Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a small lead over Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) in a recent WBUR poll of Massachusetts voters. Ms. Warren garnered 46 percent of the votes and Mr. Brown pulled in 43 percent of the votes.
Steve Koczela, who conducted the poll for WBUR, said that Ms. Warren deserves credit for her campaign’s success. “She’s gotten her name out there. Now many more people have a view of her and she’s translated that into higher support than she had before,” Mr. Koczela posited, according to WBUR.
Ms. Warren “really came out of the gate fast and there was some question as to whether or not she was going to be able to maintain the momentum that she started out with,” Mr. Koczela said. “And what this poll has shown is that she has been able to maintain that momentum,” the pollster added.
Although Ms. Warren leads Mr. Brown in the WBUR poll, there are a few warnings signs for the Harvard Law School professor’s campaign team. The WBUR poll reveals that Mr. Brown is very popular among Massachusetts voters. The Massachusetts Republican earned a 50 percent favorability rating, while Ms. Warren garnered a 39 percent favorability rating. In addition, 14 percent of Massachusetts voters have not heard of Ms. Warren versus 6 percent for Mr. Brown.
Back in January, Ms. Warren and Mr. Brown made a pact against Super PACs. The two candidates for the Massachusetts Senate seat made a pact to dissuade Super PACs from running ads in the Massachusetts media. If a Super PAC runs an attack ad, the targeted candidate will select a charity to which the other candidate will donate a sum of money equal to the cost of the ad.
MassINC, which conducted the poll for WBUR, surveyed 503 likely Massachusetts voters from February 6th through February 9th. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
