MA-2012 Senate: 45% Brown (R), 40% Joe Kennedy (D) (Suffolk 4/3-5)

Suffolk University
4/3-5/11; 500 likely voters, 4.4% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
Suffolk release

Massachusetts

2012 Senate
52% Brown (R), 37% Patrick (D)
52% Brown (R), 26% Capuano (D)
51% Brown (R), 23% Murray (D)
45% Brown (R), 40% Joe Kennedy (D)
52% Brown (R), 9% Warren (D)
53% Brown (R), 26% Markey (R)
52% Brown (R), 30% Vicki Kennedy (D)

Favorable / Unfavorable
Deval Patrick: 52 / 36
Scott Brown: 58 / 22
Setti Warren: 5 / 4
Tim Murray: 31 / 16
Ed Markey: 37 / 19
Joe Kennedy: 58 / 26
Mike Capuano: 29 / 16
Barack Obama: 57 / 35
Hillary Clinton: 74 / 19
Vicki Kennedy: 42 / 22

Job Approval / Disapproval
Gov. Patrick: 48 / 40

Comments

[Rightbrainedleftwinged]

10:46 PM on 04/07/2011

I guess I'll have to hope he is seen with the Koch Bros and invites Donald Trump to campaign with him. That will take down his approval. I think Scott Brown has made a list of a small group of Republicans allowed to help campaign for him.

Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Colin Powell and Arnold Schwartzneggar. He'll have to yell at anyone more conservative than that to stump for him.

[Rightbrainedleftwinged]

06:33 PM on 04/07/2011

Scott Brown has enjoyed an extended honeymoon. I mean since nothing is getting passed the house, and the new Congress has turned our legislative branch into a horrible mess, it gives Brown and many other senators a chance to get out and reach out to their constituents.

I think Brown knows he is still popular, but anxious and is waiting to debate the budget and other issues. I think he is running away from the Tea Party and will probably only ask moderates to help campaign for him.

Joe Kennedy should run because of his name. Mass. is such a state that getting elected to office tends to be based on cronyism. I think Scott Brown is to politics what Tom Brady was to the NFL football Patriots. Both were underdogs; Brown was an obscure local politician and Tom Brady was a 7th round draft pick who nobody even heard of until he had a chance to play.

[Dave WI]

01:39 PM on 04/07/2011

Most interesting part of this poll though:

"Massachusetts health care was seen as working by 38 percent of registered voters, while just under half (49 percent) said it is not working, and 13 percent were undecided. "

Well done Mitt!

[Field Marshall]

03:53 PM on 04/07/2011

Highest health care costs per capita in the country. Can't wait for ObamaCare. Oops... sorry Ms. Schultz!

[Xenobion]

05:30 PM on 04/07/2011

Thanks Mitt Romney!

[Rightbrainedleftwinged]

10:42 PM on 04/07/2011

But it also has a higher cost of living. Boston is one of the most expensive areas in the world. Everything is more expensive, including health costs.

[sportsman885]

05:31 AM on 04/08/2011

Other polls contradict that finding...might be how the question was asked? I'm not sure...

[Dave WI]

01:28 PM on 04/07/2011

I guess Capuano is just going to have get a little bloody in the street.