Breitbart reports a poll that might cause the left some grief in the quest to keep an evenly divided Senate:
This is not a surprise for several reasons:
- Charlie Baker was an incredibly popular governor
- Charlie Baker was an incredibly competent governor
- On Social issues you would be hard pressed to fit a playing card between Baker & Warren
And as Breitbart notes Baker is a lot more popular than Warren:
Senator Warren has significantly higher unfavorable numbers than her fellow Democrats statewide and that seems to be creating an opening for Baker, who always enjoyed large amounts of cross-party appeal. Looking at the cross tabs, Republicans seem to coalesce behind Baker (79%) in a way that Democrats do not around Warren (56%), and Baker leads with independent/unenrolled voters 2-1 at 57-26%.
Warren’s favorability rating is 5 points above water, with 49 percent finding her favorable and 44 percent saying she is unfavorable, including 35 percent who find her “very unfavorable.” As Craney pointed out, her favorability rating indicates she is far less secure than some of her fellow prominent elected Democrat officials in the Bay State.
Now while it would be nice to have a Ted Cruz or a John Kennedy (of LA) win a US senate race in Massachusetts, with the current state of our state voting population there would be a better chance of the Red Sox signing me as a 60 year old pinch runner off the bench next week than an actual full blown conservative winning a statewide election for US Senate. Until and unless we educate and persuade the electorate Baker is likely the best we can realistically get and in terms of competence he would be a giant step forward for Massachusetts, plus it’s always useful to have a person with executive experience in the Senate.
This should send the fear of God into the left although there would be several bright sides for the left:
- Baker would almost certainly be voting with Democrats 10-20% of the time
- He would be the MSM’s “goto” republican on any social issues we attempt to advance
- He could reliably be expected to attack a President Trump and make any opposition to him be by definition “bipartisan”
But that extra vote to give the gavel to McConnell and stop Biden judges in their tracks would outweigh those disadvantages.
However there is one question that needs to be asked before we break out the bubbly.
Has anyone asked Charlie Baker if he wants the job?
Right now Charlie Baker is president of the NCAA. I’m sure like all jobs it has ups and downs but I suspect it’s a job he enjoys and I don’t doubt for one moment that it’s a job he doing well because it rewards competence which Baker has by the bucketful.
So can someone explain to me why Baker would leave that job to enter a race where he’ll be targeted, attacked and get grief from an incredibly polarized electorate and even risk physical attack (and he’s a really big target, seriously that guy is tall).
Why would he abandon the sweet gig he has for all that grief? I don’t see him doing it and until someone convinces me otherwise I’m not going to get my knickers in an uproar.
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The problem with RINOs is that, they become Fifth Columnists, and perhaps do more harm, than good. And giving to McConnell the gavel, won’t sit well with most GOPers. It’s bad enough that some red states send to the Senate, RINOs, without giving the RINOs more power, to control the GOP’s direction, when the GOP has power.
Notice that, when the Dems have power, we never hear about the Gang of This Or That Number.
If it’s McConnell or Schumer having the gavel I’ll take McConnel every day and twice on sunday
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