Despite Scott Browns and the Boston Media Obsession with Elizabeth Warrens bloodline she is within 2 points of him in a new Boston Globe poll, and even better she is leading him by 2 in another.
First, The Boston Globe:
Despite a five-week drubbing over her claims to Native American heritage, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren remains neck and neck with US Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, as she heads into Saturday’s state party convention, a new Globe poll shows....the bottom line is that the race remains a toss-up, with Brown leading Warren 39 percent to 37 percent, largely unchanged from the Globe’s March poll that also showed Brown leading by two percentage points.
The Globe Poll has a lot of undecideds, and shows Obama leading Romney 46 to 34. 72 percent do not care about her heritage but her negatives have ticked up.
There's even better news in a new Masslive/WNEU poll:
The survey of 504 registered voters from across the Bay State concluded that Warren's overall support is slightly stronger with 45 percent saying they would vote for the Harvard Law School professor compared to 43 percent for the Republican incumbent. This is a significant change from the previous university poll conducted between Feb. 23 and March 1 where Brown led Warren 49 percent to 41 percent.
Warren has been able to make gains even in the face of the obsessive reporting on an issue few care about.
According to the new survey, Warren has consolidated her base as she leads Brown 84 percent to 10 percent among voters who identify themselves as Democrats, compared to a margin of 70 percent to 22 percent in the last survey.
The consumer advocate has also cut significantly into Brown's lead among independents, trailing Brown 50 percent to 37 percent, a margin of 13 percent compared to 29 percent in the previous poll.
The gender gap also has grown significantly in the latest survey, according to Vercellotti.
Warren leads Brown 52 percent to 37 percent among women, compared to a four-point lead in the Feb. 23 – March 1 poll. Brown leads Warren by a margin of 50 percent to 38 percent among men, compared to a 56 percent to 35 percent advantage in the last survey.
It gets hard to stay upbeat when you have all the major media here getting in on this ridiculous story but Warren has a compelling case to make and Scott Brown, though liked as an individual is part of a party that is very unpopular here and he has no depth as a candidate. These polls may spell the end of this non story.