Posted on 01/14/2010 9:33:21 PM PST by bitt
.."Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.
Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.
“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”
The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead. Unenrolled long-shot Joseph L. Kennedy, an information technology executive with no relation to the famous family, gets 3 percent of the vote. Only 1 percent of voters were undecided.
Paleologos said bellweather models show high numbers of independent voters turning out on election day, which benefits Brown, who has 65 percent of that bloc compared to Coakley’s 30 percent. Kennedy earns just 3 percent of the independent vote, and 1 percent are undecided.
Given the 4.4-point margin of error, the poll shows Coakley could win the race, Paleologos said. But if Brown’s momentum holds, he is poised to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - and to halt health-care reform, the issue the late senator dubbed “the cause of my life.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
don’t hold your breath. This is massachusetts we’re talking about, probably the second most liberal state in the Nation next to Calfornia. I’m not saying that Brown will win or lose, but the polls are not a highly accurate tool to predict the atmosphere of the political world, especially with a low number polled. Wait until the returns start pouring in.
Hi, Wolf. They may realize this at some level, but they'll never acquiesce. Socialism is their life's work.
Good effort! But I must point out that the results are a little vague for our ACORN Vote Finder Service. We here at ACORN need to know exactly how many votes we'll need to overcome this obvious Republican attempt to rig The People's Will.
The poll does show that we will need a lot more "street money," though, to keep Kennedy's Seat in safe hands. For example:
Our Cemetery Registration Teams have also been hampered by the very cold weather and snow.
Our Inner City Church groups will need new batteries and tune-ups for the vans that take our minorities from precinct to precinct, so they can make up for the hundreds of years they were held in bondage and thus denied their right to vote.
With the vicious cold snap, the Church Halls where we fill out the multiple absentee ballots will need a little help with the higher power bills this past month, caused by Republican resistance to Climate Change Legislation.
Here at ACORN we have not forgotten our Latino Brothers and Sisters. It will take a lot of resources to get the undocumented the documents they need to exercise their fundamental right to be voted Democrat in this election in the precincts where needed.
Our hacking teams are also hard at work creating entire families at fictitious addresses and getting them on the rolls. (The Loretta Sanchez Memorial Hacker Team)
But stay calm. ACORN has pulled hotter election chestnuts out of bigger fires than this one! Just keep that stimulus money coming and we'll turn out the numbers we need to avert disaster.
Remember folks. When Motor Voter and traditional vote generating mehtods are not enough, there's always ACORN.
He did, though i don’t know which poll. I don’t think however, it was ever 50 percent. Maybe it was, I don’t remember.
I wonder though why Brown doesn’t address Coakley as a machine candidate history or that any Democrat is a product of a corrupt political machine. If he did would that help do you think?
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Thank you, ExTexasReadhead for the wonderful, uplifting video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0
You just described the Illinois/Chicago conundrum.
This is exactly why I’m wondering why the big to-do over it. All the Dem-wits have to do is get the thing passed regardless of what’s actually in it.
A marketing researcher, whose name escapes me, conducted her own poll based on social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. She did it by keyword searching the candidates names. On YouTube, Brown was searched 10:1 over Coakley; Facebook 4:1; Twitter more than 4:1.
El- B U M P- O
He has been doing that in the past week—and look at the polls. It’s working because he’d established his bona fides (sp) and then he used them. You should direct campaigns, he used your idea and he’s pulling ahead.
“I wonder though why Brown doesn’t address Coakley as a machine candidate history or that any Democrat is a product of a corrupt political machine. If he did would that help do you think?”
No. Massachusetts is a Democrat state. Don’t piss off the natives.....we need them to jump ship, and vote for Scott.
“. Think political Darwinism.”
I’m thinking DeusExMachina ;-)
As inconceivable as it is that a non-Dem could get elected to a Senate seat in Mass, it’s not inconceivable that Brown could take this thing...he’s finishing strongly on a much more personal, positive tone whereas people are turned off by Coakley, her negative attacks/ads/Bush syndrome, turning the cheek on her goon incident and her support of Obamacare...and she can’t pronounce “Tuesday” to save her life. People are not enthused...this one is going to come down to turnout, so while this is goods news, we need to keep up the hard work and diligence until every vote is counted.
Coakley is merely a political hack, in lockstep with Obama/SEIU. Let’s hope that Bostonians are at least somewhat pissed off at Obama. If Brown wins, it will be the first conservative elected there in over 50 years.
She could. But that's not really the point here.
Although you never really know until the vote actually occurs and the votes are counted (correctly, I mean!), there appears to be a sizable, even seismic, shift occurring within the electorate. While it's less than likely Scott will carry the usual bastions of Communist support (!), it appears enough people are rethinking past priorities in light of new economic and societal realities.
People are getting pissed, looking for an outlet for venting their pent-up rage. They're mad because this is not quite the "hope and change" they envisioned when they voted these boobs in, and the feeling of rising ire at what is happening is compounded by the fact that those they voted in are steadfastly ignoring them.
If you know Liberals at all, you'll know that in spite of everything that is found to be wanting in them, they will NOT cotton to being ignored, especially by those who purport to represent them.
No, give current realities, not just in Mass but everywhere in the country, Democratic "strength", such as it is, appears to be a mile wide and an inch deep.
And I'll tell you this - if somehow Scott does take some of those southern suburbs, it'll signal a sea change perhaps never seen before in National electoral history.
CA....
Every independent voter in MA needs to see this video:
Watch Coakley’s two thugs as they sight McCormack and the big thug goes after McCormack.
Then, watch the last 30 seconds or so after the thug pushed McCormack down and continued to hassle, assault and threaten him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyIVstNTa8
Please get this to your ping lists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyIVstNTa8
Thanks for the ping. Inspiring video!
It’s that crazy Alinsky way.
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