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Poll: 55% of Massachusetts Residents Support Boston Hosting '24 Summer Games

More than 55% of Massachusetts residents surveyed this week "support hosting the Olympics," compared with nearly 40% "who oppose it," according to a Sage Consulting poll cited by Shirley Leung of the BOSTON GLOBE. Only 5% of those surveyed "were undecided." Leung: "Maybe that's why Mayor Marty Walsh decided for everyone last week to not have a referendum for the 2024 Summer Games. He already knew the answer." But enthusiasm for the Games "comes with a big asterisk." When asked whether residents would support the Olympics if tax dollars were used, close to 61% of respondents said that they "would oppose Boston’s bid" and only 33% would support it. Sage "conducted the telephone poll of 1,600 residents on Monday," with the margin of error at 2.45% (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/16). Boston 2024 Partnership officials have said that their own internal polling shows more than 50% "support a Boston Olympics" (BOSTON HERALD, 1/16). In Boston, Chris Cassidy notes Boston 2024 organizers on Thursday "refused to say ... which bid documents they will be keeping under wraps when they go before the public next week." The organizers said that the USOC had "asked them not to make public certain documents with 'proprietary information.'” But officials "refused to say what exactly constituted 'proprietary information' and roughly how many pages of bid documents would be kept private" (BOSTON HERALD, 1/16). 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: In Boston, Jim O'Sullivan writes the Olympics effort’s momentum "has built with barely a burble of institutionalized political opposition." It is an "unusual dynamic in a civic ecosystem that cherishes its seemingly divine right to turn even the most picayune policy question into pitched battle." The Boston 2024 campaign "has succeeded, thus far, in part by marrying what is purportedly a private-sector enterprise with prominent figures who have ties to the public sector." Even elected officials who "harbor deep misgivings about the Games -- due to its expected cost, security risks, or potential for embarrassing mismanagement -- say privately that they keep their fears quiet so as not to trigger any backlash" (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/16).

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