Many voters can’t name a signature achievement for Healey, Suffolk/Globe poll finds. It may not matter in November.

More than half of Massachusetts voters said they can’t point to a signature accomplishment Governor Maura Healey has made during her first term. Yet, the Democrat still appears poised to win reelection easily, a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll found.

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About 56 percent of the 500 voters surveyed said, if the general election were today, they would vote for, or lean toward, Healey over either of her potential Republican opponents, with the incumbent holding leads of 25 or 27 percentage points over Mike Minogue or Brian Shortsleeve, respectively, according to the poll.

The dynamic underscores a race where Healey’s greatest achievement is not a lone standout policy initiative or political win, but “simply [her] not being the other guy,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center.

“A 25-point lead without a signature achievement . . . it’s not a referendum on her past, it’s a verdict on the opponents’ future,” said Paleologos. In other words, he said: Being a Democratic incumbent in deep-blue Massachusetts, with an unpopular Republican president in the White House, means Healey can likely override any policy deficiency.

The poll found that voters feel less confident that the state is headed in the right direction than it did the year Healey was elected governor. Voters also said they would overwhelmingly opt for US Senator Ed Markey or US Representative Seth Moulton for US Senate over the de facto Republican nominee, John Deaton, a cryptocurrency advocate who ran unsuccessfully for a Senate seat two years ago.

Healey, too, enjoyed major advantages among voters, with some saying their support is less about a specific success but rather, their confidence that she is equipped to handle the job.

When asked to name Healey’s signature achievement, 17 percent said “nothing” while another 33 percent said that they didn’t know, didn’t have an answer, or refused to say. A smaller percentage pointed to her posture against President Trump (5 percent) orto her addressing the state’s housing crisis or homelessness (6 percent).

“I have a few friends that met Maura, who said they trust her to make good decisions,“ said Jeff Hacker, a 67-year-old registered Democrat from Lincoln. ”But I don’t know what the hell she’s done.”

Gil Swire, a 72-year-old retiree from Stoughton, echoed the sentiment. He said he thinks Healey shows a “consistent approach” and “a lot more statesmanship” in dealing with issues than, say, Trump. He also said he couldn’t think of an accomplishment that has defined her first term in the corner office.

“But,” he said, “she makes me feel assured that she has a serious grasp of the problems. If there is a shortfall in the budget, she finds ways to close it. If there’s a problem with the federal government, she states what it is and does not back down.”

Trump, at times, has dominated Healey’s reelection pitch. In an address last month to activists during the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s convention in Worcester, Healey framed the governor’s race as a referendum on the president, and herself as the only candidate equipped to stand up to him.

In a head-to-head match with Minogue, a former Abiomed executive, Healey earned 56 percent of voters’support, compared to 31 percent for Minogue, a Hamilton Republican, in the new Suffolk/Globe poll.

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Against Shortsleeve, a former MBTA executive, Healey similarly got 56 percent while 29 percent said they would vote or lean toward Shortsleeve, of Barnstable.

Healey is also beating Minogue among men, 46 to 41 percent, which bodes poorly for Minogue, who describes himself as a “pro-life” Catholic, and is vulnerable to losing support from women for that reason, said Paleologos, the Suffolk pollster.

Minogue runs a nearly $23 million family foundation with his wife, Renee Minogue, that has donated to groups that have touted pro-life stances. That includes Prager University, a conservative media organization whose founder, Dennis Prager, has said most abortions are not moral, as well as the Massachusetts Family Institute, an anti-abortion “pro-family” advocacy group.

About 51 percent of people said the state is heading in the right direction. That’s a dip from a Suffolk/Globe poll right before the 2022 election, when 59 percent felt that way. More than 72 percent said in the latest poll that the country is heading in the wrong direction,the highest number in Suffolk polling since at least 2020.

In the US Senate race, voters gave Markey and Moulton similar marks in separate head-to-head matchups against Deaton.

The survey found 55 percent of voters would choose Markey, the 79-year-old incumbent, over Deaton if they matched against each other in an election held today. About 54 percent said they would pick Moulton, a 47-year-old Iraq War veteran who has made Markey’s age and seniority a central part of his primary challenge, in his own hypothetical match-up against Deaton in November.

Most voters also indicated that a candidate’s age matters little, if at all, in their decision. About 41 percent called it a small factor, and 33 percent said it didn’t matter.

That hewed closely to how Democratic primary voters viewed a similar question in an April Suffolk/Globe poll, when 36 and 32 percent, respectively, said it mattered a little or not at all.

In other words, Deaton has “an uphill fight” against either Democrat, Paleologos said.

“Both [tests] show that the Democratic nominee is poised to win,” he said.

The Suffolk/Globe poll was conducted over five days last week, and its margin of error was plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. Live callers reached respondents via mobile and landline phones.

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Anjali Huynh of the Globe staff contributed to this report.