Black Dems Show Black Republicans How Its Done

1:43 am EST September 28th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

It may seem like Democrats should automatically win the governorship in Massachusetts, but in fact since Michael Dukakis left office in 1991, the Bay State has had 4 straight Republican governors. Deval Patrick seems strongly poised to change that script.

A new Boston TV poll released yesterday afternoon showed Democrat Deval Patrick leading the gubernatorial pack with a 39 point lead over Republican Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey.

In the survey of 608 likely voters, 64 percent said they would vote for Patrick; 25 percent vouched for Healey; 5 percent supported Independent Christy Mihos and only 1 percent stood by Green-Rainbow Party candidate Grace Ross.

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4 Responses to “Black Dems Show Black Republicans How Its Done”

  1. Niraj says:
    September 28, 2006 at 11:52 am

    Massachusetts is the bluest state in the Union, so Deval Patrick winning the primary, and leading his Republican rival, is hardly surprising.

  2. Dan says:
    September 28, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    I was actually really re-assured by the town level breakdown the Boston Globe provided. Seems that the white suburbs voted for Patrick at rates that show that MA may actually be ready for a black governer. I was really scared that people would say they would vote for the black man, but not actually do it in the privacy of the polls.

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    September 28, 2006 at 12:27 pm

    As I pointed out in my entry, Niraj, a Dem winning the gubernatorial race in bluest MA hasn’t happened in 15 years.

  4. Constantine says:
    September 28, 2006 at 1:43 pm

    As I pointed out in my entry, Niraj, a Dem winning the gubernatorial race in bluest MA hasn’t happened in 15 years.

    Correction… it hasn’t happened in 20 years. Michael Dukakis left office in 1991, but he was re-elected in 1986.

    Go Deval… voting for him by absentee ballot was one of my last official acts as a MA resident before I moved to DC.

    Also, Democratic party politics in MA is so heavily dominated by the state and local party machines that for a complete outsider to win the Democratic primary in a landslide is huge.