Biden more popular than Gov. Healey
Yet, still time for both to rise or fall
It may interest you to know more Bay State voters like Joe Biden than Maura Healey.
Not many more, 1% is all, but slightly more Massachusetts voters view President Biden — gaffes, inflation, churning negative media machine and all — favorably than their long-serving former attorney general and landslide-elected Gov. Maura Healey, according to new polling.
“New Gov. Maura Healey is viewed more favorably (42%) than not (21%), but a sizable portion remain unfamiliar with her or undecided,” pollsters said along with a survey of nearly 1,000 Bay Staters on Thursday.
According to the same polling by The MassINC Polling Group, Biden enjoys a favorable rate of 43%.
That’s not a Chinesesurveillance balloon’s amount of space between the octogenarianin-Chief and the former point guard, but it is at least as thick as a son’s scandalous laptop.
What certainly does seem clear, according to pollsters, is a sizable negative view of Biden — 42% — which may come as a surprise in a state where he won every county in 2020 and would likely win as many in 2024, should he try.
A full 12% of voters aren’t yet sure about Biden, which is somewhat understandable, what with only five decades of political history to judge him by.
A full 15% of those asked said they’d never heard of the new governor, which seems a poor rating for someone who has won three statewide elections.
That is until you learn that former Assistant Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, now House Minority Whip, arguably the ranking congressional delegate and top Democrat from a state that only really only sends Team Blue to Washington, is known to just 45% of Massachusetts voters.
Among those who said they’d heard of her, 22% weren’t sure about the four-term Congresswoman and long-serving former state lawmaker.
What wasn’t surprising is that more than half of the respondents thought Tom Brady should retire or didn’t even care. A full 24% would take him back at Foxboro. To each their own.