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My thoughts, fwiw, on the PPP poll just out:
• Where did PPP come up with their matchups? The Dem primary in CD2 and the GOP primary in CD1 are wide open.
• Despite ceaseless false attacks from GOP activists, a hostile Union Leader, a swing district that is getting increasingly difficult due to Bay State Republicans who, fooled by Pledge Politics, move up north, a candidate who doesn't take business PAC money, and an electoral cycle that tradition holds should favor the minority party, we have a real chance of keeping in office one of the finest and most genuine public servants.
If you had asked me before the poll what our chances were, you would not have liked my answer.
• I've said this before, but the poll confirms it. Due to the open seat race and the fact that a former six-termer is running in it, Charlie Bass is the de facto incumbent in this race. Therefore it is critical to remind folks of his dismal record in congress and why we voted him out in the first place.
• Swett's numbers are not good. That said, it is difficult to extrapolate on that without PPP having polled Kuster or DeJoie. I personally think that the average, non-politically obsessed, polled likely voter doesn't know or care about Swett's past with Lieberman campaign, or even why that would today be perceived as a negative in a Democratic primary. So I don't know what's going on.
• Name recognition matters.
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