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Related: About this forumLocal Politics UMass Lowell-Herald poll: Ed Markey 20 points ahead of Gomez
by Joe Battenfeld
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Gomez has been hammered by a late round of negative TV ads that has driven up his unfavorable ratings and hampered his ability to get closer to his Democratic rival, according to the poll of 608 registered Massachusetts voters, including 312 likely voters taken this week.
Gomez is in a deep hole right now and it has more to do with lopsided campaign spending than anything else, said Joshua Dyck, co-director of the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion. Markey is just beating him up.
Good article!
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/06/umass_lowell_herald_poll_ed_markey_20_points_ahead_of_gomez
I don't know how exact this poll is but the article is enlighting as to what Markey is up to these last days of his campaign.
I'm guessing the "the negative ads" "hammered" at Gomez are ads that are actually highlighting his history.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)pointing out a Republican's record or views is "beating him up?"
Cha
(297,655 posts)They did the same with the Bains "negative ads" at mitt. Pres Obama was accused of "swiftboating" him by the US media.
If this story is coming from The Boston Herald~ you know Gomez is going down! They swing right!
Hope Gomez remembers to bring his seal suit!
Go Markey!!!!!!
Oh and would you look at this. Someone elses #'s are Rising!
This is the Boston strong era, Dyck said.
- See more at: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/06/umass_lowell_herald_poll_ed_markey_20_points_ahead_of_gomez#sthash.EcmIrJo6.dpuf
This is RICH!
Great new for Boston, Cha~
Thank You!
Cha
(297,655 posts)I thought you would like this..
This is the Boston strong era, Dyck said.
It is Good News for Boston~ They so deserve it!
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)strung across Main Street!
~~~~ VOTE TUESDAY!~~~~~
Yes we can, Cha!
K&R!
Patriots, she! I love them!
OT.. there's guy in our building in Kaua'i that got a job in Boston. He's so happy and can't wait to show Boston to his wife and son through his eyes(he's been and she hasn't).
When he told me I got chills and told him about my long distance love affair with the city even though I had never been. He agreed with my points and then gave me his email to correspond even though I hardly know them.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Poor Baby~
Great Vid!
http://landing.newsinc.com/bostonherald/video2.html?freewheel=90017&sitesection=bostonherald&VID=24894882
I feel like Markeys trying to scare women against Gabriel, Sarah Gomez told the Herald in a rare interview, saying the negative ads have led many women voters to avoid the race altogether.
I was with a group of young women and they said that they are not interested in politics because of all the fighting and all the negative ads on TV, she said.
- See more at: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2013/06/gomez_wife_slams_markey#sthash.4pT3AGPX.dpuf
Your neighbors family, they will love it here!
Cha
(297,655 posts)stop highlighting Gomez' record.
Ed Markey has real differences with Mr. Gomez on key issues, including guns, Social Security and a womans choice, Horan said.
Good Response!
thanks for more news on that, she. Now he's got his wife out there begging the Markey campaign to stop. Reminds me of Mrs mittload.
How was the last debate? And, I'm curious about this..
"Gomez is in a deep hole right now and it has more to do with lopsided campaign spending than anything else, said Joshua Dyck, co-director of the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion. Markey is just beating him up.
Have you heard what the "lopsided campaign spending" is all about?
Thanks she~
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)The lopsided spending~
Markey has more funds!
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Gomez even dissed the very man trying to bail out his losing campaign:
http://www.masslive.com/...
Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez said Monday that he couldnt care less if Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is raising money on his behalf.
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, sent out a fundraising email for Gomez on Friday, pledging a three to one match of donations, up to $32,000, made to Gomezs campaign that day.
Gomez said Monday, I didnt ask Mitch McConnell to write that email. I couldnt care less if he had written that email or not. Bottom line is Im not tied to anybody. Im not tied to any rigid ideological position. Gomez has not indicated that he would not take McConnell or other national Republicans money.
As Gabriel has not been in politics before this race he is being promoted as an outsider something that has a certain appeal for people who do not like politics. And at this point I want to emphasize that for the Latino community itself has been an outsider and that in no way he has worked with organizations and individuals in our community so that, for me, its Latin In Name Only (LINO). - Legal Insurrection, 6/3/13
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/03/1213438/-MA-Sen-Gabriel-Gomez-R-Tries-To-Distance-Himself-From-Mitch-McConnell-GOP#
Aaah Oooh!
More at the link, Cha.
Cha
(297,655 posts)he is!
my bad.. I thought "lopsided spending" meant that Gomez was spending his money on things that weren't helping his campaign. silly me. I get it Now. Markey's got more BUCKS!
Thank you mitch! back Gomez into a corner and has to yell at you.. "You're Not Helping, Mitch!!"
I'm going to read the rest at the link but I have to go some place right now..
Mahalos!
Cha
(297,655 posts)his lies and "poor victim" binge whining.. and the issues.
Oh the DEMS in Mass have that right on, she! Good on them for being relentless on their Truth Ads against Gomez!
I wonder if he knew what he was stepping into with Mass Dems, she?
I'm cracking up at the "advice" to Gomez from one Holly Robichaud..
Dont apologize for calling Markey pond scum. He deserved it for putting your picture next to Osama Bin Laden. The shoe fits.
Go after Markey for bragging about his Obamacare vote. In 2010, being against the government takeover of health care helped elect Scott Brown.
With each taxpayer owing $148,000 toward the national debt, hold Markey accountable for his zero rating with Citizens Against Government Waste. Any first-grader could find waste to cut in the federal government.
Set the record straight on the phony peoples pledge. Markey started off this campaign with $3 million in his war chest from lobbyists and PACs. His demand that you limit groups from advertising on your behalf is as phony as his Malden address.
Ask Markey to list all the taxes he has supported over the past three decades. Be prepared to start listing them. There are 271 of them.
If you have any tattoos, dont offer to show them.
Quote U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch on Markey being a liar. It will help win over blue-collar Democrats.
Ask Markey if he can define the term middle class. If Lizzy Warren is in the audience, she wont be able to give him a lifeline.
Make a joke about him inventing Google or ask him what his cable bill in Malden runs him.
When you get Markey on the ropes, finish him off. Dont let up like Mitt Romney did in his second and third debates with President Obama. - Boston Herald, 6/3/13
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)The GOP dimmest bulbs in the light sockets!
LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)Too bad politicians don't use that regarding religion.
Cha
(297,655 posts)SKP!
It is Sweet.. and the whole article, too.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)so much, ucr! It's GOTV.. but, this can only be Good News from Boston.
Markey ain't playin'!
NHDEMFORLIFE
(489 posts)Not really. They have to get the "wave of scandals" in there when reporting the President's approval rating.
Howie Carr, leader of the local branch of the lunatic fringe and Herald columnist, will no doubt lob a few more of his bombastic grenades at Markey over the weekend.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)on Tuesday!
BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)If we don't win it decisively (you know, like 55%-45%), the Rethugs will claim it's a "moral victory".
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)but no cigar
Cha
(297,655 posts)tried to bring down Pres Obama in the 2012 campaign.
Their swiftboat sank. ooops.
Now, after having appeared on national cable television news as spokesperson for OPSEC, Gomez is frantically trying to deny that he ever had anything at all to do with the group.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/09/1208015/-Gomez-furiously-tries-to-distance-himself-from-his-swift-boat-organization
Interesting.. I just googled and came up with that.
talk about ironicccc
Cha
(297,655 posts)is strong with this one.
I'm remembering how much I hated that damn feeble attempt at "swiftboating" PBO. The movie going out to theaters. And, now Mr Gomez is hating how he's been rightfully associated with it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/03/1206669/-Markey-calls-out-Gomez-for-trying-to-swiftboat-Obama-or-as-NRSC-spox-says-Markey-goes-ugly-early
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)The GOTV effort still needs to be strong. Too many voters will sit at home and say It is a done deal and not vote.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Seems the corpmedia was throwing around the caveat that Markey would be damaged by PBO..
TheObamaDiary.com @TheObamaDiary
Remember the MSM told us that President Obama's rally for Ed Markey would actually damage his hopes? Cough ---> bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/06/umass_lowell_herald_poll_ed_markey_20_points_ahead_of_gomez
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/21/rise-and-shine-533/
Check out this sequence of events from sofa king downthread..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=312350
thanks for the thread kick, she!
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Great video clip~
"I need Ed Markey in the United States Senate!"
Boston !
I love sofa king's post!
Three days and counting!!!!!!
Gomez
Markey
Cha
(297,655 posts)from some really brilliant people, she!
How to Win! Being right on the issues Check. Getting the information out on your opponent early and repeatedly. Check. It helps if you're great with people and have busted your ass for your District for 37 years! Check.
http://bluemassgroup.com/2013/06/markey-37-years-and-gomezs-dumbest-line/
Arkana
(24,347 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)For those of you who doubt the 11-dimensional chess being played by the President, let us recap the state of affairs so far. Thanks to the appointment of John Kerry as Secretary of State, President Obama has:
* Made Elizabeth Warren the senior Senator from Massachusetts, the first to be consulted in Congress on any matter pertaining to the Commonwealth, regardless of whom controls Congress;
* Placed one of the Commonwealth's most reliable and hard-working liberal Congressmen in position to be promoted to the Senate in Kerry's place;
* Safely handed off the local election mechanism for Markey's seat in the recently changed 5th District. If Markey wins, he will be able to lend powerful support to the Democratic candidate in that district; it is probably safe in the 2014 election;
* Nearly completed the transition of Massachusetts's Senate representation after a 20-year period of political stability.
Thus by appointing one Senator to a rewarding position in which he is excelling, President Obama has created two new war-horse Senators for Massachusetts, either one of whom will certainly be considered in Presidential politics from now on just as Kennedy and Kerry always were.
The balance of power in the Senate shall be further cemented in the Democratic favor on the eve of the most important mid-term elections we've had in decades.
Ed Markey has the potential to be one of the most eloquent and compelling liberal voices on the Senate floor for the next two decades, which in my opinion is the most important outcome. Let us have no surprises.
Cha
(297,655 posts)that was some awesome prognosis, from you!
So, I conclude, the next move is going to be to go after Ed Markey and beg him to consider changing wings of the Capitol. I believe Markey has refused to do this in the past, or been overlooked for other reasons. But on the surface Markey seems to me to be the best and most obvious choice.
Markey necessarily would offer coattails to his chosen successor, too, because Markey's base of operations in any statewide campaign would certainly be in his old district, where he can easily campaign with his replacement.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/21/rise-and-shine-533/
Thanks for the sequence of events leading up to what is happening in Massachusetts, right now.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)It's gratifying to be right once in a while, but for every good guess I make, I have a dozen bad ones.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)"Thus by appointing one Senator to a rewarding position in which he is excelling, President Obama has created two new war-horse Senators for Massachusetts, either one of whom will certainly be considered in Presidential politics from now on just as Kennedy and Kerry always were."
Massachusetts Strong! We will rock on Tuesday!
From Debbie Wasserman Schultz~
Gabriel Gomez has put his business experience front and center but refuses to provide answers to the questions Massachusetts voters have about that experience. He refuses to release the list of clients he worked for at Advent International. He refuses to answer simple questions about the role he played in creating jobs overseas. Massachusetts voters cant trust Gabriel Gomez because he refuses to answer these basic questions about the central premise of his candidacy.
And try as he might, Gomez cant run from the national Republican Party or the fact that he would be a rubber stamp for their extreme agenda in Washington. He prefers two sets of rules for Americans when it comes to taxes one for the wealthiest and corporations and one for the middle class. He would vote for Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. And he opposes a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines.
The choice is clear in this election. On the issues that are important to Massachusetts voters tax fairness, womens health and reducing gun violence Ed Markey is a proven leader Bay Staters can trust. He will represent their values and best interests in the United States Senate.
http://www.democrats.org/news/press/ed_markey_is_the_right_leader_for_ma_gabriel_gomez_failed_his_final_test_be
Cha
(297,655 posts)Tuesday's going to be a very awesome day.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Yes we can!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Exciting, Encouraging, and Excellent!
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Godhumor
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