Scott Brown leads Coakley 47% to 44% in Coakley’s own internal poll!

twitterbrown_biggerSteve Kornacki has written for the New York Observer and Roll Call. He has also appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CBS and NPR as well as numerous local media outlets in New York City. He’s also a flaming liberal who’s bagged on Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani and other non-leftists numerous times on tingle legal Chris Matthew’s “Hardball” show on MSNBC. Yet even Kornacki is reporting that according to Coakley’s own internal polling, she trails Scott Brown by 3% as of Thursday night. The night before, her polling showed her with a slim lead of 46 to 44 percent.

The last time a public poll showed a Republican leading a Massachusetts Senate race this close to the election was, well….never. There were no public polls released in the week leading up to the 1972 election, the last one won by a Republican (Ed Brooke, who was re-elected in a landslide over John Droney). And since then, Democrats have enjoyed the stretch-run advantage in every Senate race in the state. The closest the GOP came was in 1996, when Bill Weld was within a few points of John Kerry just before Election Day; Weld lost that race by seven points.

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January 15, 2010 · Filed Under Scott Brown


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