store manager from Springfield who said she is searching for a candidate. Siano, an independent who voted for Patrick’s Republican opponent in 2006, said she doesn’t like his budget priorities, resenting his cuts to a clinic at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home. “You don’t take away from veterans, I don’t care who you are,’’ she said....
Yeah, Globe finally discovers and respects us when they need us.
Related: Slow Saturday Special: Shuttering the Old Soldier's Home
Update: Slow Saturday Special: State Saves Soldier's Home
The "game" has gotten old, Globe.Asked whether they trusted the governor or the Legislature more on the budget, 36 percent of respondents chose the lawmakers, and 33 percent pointed to Patrick. In the July poll, 40 percent said they trusted the Legislature, compared with 23 percent for Patrick.
We trust NEITHER, so.... pfffft!
It is unclear what role taxes will play in the race.
There goes the Globe again, sticking their head in the s*** pile like an ostrich.
The 1.25 percentage-point increase in the sales tax, which was approved by the Legislature and the governor last summer, has prompted 15 percent of those surveyed to buy fewer things, and 17 percent to purchase items in other states. Still, 63 percent said it has made no impact on their spending habits.
Yes, the TAX INCREASES did NOT HELP with Joe-and-Jane six-pack that will vote next time (my friends, readers)!
And STILL, BUT, IF, COULD BE, HOWEVER, YET, NEVERTHELESS, TO BE SURE, etc, etc, etc!
As for expanded gambling, which Patrick and lawmakers are currently negotiating, 33 percent said they support creating resort casinos, while only 3 percent supported adding slot parlors at the state’s race trace track; 16 percent said they had no preference, and 38 percent said they don’t want expanded gambling in the state.
Remember, this is a PRO-GAMBLING GLOBE POLL, readers!
WE DON'T WANT THOSE CRIMINALS destroying our communities whatever the Globe says in their "poll."
Btw, there is another, more important poll that we are always being told about, and that is the $$$$$$!
"Baker’s funding shatters records; Patrick foe raises $2.3m in months" by Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | January 6, 2010
Money doesn't only talk, it SCREAMS in AmeriKa, readers. When you see WHO is ABANDONING the Globe's dear guv you realize he's sunk.
In one of the most aggressive political fund-raising pushes in recent memory, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Charles D. Baker has amassed a $1.85 million war chest over roughly five months of campaigning, tapping into a broad range of supporters and establishing himself as a major threat to Governor Deval Patrick’s reelection bid.
Baker doubled, in less than half the time, what Patrick raised for the entirety of 2009, despite a fund-raising visit by President Obama this past fall for the Democratic governor. Baker’s coffers currently hold more than 10 times the amount in Patrick’s campaign account.
The Baker's sledgehammer!
The Republican has also raised 3 1/2 times the amount that state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent rival in the governor’s race, collected last year.
Who?
Baker’s rival for the Republican nomination, Christy Mihos, lags far behind, relying mostly on personal wealth. Baker’s fund-raising haul, which has broken records for a nonincumbent candidate who is not yet a party nominee, provides another jolt for Democrats already discouraged over Patrick’s underwhelming poll numbers and comparatively slow pace of fund-raising....
And that was BEFORE SCOTT BROWN!
Campaign finance records show that Baker has collected $2.3 million since late summer, when he assembled a team of Republican fund-raisers and set up events almost nightly from Labor Day into late December. In addition, his running mate, Richard Tisei, the Senate minority leader, who joined the ticket in late November, raised $313,000.
Last month, typically the toughest of the year to collect political donations, Baker reported raising a whopping $726,000, ending the year with a donor base of 7,449 people. Raising money every year is key for candidates in Massachusetts, because the annual contribution limit for individuals is $500. The fund-raising success has allowed the campaign to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars already to position itself for this election year.
Baker’s feat exceeds the expectations his aides had when the former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care decided to jump into the 2010 governor’s race. “He blew away the fund-raising benchmarks we set for the campaign,’’ said Rob Gray, Baker’s chief strategist, adding that he had hoped Baker could raise $1.6 million by the end of 2009. Baker also helped raise about $500,000 for the state Republican Party, which has $271,000 in its state account.
Patrick, a reluctant fund-raiser who has shunned the traditional path of building a huge account to finance a reelection, raised $1.3 million in 2009 and just $685,000 in 2008. He has only $168,000 in his campaign account.
Awwwww, poor guvewnuw!
Related:
"Union settles illegal campaign gift case
The federal political action committee of a major food union made illegal state campaign finance contributions between 2006 and 2008 and has paid $3,500 to resolve the matter, according to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance. The Active Ballot Club of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union made prohibited contributions of $5,000 to Governor Deval Patrick’s Victory Fund on May 31, 2006; $15,000 to the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee’s account on Oct. 13, 2006; $5,000 to the Kenneth Donnelly Committee on Nov. 4, 2007; and $10,500 to the Douglas Belanger Committee in March and August 2008, according to the Office of Campaign and Political Finance. State law does not allow federal PACs to make contributions to Massachusetts candidates and political party committees. State campaign finance regulators said recipients were unaware the gifts were from a prohibited source (State House News Service)."
Related: Seventy-First Fund
Yeah, the poor slime-bucket!
Patrick will be able to draw on the state Democratic Party, which had $581,150 at the end of 2009, and on the funds his lieutenant governor, Tim Murray, has in his campaign account; Murray currently has $1 million. “We are not worried that we will not have the necessary resources,’’ said Steve Crawford, a spokesman for Patrick’s political committee.
Crawford said the reason for the committee’s low bank account balance is that it has spent money to reignite Patrick’s statewide campaign organization. “We invested a lot in building our grass roots, both on the ground and on the Internet,’’ Crawford said.
Pffft!
Then why didn't you help Martha Coakley?
I say the guv right next to her on stage during the concessions speech, smiling at all the right things!
If state political history is any guide, Cahill, who left the Democratic Party last summer, will also have to step up fund-raising to be competitive. Since 1998, no candidate who spent less than $10 million has won a campaign for governor. In 2006, Patrick, with the financial help of the Democratic Party and unions, spent $19 million to become the first Democrat in 16 years to win.
Yeah, with ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS!!!!!
His Republican opponent, Kerry Healey, spent $16.5 million. Cahill, treasurer for seven years, has used the leverage of his office to build a $3.24 million political account. But he has raised only $650,000 over the past year.
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Cahill the Corrupt
Scientific Games Gets Back Scratched By State Treasurer
The Lying Looter at the State Lottery
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Ain't it grand when your state treasurer is a corrupt PoS?
In a potentially ominous sign for Patrick, Baker has raised some of his funds from traditional Democratic donors, including previous Patrick supporters.
The FINAL NAIL in the COFFIN!
Baker’s health care background has also prompted some in the industry to break from their partisan roots....
And if Baker has HEALTH MONEY then Patrick is cooked!
