According to a poll released yesterday, the first elected African American governor of Massachusetts is extremely unpopular and in danger of losing his re-election bid next year:
When matched against Christy Mihos, the Democratic governor picks up 40% of the vote and trails the potential GOP nominee by a single point.
If Charlie Baker is the Republican nominee, Patrick’s support is little changed at 41% while Baker is favored by 36%. Baker is a health care chief executive officer who has not yet formally decided if he is entering the race.
In both match-ups, the number preferring “some other candidate” is in double digits, and roughly one-out-of-10 voters is undecided.
The fact that the numbers are so similar regardless of which Republican is mentioned suggest that the race so far is viewed as a referendum on the incumbent rather than a choice between competing alternatives.
Patrick has been plagued with poor job approval numbers in recent months. Currently, just 42% approve of the way he’s doing his job and 57% disapprove. Those figures include 11% who Strongly Approve at a time when 32% Strongly Disapprove.
It’s not hard to see why Patrick is in such trouble. He just signed a $1 billion tax increase, and is leaving the door open to a tax increase.
Patrick and Obama are two peas in a pod - good friends who share similar positions, themes, and language. When Patrick was elected in 2006, the state budget was $21.8 billion. The 2010 budget he approved clocks in at just over $27 billion. That’s a spending increase of 24 percent in just 2 years! The voters of Massachusetts apparently don’t believe that throwing money at the problem has done any good, and now they’re taking a huge new tax hit because of Patrick’s profligate spending.
Sound familiar?
Republicans are left in the position of hoping that the badly-wounded Patrick manages to get the Democratic nomination again - but they have to be cheered at the news that David Plouffe will head up Patrick’s effort. If he faces the voters in 2010 and has to defend an agenda very similar to that of Barack Obama, there’s a good chance the nation’s bluest state will again have a Republican Governor.
Deval Had Axelrod Last Time
Swamp_Yankee Tuesday, June 30th at 1:31PM EDT (link)I guess he’s too busy. Mihos is a novelty with little chance. But an ineresting side note, he has Dick Morris in his camp. Baker is the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim and has no name recognition. He’ll outpace Mihos once known.
MAss is a lost cause, but nationally, it does have an impact on NH. The demise of the Boston Globe will be a blessing for the GOP in NH
Deval ironically , has postioned himself to the Right of the legislature, hard to believe. Two things he has going for him is that he is not an outright crook like the imbedded hacks in the state house and the beaurocracies and he actually demanded some reforms before he raised taxes. Big whoop, I know.
Not Dead Yet!
More blowback from Deval's
blooch Tuesday, June 30th at 1:59PM EDT (link)car giveaway to welfare recipients? Working people already hate him for it, and who’s gonna ride in the vans for the tour of polling places on election night? And what good is walking around money, when everybody’s drivng around?
“I have to admit that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a smart man. He was, in many ways, a psychologist.”–drealoth
Troubles
1stRichard Tuesday, June 30th at 7:24PM EDT (link)Former republican governors here in Taxachusetts, the Marxist welfare have an image problem
As former Governor of Massachusetts Romney he was well known as absent Romney. He always had some other special interest and little interest in the individual. His move to reduce taxes was offset by calling them fees and resulted in bigger government to collect all those fees. Romney’s health care reform how ever well intended let socialist health care get a foot in the door. If we define success as getting legislation passed then Romney is as fiscally conservative as GW Bush. He was for abortion when he ran for governor and then said he was against abortion when he ran for President. How much can you trust someone that uses conservative values as a stepping stone?
Former Governor Cellucci was fiscal conservative but anti gun and a social liberal. Former Governor Cellucci’s had pattern in his party of naming close political allies to key jobs and not by qualification, one of the most controversial appointees was to Logan and Massport. In 1999, the major airlines at Logan and Massport were fined a total of $178,000 for at least 136 security violations over the previous two years. After some 52 warnings of possible terrorist activity we had 9|11. American Flight 11 and United Flight 175 took off from Logan. Within an hour, they had been taken over by terrorists and flown into New York’s twin towers. How much can you trust a republican governor that takes a large responsibility for bringing down the twin towers?
We need an outsider to run in the GOP, no more RINOs. I had run across Dr. Gerry Dembrowski that is in running for governor here and is as most of us fed up with the SNAFU here. I must give him at least ten points for preaching from the constitution and appeared to be a political outsider with common sense. Ok, I’ll give him ten more points. However he is up against a huge liberal propaganda campaign with an incumbent with tons of favors to hand out. However Dr. Gerry Dembrowski has backing that is much more willing to put more boots on the ground such as the 9|12ers here. I see the Mass GOP missing out on a huge opportunity in not having attacked Deval Patrick in the Mass media in every part of the state now.
People in Taxachusetts, the Marxist welfare are hurting, not only do we have the state taxes going up we are having a flurry of town and city overrides to further increase taxes. There is a big SNAFU here with the stimulus funds. The towns and cities can’t afford all those studies required under the stimulus stipulations resulting in big construction layoffs. I think it would be fair to say federal tax increases are coming as well.
For those that don’t think this is a Marxist state, not only is the government after our guns but now they are after our microwave ovens. They want to limit their capacity to 500W, not be large enough to be able to fit an animal into, must be equipped with a motion sensor …. immediately turn off the cooking mechanism, no microwave oven may be sold at a yard sale or flea market, limit purchasing over the net and so on….
http://www.openmass.org/bills/show/23262
People here are really getting fed up with this crap and now is the time for the GOP to take over the state, but will they make a move?