Sunday, January 10, 2010

Public Policy Prescience?

I'll be looking into these new MA Senate poll numbers from Public Policy Polling in more depth later, but they certainly seem to show a grim story for Democratic nominee Martha Coakley. According to PPP, GOP nominee Scott Brown leads Coakley 48-47. The numbers from PPP show him with a net favorability rating of +32 (compared with Coakley's +8 rating). Anger about the health-care reform bill in the Senate is clearly driving people to Brown (voters also seem upset about talk about delaying the certification of the election in the case of a hypothetical Brown win). Independents are flocking to Brown 63-31, a margin that is in line with Rasmussen's poll earlier this week.