Posted on 01/16/2010 8:21:57 PM PST by Saije
With the political winds at the back of Republican Scott Brown, pollsters tracking the Massachusetts Senate race are skeptical that President Obama’s Boston rally on Sunday will be enough to put Democrat Martha Coakley over the top.
Her supporters are holding on to the hope that Obama’s appearance, along with the wave of reports about Brown’s surging poll numbers, will inspire Democrats who’ve been cool to Coakley and the race until now to turn out at the polls to back her.
Given the state’s leftward tilt – it last elected a Republican senator in 1972, and Democrats outnumber Republicans by about three-to-one – that could avert a stunning Democratic loss of a seat that seemed safe as recently as two weeks ago.
“A lot of people don’t even realize there is an election on Tuesday to fill the unexpired term of Ted Kennedy,” Obama says in a robocall that state voters began receiving Friday. “They don’t realize why it’s so important.”
David Paleologos, the director of the Political Research Center at Boston's Suffolk University, said Obama’s visit was “less about persuasion – just one percent of voters are still undecided – and more about inspiration,” making sure Democrats voters disinterested in the race or cool to Coakley head to the polls.
But so far it’s been Brown who’s benefited from turning the election into a referendum on the president’s policies. He’s based much of his campaign on a promise to stop Obama’s health plan, since his win would leave Democrats one vote shy of the 60 needed to stop a filibuster, while Coakley has vowed to pass it.
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Must be because they're so poor, and so black.
If Zero shows up in MA, it’s only to distribute negative reinforcement to the Rats - he’ll not be there to cheer for Chokely.
Actually, in this case I agree with them. No matter how much Mass Dems may like Obama, they know that if they vote for Coakley based on him, that he’ll be back in D.C. to tuck Sasha and malia in to bed on Sunday night, and they’ll be stuck with Coakley for (how many?)long years!
If he had your idea, he would have moved much faster to Haiti.
You Mass folks spread the word to take video cameras for anyone going to welcome Obama to Boston on Sunday.
Favorite Communist ploy at this point is to create an incident and blame it on the opposition party. So look for the union wannabe thugs to cause trouble.
Clueless as usual, eh Odumbo?
You forget that you're talking to YOUR voters. You know - the same ones who believed all the dreck that you spewed last year? The same ones who didn't have the good sense to find out for themselves that you're an avowed Marxist, who's hell-bent on destroying their very way of life?
You actually expect YOUR voters to know that there's an election going on in their own back yard that has the potential to destroy your pathetic term in office?
Idiot...
The MOJO is in Browns favor... The Dems are in FULL retreat and defensive mode in just one year..... Obummer is 1 and done.
The world is getting righter, don't you think? I'm so lovin' this.
Croak...ley. They are croaking!
A dagger in the heart of the Democratic party’s and the President’s leftist programs if Brown wins.
Even if he loses in a very close vote it should stagger the Dems and MSM who wrote off the Republican party as finished only a year ago.
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