Scott Brown Leads Elizabeth Warren In New Massachusetts Poll

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8. I welcome this poll. If we are lucky, it will be a wake up call from many dems

in and out of state that MA is not a liberal forum, but has a lot of independents that need to be won.

At this point, the Warren campaign's focus has been to speak to friends, democratic activists, democratic supporters who will campaign for her, and who will give her money: All important things in this race, particularly after Warren and Brown signed this agreement that prevents third party PACs from putting out ads showing Brown's negatives (there would already be a couple ads attacking Brown for supporting Blunt otherwise).

What is concerning both in the Massinc and Suffolk Poll is not so much the horse race numbers (way too early for that), but the favs/unfavs and internals in the Massinc poll that show she has not established herself as the middle class candidate (even though it is the only issue she has been campaigning on), while Brown stays very popular and seen as a moderate Republican.

There is no reason to start panicking (way too early), but it is important for her supporters to stop looking through pink lenses and to understand she must be present on the field, and talk to people that are not Democratic supporters. It is clear she will be the nominee. She has to be the winner and in a state where there are more than 50% independents, she must win the independents.