MA-MassInsight: Sen. Brown (R) leads Warren (D) by 10

[Tender Branson]

52-42 Brown

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2012/02/new-poll-shows-2.php

[Vosem]

Anyone spot a pattern? Human minds are supposed to be really good at spotting patterns.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Why are they just releasing a month-old poll?

[Vermin Supreme]

How is Scott Brown refusing to support women rights such as contraception not hurting in Massachusetts?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

How is Scott Brown refusing to support women rights such as contraception not hurting in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts is nowhere near as pro-choice as you probably think it is.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

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This is a push poll. The cross-tabs are also crap. There's no way and no reason for Brown to be getting twenty per cent of registered Democrats. They asked all sorts of bizarre (for a poll) strategic questions (such as whether or not it was important to vote against Brown to keep Republicans from controlling the chamber, which got numbers almost as high as Brown's in the main line and seven points above Warren's) and the result is an aggregate of completely nonsensical statistical ricochets.

I can believe that Brown is ahead for the moment because there is something of a lull in interest in this in the state right now, but he is not ahead by ten points and he is not over fifty per cent. The 49-44 Brown Rasmussen poll that was just released is a lot more reasonable the way things currently stand.

Incidentally, the comments on the link are...troubling. All sorts of really unnerving barely-coded misogyny, among other things. Put it this way, one of the least hackish commenters is pbrower.

[Vermin Supreme]

How is Scott Brown refusing to support women rights such as contraception not hurting in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts is nowhere near as pro-choice as you probably think it is.

Then how come they never elect pro life politicans to high office positions such as governor and congressional races?

[Landslide Lyndon]

How is Scott Brown refusing to support women rights such as contraception not hurting in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts is nowhere near as pro-choice as you probably think it is.

What has that to do with contraception?

[Svensson]

...interesting. I'll be frank, I'm having a hard time putting much stock into this, given the trend of previous polls. Not that I'm complaining, mind, since he's probably the best Massachusetts will ever get.

(Not that it's saying much.)

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

...interesting. I'll be frank, I'm having a hard time putting much stock into this, given the trend of previous polls. Not that I'm complaining, mind, since he's probably the best Massachusetts will ever get.

(Not that it's saying much.)

The best Senator Massachusetts has had in modern times was...well, Ted Kennedy, obviously (who doesn't deserve deification by a long shot, but who does deserve the praise he gets for the repeal of immigration quotas and the Americans with Disabilities Act among other things), but Kerry, Brooke, and Saltonstall were also all considerably better than Scott Brown. Not Tsongas, though. Tsongas was kind of a sad sack.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

How is Scott Brown refusing to support women rights such as contraception not hurting in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts is nowhere near as pro-choice as you probably think it is.

Then how come they never elect pro life politicans to high office positions such as governor and congressional races?

They got Stephen Lynch.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

How is Scott Brown refusing to support women rights such as contraception not hurting in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts is nowhere near as pro-choice as you probably think it is.

Then how come they never elect pro life politicans to high office positions such as governor and congressional races?

They got Stephen Lynch.

Also possibly Richard Neal, depending on just how supportive of abortion restrictions one has to be to be 'pro-life'.

[Ogre Mage]

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lol