MA-Harper Polling (R): Markey up double-digits

[Tender Branson]

Q: If the special election for U.S. Senator were held today, who would you vote for: Ed Markey, Democrat or Gabriel Gomez, Republican?

Markey 49%
Gomez 37%
Not sure 14%

The sample size for the survey is 498 registered voters.  The margin of error is +/-4.39%.  The Interactive Voice Response (IVR) telephone survey was conducted June 10-11, 2013 by Harper Polling on behalf of Conservative Intel.

http://conservativeintel.com/613-conservative-intel-poll-of-ma-sen

[Rocky Rockefeller]

Uh the polling for this race is all over the map it seems, I don't know what to believe

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Uh the polling for this race is all over the map it seems, I don't know what to believe

Polls in June:

New England College: Markey +12
UMass/YouGov: Markey +11
PPP: Markey +8
WBUR: Markey +7
Suffolk: Markey +8
Harper: Markey +12
Boston Globe: Markey +13

Not perfectly synchronized, but not 'all over the place'. Believing that Markey is ahead by somewhere in the high single or low double digits seems like a safe bet, albeit a depressing one.

[badgate]

I'm getting very excited to see what the final results are.