Polls: Elizabeth Warren opens up a lead over Scott Brown
Elizabeth Warren, direct to camera. elizabethwarren.com
11:43 am Oct. 19, 20121
A new poll released yesterday from the left-leaning Public Policy Polling shows Elizabeth Warren opening up a nine-point lead over Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race.
It's the largest lead of the campaign for Warren, who has gained three points since they polled the race last week.
Brown's approval rating is evenly split, 46 percent to 45 percent who disapprove of his job performance. And Warren has opened up leads with most age and gender demographics, including among male voters, 50 percent to 48 percent.
The sudden lead is good news for Democrats, who have seen sure-things in Connecticut and Pennsylvania become close contests in recent weeks.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee just reported a record $29.2 million quarter, with more than $15 million raised in September alone. But the less they can spend in Massachusetts, which has already become the most expensive Senate race in history, the more they'll be free to influence other races.
The Massachusetts Senate race has become something of a cause in New York too. Liberal donors—rich and (relatively) poor—have flocked to Warren's throwback progressivism, while the financial services industry has stocked Brown's coffers.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently hosted Brown for a fund-raiser, and though the senator's name wasn't floated among the congressional candidates Bloomberg plans to boost with his new super PAC, the mayor spoke favorably of him in that context this morning.
Mrs. Warren isn't a communist, but Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Comissioner Ray Kelly's NYC is. Police comitting so many illegal misdeeds knowing that Bloomberg and Kelly will have their back and let them keep their job. The NYPD is being sued left and right because people feel that it is the only recourse when the NYPD won't discipline bad behaving officers. NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna was rewarded for pepper spraying 3 female Occupy protesters. He was given a job closer to home. The three ladies that were sprayed are suing the NYPD and Deputy Inspector Bologna over the incident. Go on Youtube, you will find videos of the NYPD violently overstepping that can be easily mistaked for videos from some parts of Europe and the Middle East. Plus, Bloomberg telling people what they can/cannot eat and drink and banning large cups of soda? NYC is a communistic Nanny State/Police State.