Using the words “poll” and “scientifcally” in the same sentence is an insult to scientists everywhere.

Polling is an art form, and there’s no reason to think that John Zogby’s online poll is any less predictive than more traditional methods.

I’ll try to post a more detailed comment on my blog over the next few days. In the meantime, thanks for your comment. There’s no question in my mind that the media blitz next week will be the beginning of a huge upswing in the DP perambulation to the Statehouse.

Patrick has been doing things in the right order, in a purposeful way. He first went to the Party insiders and to activist groups such as PDM to gauge his support amongst the opinion-leaders in the state. Having been satisfied that there was a core of enthusiasm there that he could tap into, he then began to solicit opinions from academics, public advocacy groups, and other experts, in order to help him build solid position papers.

DP’s policy papers have now been released on three major topics: jobs, healthcare, and education (the last of these was put out just yesterday).

Deval is now in good position to travel the state to publicize these positions on key issues, and will make his first barnstorming tour the week of October 17. We’ll see those “don’t know” numbers begin to fall like a rock.

We’re still four months away from the Dem Party caucuses to select delegates for the nominating convention. As a DP supporter, I can only hope the AG’s camp gets lulled into a false sense on complacency.

See my post at http://www.mfw.us/goodnews-from-zogby in which I state in which I state my opinion that the fact that “Patrick trails the AG by only 4 percentage points is pretty amazing given that the campaign is barely underway yet, and ‘Deval Patrick’ is hardly a household name in the Bay State, at least as of yet. More importantly, this undercuts the asinine ‘electability’ issue that Patrick’s opponents love to bring up.”