BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- A new Boston Globe poll released Thursday shows that Republican Charlie Baker has a 9-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley in the race for governor.
Baker has moved up from 38-percent support to 45-percent since August. Coakley is trailing with 36-percent. The new poll, showing results from Oct. 19 through Oct. 22, has a plus or minus 4-point margin of error.
Coakley's campaign released a statement in response to the poll, calling it an "outlier" and "the only public poll to show such intense volatility in the race for governor, going from Baker up 3 three weeks ago to Coakley up 5 two weeks ago, to even last week and Baker up 9 this week."
The statement went on to say, "Every other public poll has shown a very stable campaign with very little movement over the past month. In addition, our own campaign polling this week shows the race within the margin of error, closely aligning with with WBUR poll publicly released this week."
Baker's campaign also put out a statement Thursday night: "This latest poll further evidences a clear trend of growing bipartisan support for Charlie Baker," said Conroy. "Charlie's honest and positive message of good jobs, great schools and an accountable, fiscally responsible state government is presenting a clear contrast with the Attorney General's campaign based on misleading negative attacks and plans to increase taxes."
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