New poll: Warren opens up a lead in Massachusetts

By Richard K. Barry

Public Policy Polling (PPP) has a new survey out showing Elizabeth Warren (D) leading Sen. Scott Brown (R) in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts by six points, 50% to 44%.

According to PPP:

The big change over the last month is that Brown's image is finally starting to take a hit. His approval rating is now a +7 spread at 49/42, down a net 14 points from mid-September when he was at 55/34. There's an increasing sense that he's been more a partisan voice for the national Republican Party (45%) than an independent voice for Massachusetts (44%). That's a 10 point shift from our last poll when voters thought 49/40 that he'd been more of an independent voice.

The biggest thing that continues to make it very hard for Brown to win this race is that 52% of voters in the state want Democrats to have control of the US Senate to 35% who want the Republicans in control. Warren is now winning the Democratic vote 82/13, erasing most of the crossover support that Brown had earlier in the year.

As we know, nothing is over until it's over, but this is good news for Warren.

(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)