Deval Patrick Faces a Tough Better For the 2010 Mass. Gov. Elections

The people have spoken and Gov. Deval Patrick (Dem.) is reporting a disapproval rate of 52% according to Frank Phillips and Matt Viser with the Boston Globe. Such disapproval rates begs the question, Will Patrick’s overt support of the gay and lesbian community be his downfall in the 2010 elections?

If Patrick does end up losing this election he may cast the blame on a bad economy that has soured voters opinion towards him. Unemployment rates seem to be one of the main concerns that many people in the surrounding area have. Even with a 52% disapproval rate Patrick is still going to be the likely winner of this next election according to pre-election polls.

What’s surprising about recent public opinion is that’s Patrick’s overwhelmingly sway of the popular opinion has greatly dwindled into a barely surviving stack of coal.

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill (Independent) is slowly but surely gaining ground against Patrick. According to Globe statistics, “Patrick won support from 30 percent of those surveyed, with Cahill getting 23 percent and Baker 19 percent….Democrats were the only group that gave him (Patrick) a majority approval rating, 58 percent. Among independents, 56 percent gave him a poor job rating.”

In that same poll 72% of those surveyed say that they have not yet made a decision on which way the vote will be cast.

Patrick needs to improve public opinion about how he is handling our current fiscal crisis if he is to win back the support he held three years ago. Running as a Democrat could very well tip the scales in Patrick’s favor considering that Boston has experienced many foreclosed homes.

The Globe’s poll is anything but set at this point. Baker the State’s Republican favorite has generated almost 3 times ($2.3 Million) as much campaign money as Patrick ($1.85 Million).

Whether or not Baker wins one thing is for sure; this no-name Republican candidate is definitely going to make himself known.

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