Kerry Healey’s got Deval Patrick right where she wants him. According to a new poll by Suffolk University and WHDH-TV (Channel 7), Healey now trails Patrick by 27 points. Healey’s unfavorable rating is up to 53 percent.
Obviously Healey’s strategy of buying boneheadedly offensive attack ads is working: Patrick’s folks are now likely to become overconfident, thus increasing the chance that he’ll blow it down the stretch.
Via Blue Mass. Group, which also has poll results showing Patrick ahead by 25 points and 24 points.
Patrick should ask his Internet supporters to send money to Healey so that she can buy some more ads.
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Couldn’t have said it better. An anti-campaign is not a campaign. Time to retire the jumpsuits and talk about real issues, Madame Criminologist…
An anti-campaign is not a campaign … ? We were talking about Healey here, not the historic national Democratic efforts. Please stay on subject. =)
I think Patrick should ask his Internet supporters to send money to Healey so that she can buy some more shirts. Based on her commercials, she just has that one (which she apparently can’t even manage to tuck in).
Should she have NOT run the ads?She had to do something….I simply consider it a “punt”….
With numbers like this, overconfidence hardly seems possible. Tellingly, Howie Carr has written off Muffy and is reduced to trying to avoid a rout of what remains of GOP representation in the legislature.
healey has only one move: go super-negative. Deval and Kim Jong-Il side by side in an ad: elect Patrick and this man will blow up the world. i mean, what choice does she have? oh yeah … show some class.
SEIU radio ad by Locust Valley Lockjaw actor portraying “Muffy”- not negative, just humor, (before they knew her opponent)Healey ad in garage- deeply racist and negativethis is a Rorschach test as much as an election, everyone sees what they want. How sad.
anon1113,OK, I’ll bite. What on earth are you talking about?
Slightly off topic, but where did Jay Fitzgerald disappear to? I’d love to hear his take on all this.
bostonph: I’ve been wondering the same thing. Jay? Jay!
Jay’s updated his blog to say his mother died over the weekend. My condolences.
Sorry 3:14,Some of us live in MA. There’s a gubernatorial campaign under way up here. WRKO, a local radio station, (among others), ran a 6 week (and six-figure!)flight of SEIU ads mocking Healey during the spring and summer. Thought to be merely juvenile at the time, it turned out to be brilliant, reinforcing Healey negatives before SEIU knew whom they were actually FOR. We’re about to find out WHY they were for Deval.11:13