Hmmm. Intriguing guy to go up against Deval Patrick in Massachusetts:

The Massachusetts governor’s race is more than a year away, but it’s heating up fast, with the head of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care now saying he’s going to resign his post there and toss his hat in the ring as a Republican.
Charlie Baker, 52, a former official in the Weld administration and the current president and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, will join Christy Mihos as a GOP candidate trying to unseat Democratic incumbent Gov. Deval Patrick.

Patrick looks supremely vulnerable more than a year out: The Rasmussen/FOX 25 poll released Monday, which surveyed 500 voters, found 41 percent would vote for Mihos and 40 percent for Patrick. The poll also pits Patrick against Charlie Baker, who scored 36 percent to Patrick’s 41.

Deval Patrick’s disapproval rating is a mere 57 percent.