Gritty Gloucester Man Puts Kerry to Test
The BOSTON HERALD reports that John Kerry may be vulnerable in his first primary challenge since being elected to the Senate in 1984. A Suffolk University poll from last year showed only 37% of Massachusetts voters supported his re-election.
I have been supporting the candidacy of his Republican challenger, Jeff Beatty, on the assumption that Beatty would be matched up with Kerry. Wouldn’t it be a shocker if Kerry doesn’t get past his primary challenge with Ed O’Reilly!!
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2008_06_13_
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O’Reilly is the perfect messenger for all those disappointed Hillaryites, especially the women who want to show Kerry just how angry they are that he accepted women’s work to elect him to four six-year terms, but abandoned the first woman with a serious shot for president.
Indeed, the buzz at the convention was that Kerry’s poll numbers are almost as bad as they were last year when Suffolk University showed 56 percent of voters sampled statewide saying it’s “time for someone else.” Only 37 percent favored his re-election.Kerry’s trying hard to change that. At the state convention, he said, “With your help” Democrats could gain as many as seven Senate seats - enough to end GOP filibusters. And if Obama wins, Democrats could usher in “the first moment of progressive legislating since Lyndon Johnson was president.”
But O’Reilly will be no pushover on Kerry’s way to a general election match with Republican Jeff Beatty.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Not so fast, Kerry has ahead in the latest poll, way ahead.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_senate_elections/massachusetts/election_2008_massachusetts_senate