New polls: Warren ahead of Brown in Mass.
In a poll released on Wednesday, Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren had a four-point lead over Republican incumbent Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race:
A Mass Insight Global Partnerships poll of 450 Bay State adults concluded that Warren is maintaining the edge on Brown, 48-44 percent, although her lead is within the 4.6 percent margin of error.
And a couple of other polls:
A WBUR/MassInc. poll released on Monday showed Warren ahead by two percentage points, 46-44, while a Boston Globe/University of New Hampshire poll released on Sunday concluded that Warren was leading by five points, 43-38 percent.
The Mass Insight poll also found this, though I'm not sure exactly what it means:
Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said that Massachusetts needs to elect a Democrat to help prevent the Senate from falling under control of the national Republican Party. At the same time, 40 percent said that "having a moderate Republican senator is good for Massachusetts and the country."
Can we say that this one is still close? I will add, though, that the fact Obama will bury Romney at the top of the ticket in Massachusetts can't be bad for Warren.
(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)
Labels: 2012 elections, Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts, polls, Scott Brown, U.S. Senate
posted by Richard K. Barry at
2:30 PM
2 Comments:
The only poll that has found Brown ahead was the UMass/Boston Herald pool 3 weeks ago. And it was an outlier then. Yes, I think we can call this one.
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Frankly Curious, at 2:43 PM
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. If Romney closes the gap nationally, he could help Brown down the ticket. And there are still a large number of undecideds.
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Michael J.W. Stickings, at 1:05 AM
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