OMG! Scott Brown in more popular than Kerry or Obama in MA (Boston Globe poll)

[WI_DEM]

Republican Sen. Scott Brown is the most popular elected official in Massachusetts, according to a Boston Globe poll out Monday.


Brown has been in the Senate for only five months but manages to outpoll both Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and President Barack Obama in the deeply Democratic state.


Fifty-five percent of the 558 Massachusetts adults polled said they have a favorable view of Brown, compared to 54 percent for Obama and 52 percent for Kerry.


While the favorable ratings in Massachusetts are very close for Brown, Kerry and Obama, the unfavorable numbers for the two Democrats are much higher than Brown’s.


Forty-one percent of those polled have an unfavorable view of Obama and 37 percent have the same view of Kerry. Brown meanwhile only gets an unfavorable response from 18 percent of the state.


Brown is wildly popular among Republicans, with 79 percent holding a favorable view of the senator and only 3 percent having an unfavorable one.


But even among Democrats, more view him favorably — 41 percent — than unfavorably —32 percent.

The poll was done for the Globe by the University of New Hampshire’s Survey Center and was conducted June 17-23. The survey has a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39095.html#ixzz0sAZsa6aL

[Blue Owl]

1. God I just love Chancey Gardner -- he's so popular!

n/t

[valerief]

16. Ha!!!!! nt

[Jennicut]

2. Brown was at 55%, Obama ay 54, with a margin of error of 4%.

Can someone say reaching?
Also, the media in Mass kiss Brown's ass constantly. Kind of sickening, really.
So glad the media in Connecticut is not loving Linda McMahon. Don't want to be stuck with her for 6 years.

[City of Mills]

22. Basically, 307 people favor Brown, 301 favor Obama

This should be a breaking national news story!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I wonder if any of these people have ever wathed him being interviewed since

he started on the senate. He seems to have an almost "cluless Bushian" quality about him.

[MBS]

6. yup, especially when he's not talking from a prepared text.

Affable , but shallow, at best.

[blm]

9. yes...and corpmedia lauds his showing up at picnics while Kerry's ignored for going to Mideast

to talk to Israel and Palestinian leaders over the last weekend.

It really has been bizarro world with the MSM for far too long.

[bergie321]

17. Yeah, but

He has a truck.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. Holy pick ups Batman you're right!

[MBS]

4. note that favorability rating differences between Brown and Kerry (and Obama)

are only 3 points difference, WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR of 4.2%.
That said, I find Brown's "popularity" depressing, as Sen. Kerry's ratings are based on a long track record of substantive, positive work, for the state and for the country,along with several individual acts of physical and political courage, and Brown so far has only his victory against a Dem candidate who chose not to campaign, his "affability", and a string of no votes (including, most recently, his vote against the jobs bill) to support his favorability ratings.

[Armstead]

5. People like you until you start to actually do things

Brown hasn't done enough to rile people up. So he can get away with being cheerfully innucuous and thus popular.

When he has more mileage under his belt his numbers will drop.

[JaneQPublic]

11. Give him time. He still has his new truck smell. (nt)

[NYC Liberal]

13. Well let's not let him get very much mileage under his belt.

He's up for election in 2012.

[karynnj]

14. Exactly

Not to mention millions (billions ?) were spent to increase Obama's and Kerry's negatives. Very little was done to raise Brown's. (It still stuns me that Republicans think that Brown's famous modeling is a plus.)

[blm]

7. Brown's top sycophant in Mass wrote the article. Viser has invested his career in Brown

fully expecting that the GOP will succeed in putting Brown in the WH.

[pretzel4gore]

8. the mass media are al queda terrorists, of sorts

and we needa round them up, shoot them and make the press free (and profitable) for once.
Let free market forces rule (klol)
scott brown is a corporate slut as bad as obama/kerry etc. His popularity says only that corporate sluttery is still allowed though it's clearly destroying life on the planet

[Blue Owl]

10. Brown/Greene 2012

Nobody's heard of them, but they win by a landslide.

[KingFlorez]

12. Considering he's still a freshman, of course his numbers are going to be higher

But statistically, they really are not that much higher than Obama or Kerry, which says a lot about Brown. If he's about as popular as a long-time incumbent and the President in rough economic times, he's not in that great of a position.

[karynnj]

15. Especially as he was in the 70s in January

I think there is an issue of timing as well - the survey was just after he crossed the aisle to pass financial reform and before the last two votes against the unemployment insurance extension, summer jobs and aid to states, including $700 million to MA. That could cause some who believed him when he said he would vote for what is good for MA.

I would bet that had they waited a week, including that and his new position on financial reform (no because he doesn't want the banks to pay a fee that pays for the regulation and a fund in case of future problems.), that Obama and Kerry would both be higher than him. The weird thing in this poll is that 41% of the Democrats said they approved. A very high percent of Democrats wanted that unemployment bill passed.

[Mass]

18. All three are at the same level. And this was taken before Brown voted against

the tax extenders, cutting unemployment for 90000 people in MA and depriving the state of a lot of money for Medicaid.

[Mass]

20. Particularly amusing given that yesterday. the Globe said Patrick was doomed for being 8 % AHEAD of

his challenger. My guess is that they dont have the same standard depending whether you talk about Dems and Republicans.

[LeftyAndProud60]

21. I never liked that state. NT

[Jennicut]

23. For what reason? Most of New England is very liberal in general.

I have been to Mass plenty of times since I was kid (being from CT) and I do indeed, like it.