Western NE University: Obama +30 in MA! (Obama 63, Romney 33)

[TroyD]

Monday, October 08, 2012,

Democratic President Barack Obama’s lead over Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is growing in Massachusetts, and is now up to 30 points, according to a new poll conducted by the Western New England University Polling Institute for The Republican and MassLive.com.

The poll, conducted Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, finds Obama getting support from 63 percent of likely Massachusetts voters compared to 33 percent for Romney, with 3 percent undecided. The poll does not take into account the impact of the first presidential debate - in which Romney was widely viewed as the winner - since only one night of polling was done after that.

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/10/president_barack_obama_holds_3.html

[frazzled]

1. Remember, it's Mitt's homey-home state

The one in which he boasted at the debate to have worked so well with Democrats. Apparently, Massachusettsans don't agree.

Remember when Al Gore lost Tennessee? It was considered to be a shocker. Now no one cares.

[TroyD]

2. Shouldn't Obama get a dig in about Massachusetts?

I was thinking about this the other night.

If Romney keeps bragging about how great and beloved he is in MA, shouldn't Obama shut him down by saying, "How come you're running 30 points down there, then?"

[WI_DEM]

3. mostly prior to debate, but doubt it would fall too much

To win by 25-30 points is amazing and would even be better than 2008.

[rox63]

4. Mittens is widely despised in Massachusetts

We know him better than most other states. To know Mittens is to despise him.

[thelordofhell]

5. To know Mittens is to despise him

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (oops, my zero button broke)

[tarheelsunc]

6. The state that knows him best hates him most?

What can that possibly say, except that he's a poor executive leader?

[TexasCPA]

7. Has a former governor ever lost the state they governed?

Reagan was even able to in California. I am too lazy to track down all these people though:

Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia, 1779-81
James Monroe, Governor of Virginia, 1799-1802
Andrew Jackson, Governor of the Florida Territory, 1821
Martin Van Buren, Governor of New York, 1829
William Henry Harrison, Territorial Governor of Indiana, 1801-13
John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, 1825-26
James Knox Polk, Governor of Tennessee, 1839-41
Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee, 1853-57, Military Governor of Tennessee, 1862-65
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Governor of Ohio, 1868-72, Governor of Ohio, 1876-77
Grover Cleveland, Governor of New York, 1883-85
William McKinley, Governor of Ohio, 1892-96
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of New York, 1898-1900
William Howard Taft, Governor of the Philippines, 1901-04
Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13
Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts, 1919-20
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York, 1929-33
James Earl Carter, Jr., Governor of Georgia, 1971-75
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Governor of California, 1967-75
William Jefferson Clinton, Governor of Arkansas, 1978-80, 1982-92
George Walker Bush, Governor of Texas, 1995-2000

[Comrade_McKenzie]

8. This will help Warren. nt