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How about a Brown-Coakley rematch?
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jun 12, 2011 02:13pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Joan Vennochi |
| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Sunday, June 12, 2011 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "EVERYONE loves a rematch. Sox-Yankees. Celtics-Lakers.
How about Brown-Coakley? That would be high political drama.
Everyone knows the basic Coakley narrative: The Massachusetts AG waged a terrible campaign against Republican Scott Brown, a likable hunk with a great pickup truck and an even greater voter pick-up line. He was running for “the people’s seat,’’ while Coakley ran a dull quest for Ted Kennedy’s seat. Brown beat her in a now-legendary special election, and the rest is history, including Coakley’s disdain for shaking hands in the cold.
The 100,000 votes that separated them are routinely cast as a humiliating drubbing from which she can never recover.
But a recent survey by the Democratic polling company Public Policy Polling casts doubt on that pat conclusion.
Brown is popular and comfortably ahead of any potential Democratic rival. But Coakley comes closest to giving him a real fight in 2012. According to this poll, which surveyed 957 Massachusetts voters from June 2 to 5, Brown beats Coakley 49 to 40 percent, with 10 percent undecided. She’s not in the race, but she’s the most likable and well-known Democrat in the survey.
Yet, as local Democrats bemoan the low wattage of the current field, it’s funny who gets written off as damaged goods and who doesn’t. Warren Tolman — a former state senator who ran for lieutenant governor on a losing Democratic ticket and then went on to lose a 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary bid — is touted by some as a strong Brown challenger. Republican Charlie Baker ran a lackluster gubernatorial campaign that is considered a warm-up for another run." |
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