A new poll by the Western New England University Polling Institute and the Springfield Republican newspaper shows Democrat Elizabeth Warren with a five-point lead over Senator Scott Brown, but the survey also found that a greater number of likely voters view both candidates unfavorably in the final weeks of the race.
Warren leads Brown 50 percent to 45 percent, according to the survey — the seventh of eight polls in the past month that found Warren with a lead in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country. But compared with a previous poll taken by Western New England University three weeks ago, the negative marks for both candidates have jumped as the campaign has taken on an increasing heated tone in the final stretch.
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In case you still think Scott is for the middle class:
(and you can verify by checking his voting record.)
" Wall Street never wanted to see Elizabeth Warren sworn into the Senate,
and now it's flooding her opponent’s campaign coffers in the final stretch
of one of the closest races in the country.
Scott Brown raked in more than $500,000 from employees and PACs
in the financial sector in June, the most recent month of data available,
a report compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics for POLITICO found.
That’s more than he’s gotten from the industry in any month since the start of last year.
Brown has already received more than $3.3 million from the finance, insurance and
real estate industries this cycle, according to CRP, more than any other member of Congress
or congressional candidate.
The cash is more a testament to the industry’s anxiety about Warren than a preference for Brown.
Warren — a Harvard Law professor and the Democratic architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
— built her reputation as an anti-Wall Street crusader.
As Warren’s performance in the polls improved, pulling ahead by a few points in the last few weeks,
the industry's support for Brown has intensified. "
Still, he is arguing that he is bipartisan.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81876.html#ixzz28XcFpvDH
Check out the Wall Street types giving to Warren. Not to mention the billionaire funded PACs.
The Wall Street types are giving to Warren at about a 6:1 ratio in favor of Brown. I suppose there are maybe 20% Wall Street types who are Democratic. Billionaire funded PAC's can be by Democratic billionaires--believe it or not. Does not change the fact that Brown is a Wall Street darling. During the Dodd-Frank financial reform debate in early 2010, newly elected Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts was referred to as an ATM for the bankers -- meaning that whenever they needed some more cash, they would stop by his office. It was not paper money he was handing out, of course, it was something much more valuable -- rule changes that conferred a greater ability to take on reckless risk, damage consumers, and impose higher future costs on the taxpayer. Mr. Brown had this ability because he represented the final vote needed to pass Dodd-Frank through the Senate. He could have asked for many things -- including greater consumer protection, a more thorough investigation into mortgage practices, and reforms that would have cleaned up unscrupulous lenders. He asked for none of those changes -- or anything else that would have made the financial system safer and fairer. Simon Johnson: Scott Brown: ATM for the Big Banks Scott Brown: ATM for the Big Banks.html
Nobody believes Boston Globe polls.
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Ticky Tacky always makes that comment when the results don't suit him.
Who will ever forget the following Globe's headline in January 2010, ten days before the Brown-Coakley election: "Coakley in Comfortable 10-point lead over Brown", or words to that effect? Brown, like every non-liberal candidate in Massachusetts, will always do better than his polls.
If that's a comfort to you, keep thinking that way. Who am I to challenge your fantasy?
Coakley had soft support and there was no other reason for Dems to go to the polls. This time it's a presidential election and Obama has a huge lead in this state.
Keep up the drumbeat *er* maybe not the right word for EW. Scott Brown will be elected and by 2018 the Boston Globe will cease to exist
If Brown doesn't have a five point lead going into voting day he might as well start his campaign for Governor.
He would do better as a lobbyist.
If he loses the senate I hope he does run for governor. We cannot make it with anymore liberals running this state.
It's always the same for those on the right. If their candidate is ahead in the poll, it's proof that they're right. If their candidate is behind in the poll, the poll is wrong.
I don't notice that phenomenon so much by moderates and liberals.
I am so sick of listening to Scott Brown constantly using character assination to put Eliabeth Warren down. Has he truly looked at himself? He will not identify with the Republican party when he is in MA but is more than willing to do so when he is out in the other states looking for money for his campaign. Why doesn't he just decide that he is not an "R" instead of pretneding to be what his is not?!
The Republicans are giving Scott very big money because they do not want "Consumer Protection" Warren in the Senate where she will have a bully pulpit and a vote against big bands and big oil. But Scott has to pretend to be bipartisan to get elected in MA.
make that banks--no know position on bands.
We don't need another liberal in this state folks. I certainly hope the poll showing her leading is wrong.
Speak for yourself. And don't tell me what I need.