http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles..._poll_indicatesThe Democratic National Convention hasn't started yet, but the partisan gamesmanship is already underway in Boston. The Republican National Committee yesterday released a poll it commissioned that says nearly half of Massachusetts voters believe John F. Kerry should resign from the Senate as he runs for president.
In a survey of 500 Bay State voters conducted last Sunday and Monday, 59 percent said they ''are concerned" that Kerry ''missed 70 percent of the votes in the Senate over the last two years" and 45 percent say he should resign his Senate seat, according to an RNC spokeswoman, Christine Iverson.
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A Kerry spokesman, Michael Meehan, laughed as he was read the poll results.
''The Republicans' frustration is understandable," he said. ''They haven't been able to beat him for more than 20 years, and now they hope he'll quit over a cooked poll. It's laughable."