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Toplines - 2010 Massachusetts Governor Match-Ups/favs - November 23, 2009

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Massachusetts State Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted November 23, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

31% Strongly approve
24% Somewhat approve
9% Somewhat disapprove
35% Strongly disapprove
1% Not sure

2* How would you rate the job Deval Patrick has been doing as Governor… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

11% Strongly approve
23% Somewhat approve
27% Somewhat disapprove
37% Strongly disapprove
2% Not sure

3* 2010 Massachusetts Governor Race

Christy Mihos (R)

26%

Deval Patrick (D)

32%

Tim Cahill (I)

28%

Not sure

14%

Charlie Baker (R)

28%

Deval Patrick (D)

33%

Tim Cahill (I)

25%

Not sure

14%

4* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

Candidate for MA Governor Race

Very Favorable

Somewhat Favorable

Somewhat Unfavorable

Very Unfavorable

Not sure

Mihos

10%

36%

26%

10%

18%

Patrick

13%

29%

25%

31%

2%

Cahill

10%

39%

20%

8%

23%

Baker

11%

31%

21%

8%

28%

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence