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Poll shocker: Scott Brown surges ahead in Senate race
Boston Herald ^ | Jan 15, 2010 | Jessica Van Sack

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: coakley; ma2010; marthacoakley; massachusetts; scottbrown
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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.


201 posted on 01/15/2010 6:54:54 AM PST by FutureRocketMan
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To: Darkwolf377
may even get the knuckleheads in DC to realize conservatism is where most real Americans are.

Hi, Wolf. They may realize this at some level, but they'll never acquiesce. Socialism is their life's work.

202 posted on 01/15/2010 6:55:47 AM PST by bcsco (Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
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To: bitt; SaxxonWoods; Jet Jaguar; Nachum; FlingWingFlyer; altair; potlatch; stephenjohnbanker
Thanks for reporting on the poll.

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.

203 posted on 01/15/2010 7:02:40 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Go-Go Donofrio.)
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To: SeattleBruce

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.


204 posted on 01/15/2010 7:07:18 AM PST by FutureRocketMan
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To: Darkwolf377

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?


205 posted on 01/15/2010 7:07:40 AM PST by William Tell 2
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To: ExTexasRedhead; LucyT; bgill; Whenifhow; malkee; STE=Q; rocco55; thouworm; rxsid; GOPJ; ...

Ping................

Thank you, ExTexasReadhead for the wonderful, uplifting video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0


206 posted on 01/15/2010 7:09:54 AM PST by melancholy (Stop USA change, destroy the 0b0z0ne layer!)
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To: Darkwolf377

You just described the Illinois/Chicago conundrum.


207 posted on 01/15/2010 7:19:51 AM PST by bcsco (Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
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To: freekitty

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.


208 posted on 01/15/2010 7:30:54 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: bitt

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.


209 posted on 01/15/2010 7:33:28 AM PST by katieanna
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To: Darkwolf377
I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but I visited Boston just once and was much taken with the people there. The ones I came in contact with (businessmen, shoppers, cops, clerks, waiters, airport workers, drivers) were smart, kind, and down-to-earth. Real people. You folks deserve better than Ms. Coakley. Please vote for Mr. Brown and warn him that you'll turn him out, too, if he forgets who elected him.
210 posted on 01/15/2010 7:33:55 AM PST by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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To: bitt

El- B U M P- O


211 posted on 01/15/2010 7:38:54 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: William Tell 2

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.


212 posted on 01/15/2010 7:39:52 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Bostonian conservative, atheist prolifer)
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To: William Tell 2; Kenny Bunk; bitt

“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.


213 posted on 01/15/2010 7:45:22 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: DeusExMachina05

“. Think political Darwinism.”

I’m thinking DeusExMachina ;-)


214 posted on 01/15/2010 7:48:18 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: bitt

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.


215 posted on 01/15/2010 7:53:48 AM PST by Moonlighter (.)
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To: Moonlighter

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.


216 posted on 01/15/2010 7:59:36 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: AuH2ORepublican
Why would you think that Coakley couldn’t break 30% in Berkshire County? It’s a horrifically liberal area, and votes far more Democrat than Boston’s southern suburbs.

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....

217 posted on 01/15/2010 8:04:56 AM PST by Chances Are (Whew! Seems I've found that silly grin again!)
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To: bitt

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


218 posted on 01/15/2010 8:09:55 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: melancholy

Thanks for the ping. Inspiring video!


219 posted on 01/15/2010 8:15:41 AM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: FrdmLvr

It’s that crazy Alinsky way.


220 posted on 01/15/2010 8:16:44 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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