The latest Suffolk University poll on the MA gubernatorial contest shows GRP candidate Jill Stein at 8%, a five point surge despite the media largely shutting her out. The winner of one or both (depending on how you look at it) of the 2002 gubernatorial debates the establishment press allowed her into, this is a very significant indication that Jill is positioned to break the governor’s race wide open.

Tim Cahill’s plummeting numbers show that the Republican Governors Association ad campaign has destroyed his support. Their pick, Charlie Baker, will have a very hard time getting out from under his ownership of two of the most rage-inducing plights facing ordinary Massachusetts voters — skyrocketing healthcare costs at the hands of greedy private insurance companies and the short-sighted debt restructuring of Big Dig finances. Meanwhile Governor Patrick’s unfavorable ratings are higher than his favorable ratings (46% to 45%), by 52% to 36%, MA voters think the state is heading in the wrong direction, and by 55% to 33%, they don’t think he deserves reelection and would like to give someone else a chance.

All bets are off, folks. The voters are screaming for a revolt, and they don’t like the choices they’ve been given. Stein’s 7% favorable, 7% unfavorable, and 60% never-heard-of numbers show that as she gains more exposure, her poll numbers will surge even higher.

She’s the right candidate with the right message at the right moment.

Read on for the Stein campaign’s press release!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 26, 2010 Jill Stein for Governor

www.jillstein.org

Contact: Daryl Sprague, Campaign Manager, 617-459-0784

OUTSIDER CANDIDATE STEIN SENSES BREAKTHROUGH IN LATEST POLL

   BOSTON (May 26, 2010) –  The campaign of Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein welcomed signs of a breakthrough in the recently released Suffolk University poll of likely Massachusetts voters.  Stein’s total of 8% more than doubled her total in the previous Suffolk poll.

“Our campaign for real change is resonating,” Stein observed after inspecting the poll results.  “People have had enough bailouts, layoffs, skyrocketing health care costs, Beacon Hill scandals and cuts to schools and public safety. They’ve had enough of insiders who continue to lavish favors on the well connected few. People are ready for a new way forward – towards transparent, accountable government, and a healthy, secure green future. The enthusiasm we are encountering at meetings and house parties is incredible.  We’re getting support from concerned citizens across the political spectrum who’ve been marginalized and frozen out by the Beacon Hill establishment.”

   Stein’s campaign manager, Daryl Sprague, who was Barack Obama’s 2008 deputy director for Western States, noted “There’s a real hunger out there for someone who is going to shake up the establishment, and voters sense that Jill is the real thing.  She’s benefiting from the fact that she’s the only candidate who is refusing to take money from the insiders, who has leveled with voters on her tax forms, and who is taking the side of the people instead of going along with the big lobbying interests. All this is beginning to add up in the minds of the voters who know we need a change in direction.”

Stein added that “Our job now is to break through the media blackout to let voters know that that they have a real alternative to the three Beacon Hill insiders.  We’ve seen major newspapers print article after article about ‘the three main candidates’ and fail to even mention our name.  So over 60% of the voters don’t yet know anything about us.  Our poll numbers should rise as we become better known.   Voters are hungry for a candidate who’s not owned by lobbyists or political machines.  And we’re their one opportunity to get the big money out, get the people back in, and put Beacon Hill back to work for the families and communities of the Commonwealth.”