Warren Up in Polls, Herald Endorses Brown: Who's Winning?
With Warren holding a small lead in the polls, and Brown getting a key endorsement from the Boston Herald, who do you think has the momentum coming into the final days of the election? Tell us in the comments section below.
Democrat Elizabeth Warren is up by five points over incumbent Republican Scott Brown in the latest WBUR/MassINC poll of the Massachusetts senate race. That's a near-total reversal of the BUR poll last month, which had Brown up by four on Oct. 9. In fact, Warren has been trending upwards in most recent polling. The New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog has Warren up by four in an average of recent polls. The blog, which uses advanced statistical modeling akin to baseball sabermetrics (think Moneyball) gives Warren an 89 percent chance of winning the election. But Brown's got some significant energy on his side as well. He's been barnstorming the state with political luminaries like Senator John McCain and today won the Boston herald's …
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Craig Foster
8:45 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012
I can't see that. I think if he loses this election it will prove that his election was somewhat of a fluke of being a special election where overall voter turnout was down. I saw one stat about the special election that pretty much sums it up. Scott Brown got basically the same number of votes in the Special Election that McCain did it the 2008 presidential election. Which tells me he did a … more ›