One poll is just one poll, our inner Nate Silver should remind us, but Republican candidate Charlie Baker now appears to have a solid lead over his Democratic opponent in the Massachusetts governor’s race: He’s up by nine points on attorney general Martha Coakley in the latest poll from the Boston Globe. He was tied in last week’s survey by the paper; in another weekly poll released earlier this week, he’s also moved ahead.
Baker, a former state cabinet member under Governors Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci and later a health-insurance executive, is now leading Coakley by 4.5 points in the Real Clear Politics average of polls.
Coakley is attending a fundraiser today in Boston with Hillary Clinton, Governor Deval Patrick (the relatively popular chief executive who beat Baker in 2010) and Senator Elizabeth Warren. In the great tradition of the Boston Garden and Fenway Park, the press have been given superb obstructed-view seating:
My view of the stage at Coakley/Clinton #wtf pic.twitter.com/8TmXK6y3Uh
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 24, 2014