Polls Show Race For 'Kennedy Seat' About Even (Must-read!)

The Washington Post ^ | January 15, 2010 | Karl Vick

[Dems_R_Losers]

BOSTON -- The seeds of the drama that could see the Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy slip to Republican control began to sprout during what is traditionally the quietest week on the political calendar.

"Things began to change the week between Christmas and New Year's," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a strategist for insurgent Republican Scott Brown. "That's the week we put our JFK ad up."

The commercial, which aired for only five days, depicted John F. Kennedy, the Democratic congressman who 58 years ago ran an insurgent campaign to capture the Republican-held "Cabot seat," morphing into Brown, the obscure state senator who surveys suggest might do the same with what's become known as the "Kennedy seat" when grumpy Massachusetts voters go to the polls on Tuesday.

But although the audacious spot was ripe for challenge -- the tax breaks JFK trumpeted were the calibrated adjustments of a committed Keynesian, hardly a philosophy embraced by Brown -- not a peep was heard from the campaign of Martha Coakley. Having won the Democratic primary by remaining the aloof front-runner, the state attorney general was not about to engage with a Republican whom the latest poll showed trailing her by 30 points.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Wapo = liars and losers

See here:

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/01/14/massachusetts-shocker-brown-up-15-in-pajamas-mediacrosstarget-poll/

[skinkinthegrass]

Don’t get deceived! All MA supporters of Brown must vote in order to counter the fraud and “lost ballots” that are being planned as we type.

D@mn Right....don't this poll, lull you to sleep.

GO VOTE!

BUMP

[101voodoo]

He wasn’t. It’s just more Left Wing revisionist history

[tlb]

>>>>>Another variable is the third- party candidacy of Joseph L. Kennedy, a Libertarian who is no relation to the late senator but who acquitted himself well in the debate. “If this race continues to close, his 3 percent or 2 percent, is going to be huge,”

There’s your ringer. If Brown loses so that Obama keeps his supermajority, thank a third-partier.

[olezip]

Having won the Democratic primary by remaining the aloof front-runner, the state attorney general was not about to engage with a Republican whom the latest poll showed trailing her by 30 points.

Coakley appears to be unattractive and inarticulate; she is repulsive rather than warm and cuddly. But who knows what the Democrat machine can and will do to make sure she wins. The payoffs to the Democrat voters are many; taxes on the middle class are repressive; there is an underground economy, and graft and corruption are acceptable forms of behavior. I would not know what to expect, except, perhaps, that the voters want to remind the Democrats that it is the "people's seat."

[mort56]

I love the smell of panic in the morning. It smells like victory...God willing.

[Styria]

It is Coakley's fault, her own disconnect and her own character (most dems are liars, but still campaign better than her), but we'll take whatever we can get.

After she loses this, she's going to be extremely vulnerable in any challenge for the AG position, whether primary or general election.

[SaraJohnson]

Dads... Life would be dull and stagnant without ‘em. Sometimes it is scarey with ‘em.