Posted on 01/16/2010 5:53:12 AM PST by truthandlife
Shaken by polls showing Republican Scott Brown surging in the Senate race that could decide the fate of President Obama's agenda, Democrats on Friday scrambled to shore up the battered candidacy of Martha Coakley, the state attorney general whose once-commanding lead appeared to vanish in the space of two weeks.
The White House announced that Obama will campaign here Sunday. Former president Bill Clinton broke away from promoting Haitian relief to rally the Democratic faithful, which polls show has taken a victory by Coakley as much for granted as analysts say her campaign clearly did.
Both candidates announced plans to barnstorm the three days before Tuesday's special election. Brown will mount a bus tour; Coakley will place her hopes on a recast stump speech unveiled at the rallies with Clinton.
Striving to redefine the race with a message of compassionate populism evocative of Edward M. Kennedy, whose death created the vacancy, Coakley emotionally told of the struggles of a young mother seeking health care, an ice cream parlor owner unable to expand his store, and a construction worker who needs work to afford the medicine to keep his wife's breast cancer in remission.
"That is wrong," Coakley said after each story. "And that's why I'm going to go to Washington and fight for Stephanie . . . Vince . . . Jim and his family."
The fundamental dynamic of the race fell in place months ago, when Brown set off in a pickup truck for the only campaign the Republican could afford: retail, door-to-door. The campaign was so strapped for cash that aides described the $40,000 spent in the primary as a major hit. Brown could not afford to mail out absentee ballots, often so crucial in a close race.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Pathetic.
Hopefulling they don’t make the mistake of having “old Ted” vote in this election.
They don’t have the Democrat machine in place because they never have had to have it in Massachusetts.
FROM THE ARTICLE:
I think we overestimated the state’s Democraticness and underestimated the national mood,” one senior Democratic strategist said Friday. “We thought that the state’s deep blue voting pattern would help us withstand national trends.”
Coakley was rarely in position to detect the growing anger Brown would channel. Her strategy called for cultivating the local Democratic leaders who could be relied on to turn out enough of the faithful to win a special election, traditionally a low-turnout affair.
“I didn’t think relying on the governor and the mayor and this whole trickle-down voting was going to work,” said Sandy Fleishman, 69, a campaign volunteer at the Clinton rally. “I’m part of the old-fashioned politics. To a lot of people who don’t follow the issues, you shake their hand, you’ve got their vote.”
Again, who's seat?
I think it is Mary Jo Kopechne’s seat!
I’m sure that Ted Kennedy, RFK, JFK, JFK jr., and every Kennedy going back several generations will be voting for Coakley.
The Democrats always get 100% of the Deceased-American vote...
Wow. Two writers needed to tell us how bad Coakley is as a candidate?
The worst evah!
I think that if shook Coakley's hand I'd feel the need to take a shower...
There are reports Saturday morning that Senate Dems, lacking Coakley’s vote will move to use “reconcilation” to pass health care.
The media reporting this, seem to think this is just fine. When the GOP considered the same move to overcome Dem opposition in the Senate for Bush court appointees the msm called this “the nuclear option”.
Guess it depends who is doing it.
I've seen people shoot themselves in the foot before, but never reload so fast.
Is there any doubt as to the priorities of these scum?
I pray every day for the people of this country's eyes to be opened.
And they mention how broke Brown is a paragraph later.
They quote Brown about 9 paragraphs later.
And they mention Brown's cash surge three paragraphs from the end of the article.
NO BIAS THERE, you freakin scumbags.
Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat is about to become Scott Brown's new Senate seat.
If President Bush had taken leave from promoting Haiti relief to campaign for Scott Brown, how do you think the MSM would react?
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Not to worry; a thread last night told us that SEIU — The Purple People Beaters — is busing in 300 “volunteers”. Look for some Chicago style beat downs and intimidation to suppress the R voters.
“I came here to tell the people of Massachusetts this: This country’s revolution was born in Massachusetts. The Revolutionary War was first won here. The war was over here years before it was finally finished. It started with the Boston Tea Party, and the right wing Republicans have appropriated that on the premise the tea party was against government.”
Clinton added, “What they were against was abuse of power.”
He sought to frame the race as a battle between those who will fight for the powerful and those who will fight for the powerless.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1225926
They’re making so much noise up there in Mass., that they’re liable to wake the dead. Oops, that’s just what they want to do.
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