Is Coakley going to blow it again?

[cali]

She's in a dead heat in frickin' MA.
The race for governor remains essentially a dead heat between Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker, according to a new poll by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and WBZ-TV.

One percentage point separates Coakley and Baker among likely voters, with 41 percent saying they would vote for Coakley and 40 percent for Baker were the election being held today, the poll shows. Coakley’s lead increases to 4 percentage points when voters “leaning” toward one candidate or the other are included in the tally. Both are well within the margin of error.

The three independent candidates for governor – Evan Falchuk of the United Independent Party, Jeff McCormick, and Scott Lively – each captured 2 percent of likely voters, including leaners.

The poll surveyed 600 registered voters from September 26 to Oct. 2 and has a margin of error of 4.6 percent.
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/06/baker-coakley-virtual-dead-heat-poll-shows/hKDV4bvyn4Eabm7n5D44aM/story.html

[bullwinkle428]

1. She may be a very fine public servant, but it seems obvious at this

point that she's a lousy campaigner.

Not that I have any room to talk as a resident of Iowa, where a very good liberal candidate (who has made a couple of "gaffes" on the campaign trail) may very well lose the Senate race to an absolute nut-job who believes that Iraq actually did have WMDs, believes in the concept of nullification (essentially - the 10th Amendment doesn't exist), and believes in the "Personhood" amendment, among other things.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. if she gets Sen Warren to campaign with her,

it will help.

[KoKo]

3. I didn't know she was running for Governor in MA

until someone on DU posted it a few days ago. I thought Dems were discouraged with her campaign performance when she ran for Senate. Why aren't there any better Dem candidates running...in the home state of the Kennedys? I was shocked when Mitt Romney became Gov.

[Blue_Adept]

4. There were

But they lost in the primary. so we have Coakley.

Honestly, even if she loses, it's not a really big issue when you get down to it here. The majority is run by Democrats in the house and senate and when we had Romney, he was overridden with just about everything because there's such a huge margin that his veto was useless.

I'm certainly not advocating for a Republican, but even at the higher level here, the Republicans arent' batshit crazy like elsewhere. So they can be stemmed and handled better.

Hell, some of my favorite politicians of years past from MA are Republicans. But they'd be called left wing loonies today.

[cali]

5. I think it's an issue. No, I don't live in MA

I live in VT. We had a repub governor for 8 years. Yes, we also have super majorities in our house and Senate, but a governor can set an agenda in a way the legislature cannot.

[KoKo]

6. Thanks for that info. Makes sense.

I have relatives there...but, we don't discuss politics. They are Moderate Republicans...and as you say...compared to the Tea Party Crazies they are Democrats.