Looks like Scott Brown's (R. NH/MA) continues to show it's a bust:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/...
New Hampshire US Senator Jeanne Shaheen leads challenger Scott Brown by 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent with 9 percent undecided, according to a new poll released today.
The Suffolk University/Boston Herald survey found Brown comfortably ahead in his GOP US Senate primary, but trailing the Democrat he hopes to unseat.
Respondents see Shaheen more favorably than Brown. Fifty-two percent of those polled said they have a favorable opinion of Shaheen, a former governor first elected to the US Senate in 2008, while 36 percent have an unfavorable view of her.
Thirty-five percent have a favorable opinion of Brown, the former Massachusetts US Senator who moved his primary residence to the Granite State last year. Forty-six percent of respondents have an unfavorable view of Brown.
“Scott Brown’s unfavorable number is dangerously high,” David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said in a statement.
Brown has, however, appeared to close the gap a little with Shaheen in recent months. The Democrat had a 13 point lead in a March poll from Suffolk.
Meanwhile in a Republican primary matchup, Brown leads his next closest rival, former US Senator Bob Smith, by more than 28 percentage points.
The New Hampshire primary is set for Sept. 9. The general election is Nov. 4. - Boston Globe, 6/19/14
Here's a little more info:
http://blogs.wsj.com/...
For Mr. Obama, those numbers in the latest Suffolk poll are 45% favorable and 49% unfavorable – even though his job approval rating in the state is just 39% — below the 41% he received nationally in the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday. Ms. Shaheen rates 52% favorable and 37% unfavorable, Suffolk found.
The numbers are the latest evidence that the New Hampshire Senate race, despite Mr. Brown’s high-profile entrance, may not be among the top-tier contests this fall.
Ms. Shaheen, while still well ahead of Mr. Brown, is down slightly from Suffolk’s March poll, which was conducted before Mr. Brown declared his candidacy. She’s lost six percentage points from her favorability rating and three percentage points of her lead.
Still, the incumbent holds a commanding advantage.
Suffolk’s poll also found New Hampshire voters are nostalgic about 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney – or at least that they would like to see him run again. Nearly a quarter of New Hampshire voters said they’d vote for Mr. Romney when read a list of 13 possible GOP candidates. No other candidate received double-digit support in Suffolk’s poll.
With Mr. Romney not in the mix, the poll found a jumbled field, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) both receiving 11% support. Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) took only 5% support, but is the second choice of 13% of New Hampshire voters, Suffolk’s poll found.
Suffolk conducted its poll of 800 New Hampshire residents from June 14 – June 18, with a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points. - Wall Street Journal, 6/19/14
Brown looks like he's going to win his primary but his attacks on the ACA aren't really helping him in the general:
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Brown carried a strong lead heading into the September Republican primary, with the support of 40 percent of likely primary voters polled from Sunday to Wednesday, well ahead of second-place Bob Smith, who had 12 percent support.
Smith is a conservative Republican who is seeking to reclaim the U.S. Senate seat he held from 1990 to 2003.
Brown was to appear in his first televised debate with Republican rivals over the weekend.
Brown was a little-known Massachusetts state legislator when he stunned that state's Democratic establishment in 2010 by defeating Attorney General Martha Coakley to win the U.S. Senate seat Kennedy had held for a half-century.
But he lost to Democrat Elizabeth Warren in his first re-election bid in 2012 and late last year moved back to his native New Hampshire, which borders Massachusetts, to prepare for a Senate run.
He has focused his campaign on attacking U.S. President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law and trying to tie Shaheen to the administration. Shaheen has sought to portray Brown as detached from the needs of the largely rural state and too closely tied to powerful business interests.
The poll also showed New Hampshire voters narrowly disliking the law, known as Obamacare, with 48 percent viewing the law unfavorably compared with 42 percent who viewed it favorably.
The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. - Yahoo News, 6/19/14
Of course with over four months until election time, the Kochs and Karl Rove will continue to spend big to help prop up Brown so we need to be ready. Click here to donate and get involved with Shaheen's campaign:
http://jeanneshaheen.org/