New York Adult Entertainment: Obama’s Bay State Problem
Patrick’s popularity, like Obama’s, is plunging. He’s running for a second term in 2010, but a Boston Globe poll this summer found that only 23% of the voters trust Patrick’s handling of the state’s economic problems. A poll of 400 likely voters by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School in Boston found that 47% of them believe that ethics have worsened in state government over the past 10 years. Asked to rate the level of ethics, 2% said they were excellent; 10% said they were good; 49%, fair; and 40% said they were poor.
This is extraordinary. Massachusetts voters are strongly Democratic and historically very forgiving. The legislature has 179 Democrats and 21 Republicans. Sen. Ted Kennedy kept being reelected despite his legendary foibles, and Rep. Barney Frank miraculously survived a scandal involving a male prostitute.
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