Posted on 10/29/2010 7:28:56 PM PDT by A_Cougar
Remember, as of just a few weeks ago, this seat wasnt even on the board. Then, for the first time in decades, MA-4 popped up in the likely Democratic column. And now, if youll pardon the pun, its moved a bit further to the right. I was thinking yesterday after I wrote that post about Bielats internal polling that maybe it wasnt what it was cracked up to be: The topline number was conspicuously omitted (why would a pollster ever do that?) and the data was 10 days old (are the more recent numbers so grim that they had to leak stale ones?). In hindsight, I thought, they were probably trying to put the best face on an increasingly bad situation. But now here comes Cook with the best news Ive heard all day to the point where I wonder if, miracle of miracles, we might actually see this seat in the toss up column come Monday. My friends, the wave is upon us.
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Its really beyond me how anyone but the most brain-dead lefties could vote for Frank. But then Frank’s district is specifically designed to include such individuals.
Expect Barney Frank’s homo lover to heckle him outside his house like he did on Bielat..
What are the numbers???
Its really beyond my comprehension that ANYONE could still vote for Barney. After everything he’s done, and he still has a lead?
Instead of going through the various polls, I’ll post this analysis from Cook editor David Wasserman:
Very few 30-year incumbents release a poll one day showing them leading 56% to 37%, then take $200,000 out of their retirement plan to fund their race. Then again, very few incumbents are Barney Frank. Multiple media polls taken since then have shown the Financial Services chairman under 50%, including a Boston Globe survey showing Frank leading Marine Corps Reservist Sean Bielat 46% to 33%, with a high number of undecided independents. That makes some sense after Frank has endured a rough spate of press, including his camera-wielding partners awkward confrontation of Bielat.
Bielat has raised an astounding $600,000 in the first two weeks of October (more than his campaign had raised the whole year prior). Obviously the cash is mostly flooding in from outside the district, but it means Bielat has the resources to play David versus Franks Goliath on the airwaves in the final week. One ad set to steel drums intones, While you were worried about your job or mortgage, Barney Frank was on his way to the islands on a private jet owned by a Wall Street fat cat who got millions in bailouts. This is an extremely Democratic district, and Frank is still the favorite, but its a race.
I usually groan at most political ads, but this one makes me laugh. It's very well done, and it's effective--you listen to it and just can't deny the facts and the impact.
I don't think Beilat would be even this close if Barney hadn't panicked and lent himself that money--it made people think "What does he know that we don't?" (The answer being, of course, "Not much.")
Rush reported a few days ago that Barney Frank’s seat was unsafe.
That's why I always use the paper strips before I sit.
Having lived back east years ago, I have some understanding of these liberal sanctuary perversion districts, like Pelosi’s home snake nest.
But I know that even in these places families are trying to get ahead.
Vote for the cleanest way out of this mess!
If this wave ends up being less than 50 net... if it’s only in the 40s, say... the press will start chanting, “Ah, normal mid-term, move-along-nothing-to-see-here”
In order for this election to have decisive historic impact, more than a few of the old guard must be thrown out. Much as I would like Frank to be this year’s Tom Foley, I fear it is such a gerrymandered kind of sinecure seat, so common now, that we will have to put up w/ types like him until they retire/decease.
:)
The voters are going to do to Fwank what Bawney has done to America for years.
Pray for the Election
Great news that it’s becoming this close but “frankly” it’s amazing that Bawney hasn’t been tarred and feathered (he’d probably enjoy that!) long ago for his role in causing the financial crisis.
I’d hate to be Bawneys boyfriend these past few weeks...well, anytime for that matter.
Too many people with money have been burned by Bwaney’s policies - the aforementioned scene in Newton goes a long way to prove this. Sean wins by 2-4%. I've been saying this for ~6 weeks, and I stand by it.
I think the Scott Brown election has shown that Barney Frank’s seat was in jeopardy. I don’t know if Frank will lose the seat but it is obvious that many more people today in Mass. than in the past have had enough of the Democrats and their trashing of the country. In particular, they’ve had enough of Barney Frank.
WAKE UP EVERYBODY! IT’S NOT OVER. THERE ARE 3 MORE DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE GO TO seanbielat.org and give Sean’s campaign $10 to help finish off Barney.
Ewww...I certainly hope not!
New breaking Update...Barney Frank’s seat is now moving from “leaning” to “bending over” !!!
New breaking Update...Barney Frank’s seat is now moving from “leaning” to “bending over” !!!
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