Steve Koczela
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Mass. poll indicates popularity of Democratic leaders sagging
POLL NUMBERS for key Democratic leaders are sagging between apathy and anonymity, according to a new poll of Massachusetts voters by the MassINC Polling Group. Favorability and reelection numbers are tepid at best. Just 43 percent of registered voters hold favorable views of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (38 percent unfavorable). For newly elected Gov. Maura Healey,(...) → Read More
COVID-19, A Compound Crisis For Many In Massachusetts
For many towns, neighborhoods and families in Massachusetts, health problems and economic problems arrive as a pair -- dragging mental health, food insecurity, and other issues behind. → Read More
Parents divided over the coming school year
PARENTS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS are sharply divided along racial lines on how they want the next school year to unfold and whether schools have the ability to operate safely, according to a new poll by the MassINC Polling Group. The questions on reopening were part of a larger statewide survey sponsored by The Barr Foundation and(...) → Read More
5 Takeaways From The 2020 Massachusetts Primary
Late deciding voters broke for Biden, while the list of disappointing election results for Massachusetts presidential candidates grew even longer. → Read More
N.H. Voters Want Candidates To Talk Issues, Not Impeachment, Poll Finds
Voters say they want candidates to talk about issues. Candidates are happy to oblige, once Trump impeachment will let them back on the trail. → Read More
Polling, like everything else, is moving online
HE’S NOT EVEN officially running, but we now have two polls showing Rep. Joe Kennedy III with a sizable lead over Sen. Ed Markey in the Democratic primary for US Senate. The first, from Change Research, showed Kennedy with an eye-popping 17 point lead. That margin raised questions about how seriously to take an online(...) → Read More
Who’s looking at a Markey-Kennedy race?
AN ENIGMATIC TELEPHONE SURVEY raised eyebrows among the Massachusetts political establishment this week. The poll, first reported by POLITICO Massachusetts, pitted Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy III against incumbent Senator Ed Markey in a hypothetical 2020 Democratic primary. The survey raised the specter of a race between the longest serving member of the state congressional delegation… → Read More
Keeping politics in check
I’M AT CARRIE NATION, a prohibition-era themed Beacon Hill bar just down the street from the Massachusetts State House. On an island of tables floating between a legislative fundraiser in the front room and a bar full of power drinks after work, there are eight chess games underway. The room is noisy with friendly conversation(...) → Read More
Bill Would Ban Youth Tackle Football In Mass. Polling Shows Voters May Support It
A 2018 WBUR poll found most voters in the state think youth and high school tackle football is unsafe. → Read More
Shutdown sending Trump poll numbers down
“IF WE DON’T GET what we want … I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck.” That, of course, was President Donald Trump in an unexpectedly televised Oval Office confrontation with now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. No one but Donald Trump knows for certain why(...) → Read More
CommonWealth Magazine
THE LATEST CENSUS population figures are out, and Massachusetts is keeping pace with national population growth. The state’s population grew to nearly 7 million people at a rate of 0.6 percent between July 2017 and July 2018. That’s the same rate as the nation as a whole. It’s also the fastest rate of growth in(...) → Read More
For GOP, is the lesson be more like Charlie?
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS suffered yet another electoral drubbing last week. Apart from Gov. Charlie Baker, every Republican candidate for statewide office got trounced by 24 to 46 point margins, based on unofficial returns. None of the congressional races were even remotely competitive. The legislative caucus shed three more members, further reducing their already paltry numbers. Republican(...) → Read More
Baker shows a Republican can do well in cities
ON HIS WAY to a landslide victory this week, Charlie Baker did something unusual for a Republican these days. He won urban areas, pulling 55 percent in the state’s 20 largest cities and towns, according to unofficial returns from the AP. This is not normal fare for our politics here in Massachusetts, or really anywhere(...) → Read More
Charlie Baker and the incredible vanishing gender gap
Charlie Baker has bridged the gender gap. Nationally, Democratic women are fleeing the Republican party, threatening to swing a host of offices to Democrats, while men still tilt right. But women here in Massachusetts prefer Baker over Democrat Jay Gonzalez by about the same margins as do male voters. This was by no means expected.(...) → Read More
The Duel Over Diehl
The big moment in this week’s gubernatorial debate between Governor Charlie Baker and his Democratic opponent Jay Gonzalez was not about being governor at all. It came down to a duel over the Republican candidate for Senate, Geoff Diehl. Diehl was the Massachusetts co-chair for Trump’s presidential campaign, and has closely aligned himself with the(...) → Read More
Ballot Q On Transgender Protections Law May Be Confusing. But Voters Seem To Get It
In most ballot questions, voting 'yes' means making a change to some kind to state law, while voting 'no' means preserving the status quo. Question 3 is the reverse. A WBUR poll sought to figure out if voters are confused. → Read More
Surprise! Mass. Dems don’t want to abolish ICE
FOLLOW TWITTER TRENDS and cable news discussion, and you’d think the Democratic base was all-in on the idea of abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Indeed, even national polling seemed to show Democrats headed in that direction, with a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll finding Democrats support abolishing ICE (43 percent) over keeping it (34 percent). Trump(...) → Read More
In 7th District, Democrats Want More Standing Up To Trump
The question facing Democrats is whether escalation is better electoral politics than issues and policy. → Read More
Younger Democrats Seem To Be Angling For A Changing Of The Guard
Among likely Democratic primary voters in the 7th district, just one-third of poll respondents said they think the party should again choose Nancy Pelosi as speaker, if Democrats win the House. → Read More
Baker Veto Threat Targets Popular Toll Discount Program
Polling shows most voters in the state support off-peak toll discounts. → Read More