Posted on 12/08/2009 6:07:43 PM PST by Steelfish
Sen. Brown Wins Mass. Senate Republican Primary
ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 8, 2009
BOSTON (AP) -- State Sen. Scott Brown has won the Republican nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Brown defeated businessman and attorney Jack E. Robinson in a primary marked by low turnout.
The 50-year-old Brown is a veteran legislator and lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard who has also gained local notoriety as a former Cosmopolitan centerfold model and the father of an ''American Idol'' contestant.
He faces an uphill challenge in a state where the majority of voters are independents but frequently vote Democratic.
Four Democrats are battling for the Democratic nomination: Attorney General Martha Coakley, Rep. Michael Capuano (cap-yoo-AH'-noh), City Year co-founder Alan Khazei (KAY'-zee) and Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca (pah-lee-OOH'-kah).
Kennedy died Aug. 25 of brain cancer. The general election is Jan. 19.
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Is it me, or did we NOT need English language subtitles under peoples names when I was a kid?
It’s for the Times readers, relax.
Coakley wins the rat nod easily.
AP has called the DEM primary for Coakley
The turnout really was not that light. 10 congressional districts, open primary
72% reporting:
COakley 221,000 = 47%
beats Congressman Capuano 28%, easily.
I doubt see any “Obama effect” here. No suppressed DEM vote.
You grew up before Italians arrived in America ?
I missed the “2 italians” complication. Coakley was helped by it. She was the worst of the bunch, of course.
You grew up before Italians arrived in America ?
Feels like it...but I meant the use of subtitles, not the Italian names (although I am pretty sure that Alan Khazei might not be an Eye-talian) I see this done a lot now but don’t remember it being necessary before...can’t remember reading Tony Conligiaro (KO-NIG-LEE-ARE-OH) in the Herald...
Tony Conigliaro had a bigger fan club than Capuano has.
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Pagliuca is now in 4th place, 3700 votes behind K-Z.
Barney Frank endorsed Capuano, and it didn’t help that Barney’s irritating voice has been heard on radio ads day after day.
Pagliucia also ran lots of radio ads, trying to out-liberal the rest of the crowd. Despite his millions, he’s a flaming leftist.
Coakley got the female vote, unfortunately. Boston conservative talk show host Howie Carr said even his wife liked Coakley!
“Tony Conigliaro had a bigger fan club than Capuano has.”
My brother and I used to pay 75 cents and sit in the bleachers...saw him play in ‘64, his first year up...you could sit anywhere in the park then, it was a mausoleum...until ‘67 of course...the same year he got hit...Tony C was a class act...
I sure did appreciate the New York Times (Nu-yawk-slimes) for teaching me how to properly pronounce the names of the Democratic (so-za-list) candidates.
DEM turnout going over 650,000 ... which is reasonably average.
No disenchantment with the DEMS in the Commonwealth.
Alan Khazei frigging beat Pags - he came in last. I wonder who spent more $ per vote, him or Mitt last year?
Is Coakley human or one of the androids from “Futureworld”?
Sam, you’re proving the common wisdom that most songwriters do their best work .... after downing a few Sam Adams.
Scott Brown for U.S. Senate! Why not ... it might be a blizzard in Boston on the 19th of January.
“On July 8, 2009, Coakley filed a suit, Commonwealth v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. The suit claims that Congress “overstepped its authority, undermined states’ efforts to recognize marriages between same-sex couples, and codified an animus towards gay and lesbian people.”[12] Massachusetts is the first state to challenge the legislation”
She is from the past. Gay marriage has no future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Coakley
Pandering to a key constituency - the gays.
Scott Brown’s giving a very good speech right now. I want to be optimistic, but this is Massholechusetts...and damn Coakley just flat out sucks!
I wouldn’t have thought there would be particularly low turnout, there hasn’t been a real Senate primary in MA in forever.
GOP turnout looked pretty high to me compared to past primary turnout. Even though (RINO I think) perennial candidate Jack E. Robinson was Brown’s only competition.
IF my math is right Steve Pah-lee-OOH’-kah spent about 67 bucks per vote he got. That is much more per vote than Mitt I think. I wonder what the record is.
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