Conducted for WBUR by

WBUR Poll
MA-6
th
Congressional District General Election
Field Dates September 22-24, 2014

I'm going to read you the names of several people who are active in public affairs. After I read each
one please tell me if you have a generally favorable or generally unfavorable view of the person. If
you have never heard of the person or if you are undecided, please just say so. READ FIRST NAME.
How about READ NEXT NAME?

REPEAT QUESTION TEXT ONLY IF NECESSARY, PROBE IF RESPONDENT SAYS DONT KNOW.
Have you heard of READ NAME and are undecided about (him/her)? Or PAUSE have you never
heard of (him/her)? Order rotated.

Order rotated. Favorable Unfavorable
Heard of /
Undecided
Never
heard of Refused
Charlie Baker 55% 17% 24% 3% 1%
Martha Coakley 42% 44% 11% 1% 1%
Richard Tisei 42% 19% 27% 10% 2%
Seth Moulton 42% 10% 29% 17% 1%


If the election for Governor of Massachusetts were held today, and if the candidates were for
Democrat Martha Coakley, Republican Charlie Baker, independent Evan Falchuk, independent Jeff
McCormick, and independent Scott Lively for whom would you vote? Candidate order rotated.

Martha Coakley 34%
Charlie Baker 47%
Evan Falchuk <1%
Jeff McCormick 1%
Scott Lively <1%
Some other candidate (not read) <1%
Would not vote (not read) 1%
Dont Know / Refused 16%





WBUR Poll 2
Conducted by The MassINC Polling Group
If the election for U.S. Congress were held today, and the candidates were Democrat Seth Moulton
and Republican Richard Tisei, for whom would you vote? Candidate order rotated.

If undecided ask... Even though you say you are undecided -- which way are you leaning as of today
Democrat Seth Moulton and Republican Richard Tisei, for whom would you vote?

Initial preference (without leaners)
Richard Tisei 36%
Seth Moulton 42%
Some other candidate (not read) <1%
Would not vote (not read) 1%
Dont Know / Refused 20%

Vote preference with leaners
Richard Tisei 39%
Seth Moulton 47%
Some other candidate (not read) 1%
Would not vote (not read) 1%
Dont Know / Refused 13%


In the race between Richard Tisei and Seth Moulton, which is closer to your point of view? Order
rotated.

One of the candidates is far better than the
other
44%
Either candidate would make a good
Congressman
33%
Both / neither / depends (not read) 7%
Dont Know / Refused 16%


Id like to read you some issues or characteristics that people might consider when they chose for
whom to vote for U.S. Congress and ask you to compare the candidates. For each one, please tell me
whether it better describes Democrat Seth Moulton, Republican Richard Tisei, or both of them
equally. Candidate order rotated.

Order rotated.
Seth
Moulton
Richard
Tisei
Both
equally
Neither of
them
Dont
Know /
Refused
Will stand up for regular people
when in Congress
33% 21% 23% 5% 18%
Shares your values 32% 22% 22% 5% 19%
Agrees with you on national security
issues
27% 20% 18% 7% 27%
Seems to be running a positive
campaign
24% 14% 39% 5% 19%
Agrees with you on key issues that
matter to you
32% 26% 18% 5% 19%

WBUR Poll 3
Conducted by The MassINC Polling Group
Do you approve or disapprove of the health care law passed by Barack Obama and Congress in 2010?

Approve 39%
Disapprove 53%
Dont Know / Refused 8%




WBUR Poll 4
Conducted by The MassINC Polling Group
Demographics

Race
White / Caucasian 85%
All others 10%
Dont Know / Refused 6%


Age

18 to 29 10%
30 to 44 26%
45 to 59 33%
60+ 31%


Gender

Male 48%
Female 52%


Party Registration

Democrat 29%
Republican 14%
Independent / Unenrolled 57%
















About the Poll
These results are based on a survey of 400 likely voters in the November 2014 Massachusetts 6
th

Congressional District general election. The survey was conducted September 22-24, 2014. Live
telephone interviews were conducted via both landline and cell phone using conventional
registration based sampling procedures. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 4.9
percent with a 95 percent level of confidence. The poll was sponsored by WBUR, a National Public
Radio station in the Boston area.