New Poll: Martha Coakley Poised to Snatch Defeat from Jaws of Victory

[cali]

For several weeks now, the question about Martha Coakley was whether she could, once again, blow a race she was highly favored to win. According to a newly released Boston Globe poll, the answer may be yes.

Charlie Baker, the Republican in the race in the overwhelmingly Democratic state, has opened up a 9-point lead over Coakley, 45 percent to 36 percent, the poll found.

Just a week ago, the paper had the two candidates tied, so there is reason to take a guarded view of the new poll. Then again, voters appear to be warming to Baker at just the right time.

“There is just positive movement in every single metric we can ask around Baker.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-24/new-poll-martha-coakley-poised-to-snatch-defeat-from-jaws-of-victory

[bigdarryl]

1. That's the stupid democrats fault in that state for picking this loser as the candidate

After that disastrous campaign against Scott Brown.

[JI7]

2. she must be an example of someone who is "book smart" but still seems so clueless

when it comes to people .

[Mutiny In Heaven]

3. She must be the worst candidate in the history of Democratic politics

It takes someone remarkably awful to lose twice in high-profile, state-wide elections as a Democrat in Massachusetts.

[Sancho]

4. Sink keeps on losing in Florida...and the DNC keeps putting her on the ticket...

[JI7]

6. at least she tries and florida is not a deep blue state like mass

[FBaggins]

8. I wasn't a big fan... but in her defense...

she did MUCH better in March than the current DNC candidate will do. Because we don't even have one.

[stevenleser]

15. Sink is a very cool person when you meet her. I knew her years before she or her late husband

got involved in politics. Add her business success and she probably seems like an attractive candidate. I haven't been in Florida for the times she ran for office so I can't speak to how she did at campaigning, but Florida is a tough state to win a statewide race in for anyone.

[markpkessinger]

5. Kinda makes me want to bash my head against a wall n/t

[Xipe Totec]

7. What is the definition of insanity? nt

[seaglass]

9. Well I can tell you that the teacher's union endorsed her and then she came out saying she supports

more charter schools (summary from my daughter). My daughter (a new teacher) was very upset because she felt she couldn't vote for her. We had the lesser of two evils discussion.

On edit: Deval Patrick threw public unions under the bus so it's not so unusual for Dems in MA to do that.

[beachbum bob]

10. reflects how poorly the people of Mass choose their candidates

I shake my head but we have same problem here in Illinois with an inept Democratic Governor leading the state to oblivion by surrounding himself with incompetent staff and managers.

but who in their right mind would want to be politics with all the absolute cap and BS you must withstand? Only egomaniacs and incompetents.....

[deutsey]

11. Like the Washington Generals

the Democrats could sure use this:

[Chathamization]

12. Ugh…it’s stuff like this that really starts to get to me. She won over a single-payer supporter

with the plurality of the 17% who bothered to show up for the primaries. Coakley got 6% of the eligible voters to vote for her in the primary, more than the 3% that voted for this guy:

On June 17, 2013, Berwick announced his run for the Massachusetts Governor's office. Berwick framed himself as progressive on major issues…Some of Berwick's specific goals for the governorship included focusing on job creationand economic development, instituting single-payer healthcare in Massachusetts, and ending child poverty in the state by the year 2024.

(with another candidate getting 5.1%)

[lonestarnot]

13. Oh boy a richie richer heartwarming puke in.

[Mass]

14. Sure, because every single poll is the same. Stupidity among Democrats stuns me.

BTW, thank you to all of you who sat on their ass criticizing our candidate while Baker gets tons of money from t he RGA. Once again, the DGA reads us totally wrong and assumes MA will elect a Democrat as governor. OUr history since the 90s is that we elect moderate Republicans.

But, while the race is not where I would want to be, trusting ONE poll is stupid.

[stevenleser]

16. It's time to be concerned. Almost all of the recent polls show Baker ahead...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/governor/ma/massachusetts_governor_baker_vs_coakley-3266.html