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It looks like the good people of Rhode Island are feeling no love for Patches Kennedy. Soaring unfavorability ratings and plummeting approval ratings add up to a loss in 2010. If we're all lucky 2010 will see no Kennedys in Congress for the first time in nearly 60 years, a prospect that has the Kennedy clan quite concerned (and emptying the liquor cabinet). Let us pray.
LOL, no he isn't. Patrick's #'s have never been all that high, but he has always gotten re-elected. Not to mention some of the somebody else is likely some other Democrat. Lets see how Kennedy polls against other Republicans and then get back to me.
The WPRI-12 poll showed the Rhode Island Democrat with a 56 percent unfavorability rating in his district - a negative that grows to 62 percent statewide.
Only 35 percent of voters in Kennedy’s district said they would vote to re-elect him. Another 31 percent said they’d consider a different candidate and 28 percent said they would vote to replace him, according to the poll.
A poll of him vs anybody in the world isn't enough to convince me he is vulnerable. It's easy to say you will consider another candidate, but many of those people will still likely side with Kennedy because any other candidate is only human as well. At the same time though, I also would not rule out another Scott Brown-like upset if Loughlin is a strong candidate. There's a lot that goes down before November, I mean Brown pulled ahead of Coakley from trailing her in the double digits all in less than a month. Scott Brown's victory also was aided largely from out of state donors who were all focused on the special election. This will not be the case in November when everyone is focused on their own elections at home. Either way, it's good too see a revival of the New England brand of Republican. If the GOP capitalizes on the popularity of moderate republicans in blue districts/states, they probably could retake congress or come pretty close. That was the strategy Dems used to gain power in 2006
It looks like the good people of Rhode Island are feeling no love for Patches Kennedy. Soaring unfavorability ratings and plummeting approval ratings add up to a loss in 2010. If we're all lucky 2010 will see no Kennedys in Congress for the first time in nearly 60 years, a prospect that has the Kennedy clan quite concerned (and emptying the liquor cabinet). Let us pray.
So far I don't have a high opinion on the Kennedy's other than that they were always willing to serve the public in politics, but mostly to serve their own ego....
If a Kennedy would come in years who has good credentials, a clean sheet, etc...I wouldn't mind if we would get a new Kennedy, but so far it has been drugs, sex, DUI's, etc... not something to be very proud off....
A poll of him vs anybody in the world isn't enough to convince me he is vulnerable. It's easy to say you will consider another candidate, but many of those people will still likely side with Kennedy because any other candidate is only human as well. At the same time though, I also would not rule out another Scott Brown-like upset if Loughlin is a strong candidate. There's a lot that goes down before November, I mean Brown pulled ahead of Coakley from trailing her in the double digits all in less than a month. Scott Brown's victory also was aided largely from out of state donors who were all focused on the special election. This will not be the case in November when everyone is focused on their own elections at home. Either way, it's good too see a revival of the New England brand of Republican. If the GOP capitalizes on the popularity of moderate republicans in blue districts/states, they probably could retake congress or come pretty close. That was the strategy Dems used to gain power in 2006
I don't feel the good people of my Home State, would elect Kennedy just because of who he is. Like in Mass, the good people have plainly had enough, regardless of the State they live in. We need someone who has a clear vision, of how, to get this economy going, and not talk about it, but actually do it. Fix our job losses, and this downhill housing market. People are just now focused on our economy, and seeing to it, that it get's better. There was so much talk, during Obama's many campaign speeches, of a prosperous and growing economy, if he were to be elected, i yet to see this happen on his watch.
A poll of him vs anybody in the world isn't enough to convince me he is vulnerable. It's easy to say you will consider another candidate, but many of those people will still likely side with Kennedy because any other candidate is only human as well. At the same time though, I also would not rule out another Scott Brown-like upset if Loughlin is a strong candidate. There's a lot that goes down before November, I mean Brown pulled ahead of Coakley from trailing her in the double digits all in less than a month. Scott Brown's victory also was aided largely from out of state donors who were all focused on the special election. This will not be the case in November when everyone is focused on their own elections at home. Either way, it's good too see a revival of the New England brand of Republican. If the GOP capitalizes on the popularity of moderate republicans in blue districts/states, they probably could retake congress or come pretty close. That was the strategy Dems used to gain power in 2006
Tell that to my Rhode Island Relatives. And there is a lot of them. They are not voting for him, they don't like him. They want any one new. They don't think he has really helped the State that much at all. Talked to my Aunt tonight, she said, he's got to go.
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