Governor Deval Patrick’s top campaign advisor Doug Rubin sent an email yesterday in response to the release of the Globe poll that showed the Governor with severe slippage in his numbers. Rubin pointed to several factors that he feels have contributed to the less than stellar numbers. From the Rubin email:
The Environment: We are in the midst of a national economic crisis, and governors across the country are feeling the impact of leading their states through these challenging times. Many people are struggling in this economy, and it is natural for them to ask more of their leaders. Governor Patrick’s poll numbers are consistent or better than most other governors’, both Republican and Democrat.
Challenging the Status Quo: Governor Patrick has taken on many entrenched interests on behalf of the people of Massachusetts, pushing for major reforms in pension laws, ethics, transportation, civilian flaggers, and charter schools. These successes will have a positive long-term impact for our state, but bring with them short-term political consequences.
Timing: We are in the midst of difficult economic times, the three challengers are relatively unknown, and the Governor has been making the tough decisions. We need to deliver a budget that is balanced, on-time, and keeps our leadership in education in tact. Yet, the Governor still stays strong in an hypothetical 3-way campaign in the Boston Globe poll.
The Campaign: There will be plenty of time to focus on the campaign. Right now, the Governor understands that people are struggling in this economy, and he remains focused on helping them by creating jobs, keeping our commitment to education and health care reform, and reforming the way Beacon Hill does our business. When the time comes for the campaign, the Governor looks forward to talking about the specific actions he has taken to benefit the people of MA and put our state on the road to recovery. These include creating good-paying jobs in growing industries like life sciences, bio-tech, and clean energy, cutting auto insurance rates for consumers, cutting costs through reforms like civilian flaggers, and closing a $5 billion budget gap while keeping our commitment to public education and affordable health care.
Bill Manzi.com 
Doug Rubin is lying about the poll numbers of other governors.
I found poll numbers on 23 total governors including Deval Patrick. Of those 5 had the same or lower numbers than Patrick, one had a point higher approval rating, and 17 had significantly higher ratings. If the first paragraph of the talking points are a lie, can the rest be true?
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Your Honor,
As I remember things Deval Patric usually showed up as an afterthought, generally after his lack of attention to an issue.
He never impressed me as an effective manager.
Please note: when any politician sends in a ‘spokesman’ you get obvious excuses.
Deval Patrick deserves the loss of confidense.
By the way, have the savings from work details exceeded $12,500 yet?.
Jules
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Robert:
I am slightly confused by your statement. When I follow your link, you complain about the Globe’s polling methodology, which is random adults and not likely voters, but then you quote SurveyUSA, which seems to use a random phone number methodology? Am I reading this correctly?
If you’re saying that Patrick is an unpopular Governor at this point, then I believe you. If you say that Doug Rubin is lying, I think you need more work to prove it.
I’m sure you know that when you compare poll numbers, you should do apples to apples comparisons, because anyone can lie with statistics.
-FM
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Your Honor,
Robert Eno got his good news from the Red Mass group. I checked the Blue Mass group, just to be fair, and they had long rambling essay trying, unsuccessfully,to moderate the Governors issues. Can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
Jules
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Your Honor,
Has Governor Patrick required the private flagmen get almost $40 per hour.
Jules
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FYI, Jules, If you go down to teh bottom of RedMassGroup you will see that i am the Owner and operator of the site. I am the EaBo Clipper as well, it’s my nom de keyboard
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