Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

[SPIN CONTROL]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

Definitely a hard-core, right wing nutjob. No question. And he hates rape victims, too. Coakley is a real piece of work!

I wonder if she thinks Ted Kennedy wanted hospitals to turn away rape victims as well.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/0...ope-benedict-i-am-writing-with-deep-humility/

"I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health care field and will continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.

 

[Pump It Up]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

Nate Silver, political polling/fantasy baseball/statistics wonk has a model made up of various polls. Link: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/massachusetts-model-mayhem.html

Under its original assumptions, the model now projects a very slight Brown edge, 49.3-48.7, which maps to a 55 percent chance of winning. Earlier today, it had given Coakley a 57 percent chance of winning. However, because the odds are under 60 percent, we still call this race a "toss-up" per our nomenclature, as we did before

He then goes through a number of different scenarios which could lead to either candidate winning. Looks like a total toss up. However, two Red Sox gaffes by Coakley in the last week cannot bode well for her.

 

[Jon]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

I'm sick of your whole state. So there.

10 plus years of commuting back and forth make me not necessarily disagree with you.

More Coakley bashing: this is the worst campaign I've seen since John McCain. Her commercials that compare Scott Brown to Hitler are so bottomlessly stupid that lichen would ignore them. Ted Kennedy would have stomped Scitt Brownmey like an empty. Who the hell is running her campaign? Tim Army?

 

[Red Cloud]

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More Coakley bashing: this is the worst campaign I've seen since John McCain. Her commercials that compare Scott Brown to Hitler are so bottomlessly stupid that lichen would ignore them. Ted Kennedy would have stomped Scitt Brownmey like an empty. Who the hell is running her campaign? Tim Army?

Army AND Pooley.

 

[Jon]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

Army AND Pooley.

With a dash of Dahl Stall.

At least Scott Brown knows that he's doing. He might be annoying me, but he's charismatic.

 

[Red Cloud]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

With a dash of Dahl Stall.

Noted Jets fan Bill Belichek notes that going into prevent defense in the 3rd quarter was the wrong move for Coakley.

 

[Jon]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

Noted Jets fan Bill Belichek notes that going into prevent defense in the 3rd quarter was the wrong move for Coakley.

Running an spate of awful negative ads was a close second.

 

[Old Pio]

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31621.html

Politico declares Mabel to be in "freefall." How is that even possible?

 

[Clifton]

Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Just the icing on the cake for perhaps the worst run Democratic campaign in recent history. Here is the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (Chris Van Hollen) explaining why Scott Brown should not be elected to the SEAT PREVIOUSLY HELD BY TED KENNEDY:

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

 

[Old Pio]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

Assuming the best (or worst depending on your perspective) tomorrow, it will be interesting to see what the pros think about this race. Already we're being told that Marcia is somehow uniquely inept as a candidate, a terrible campaigner. Based on the well known gaffes we've read and heard about (the shots at Fenway and Schilling are impossible to reconcile with someone of room temperature IQ or better) she's not a natural. On the other hand, Massachusetts continues to elect John Kerry, who has the personality of a can of Spam.

And whatever feellings of entitlement she may have had appear to have been validated by her campaign people and by folks like David Axelrod, the president's resident political "genius." None of these folks seemed to have grasped or anticipated the dynamic that appears to be driving Brown's surge. And that's hard to comprehend, given what we saw in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races. Independents abandoning the Democrat candidate by the busful, low turnout and enthusiasm by Democrats and an anger/fear/concern about healthcare "reform," that crosses party lines.

So it may be that Mabel was a bad candidate. And maybe a better, more populist Democrat would have done better. But I think alot of the bashing we're going to hear in the following days and weeks will at least in part be designed to obscure the fact that the president's popularity is in freefall as is support for the core of his agenda--health care "reform."

As I've posted elsewhere, I want her to lose because of her shameless self-aggrandizing behavior in two high profile "sex abuse" cases. Cases that put innocent people in prison and her on the fast track to state wide office. I would have preferred her career be derailed much earlier, because even if she loses tomorrow she'll still be Attorney General, which is a black mark on Massachusetts, for sure.

 

[joecct]

Re: Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Re: Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Just the icing on the cake for perhaps the worst run Democratic campaign in recent history. Here is the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (Chris Van Hollen) explaining why Scott Brown should not be elected to the SEAT PREVIOUSLY HELD BY TED KENNEDY:

Cue "Bridge over Troubled Waters"

BTW, what if (when?) Martha wins? The state is way too Dem and I anticipate that the polls will be kept open late due to late arriving crowds so these folks can vote:

 

[geezer]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

Nate Silver, political polling/fantasy baseball/statistics wonk has a model made up of various polls. Link: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/massachusetts-model-mayhem.html

He then goes through a number of different scenarios which could lead to either candidate winning. Looks like a total toss up. However, two Red Sox gaffes by Coakley in the last week cannot bode well for her.

It's funny, the desperation screaming out of Silver's "there's always hope" post this evening. Neutral, he is not. But here's my question, why is the eeeevil conservative Rasmussen the only poll showing Marcia with a lead? Trying to make a potential upset look more damaging tomorrow? Or what?

 

[geezer]

Re: Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Re: Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Just the icing on the cake for perhaps the worst run Democratic campaign in recent history. Here is the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (Chris Van Hollen) explaining why Scott Brown should not be elected to the SEAT PREVIOUSLY HELD BY TED KENNEDY:

frighteningly ignorant of history.

 

[Patman]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

It's funny, the desperation screaming out of Silver's "there's always hope" post this evening. Neutral, he is not. But here's my question, why is the eeeevil conservative Rasmussen the only poll showing Marcia with a lead? Trying to make a potential upset look more damaging tomorrow? Or what?

its a state race where things appear to be fluid and the margins of error appear to be high. I'd say just about anything could happen tomorrow. It depends entirely upon enthusiasm factor. We could have a situation where nobody wants to contradict the popular faction openly (Coakley voters staying mum) or we could have the bandwagon effect turn out in full (Brown voters come out in droves... those usually discouraged and thus skewing the state's R/I/D numbers and thus the polls are inadequate). We'll just have to see where it goes.

I will say that if Brown doesn't win then I don't see how a republican can win a senate seat in the state. I'm surprised he's only doing this well (winning by small numbers)... while there is a large number of discouraged normal folks out there (Brown is +14 in my hometown of Fitchburg according to a Suffolk Univ. poll) the inside I-495 and 128 belt dem constituency still seems to holding strong. There are a strong number of conservatives in state... they just get overwhelmed by the rest of the population.

edit: Silver is a progressive... he'll get a pass on his predictions which show pro-progressive results. Its only a matter of time until he overreaches.

 

[Old Pio]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

It's funny, the desperation screaming out of Silver's "there's always hope" post this evening. Neutral, he is not. But here's my question, why is the eeeevil conservative Rasmussen the only poll showing Marcia with a lead? Trying to make a potential upset look more damaging tomorrow? Or what?

I've got some new respect for Markos Moulitsas. The Daily Kos poll shows the race a tie. It was one of five released today. The other four all show Brown leading outside of the margin of error. Moulitsas told Olbermann (who is not handling this well ) that the news is grim from Massachusetts.

The reliably pro-Kennedy Boston Globe, reporting on the five new polls, simply ignored the four showing Marcia trailing, focusing only on the one that shows the race tied. They could take a lesson on honesty from Moulitsas.

 

[mookie1995]

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"Coakley admitted to making an honest mistake while filing the financial disclosure forms for her senate run claiming to have no personal assets when in fact she had an account under her husband's name with over $200,000 and a personal IRA containing approximately $12,000."

who wouldn't love a woman who lets her hubby keep 200 large in an account under his own name

 

[St. Clown]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

More Coakley bashing: this is the worst campaign I've seen since John McCain.

So this is the worst run campaign since the campaign that ended just 14 months ago? I know, it was such a long, long time ago.

 

[Sloe Gin]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

would you *kers get this election over so the rest of the country doesn't have to listen to it?

 

[The Sicatoka]

Re: Hey Massachusetts! Coakley or Brown?

As usual, I'm left craving a "no confidence"/"none of the above" option.

Preach on Reverend Z!

 

[The Sicatoka]

Re: Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Re: Do these people think before they speak (rhetorical question)

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

Saying that in reference to the seat previously held by Ted "Bridge" Kennedy.

Oh. My.

And with that it appears "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" has been thrown under the bus by her own party.