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Polls Show Race For 'Kennedy Seat' About Even (Must-read!)
The Washington Post ^ | January 15, 2010 | Karl Vick

Posted on 01/14/2010 10:40:46 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: brown; coakley; ma2010; massachusetts; scottbrown
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WOW! This story is HUGE. Looks like Dems may be throwing in the towel.
1 posted on 01/14/2010 10:40:47 PM PST by Dems_R_Losers
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To: Dems_R_Losers

“insurgent”?....not so subtle “republicans are terrorists” poke?...


2 posted on 01/14/2010 10:47:42 PM PST by Crim
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Does read a bit like an Obit??

Pray for America and Scott Brown


3 posted on 01/14/2010 10:47:50 PM PST by bray (What ya in for Son? No Health Insurance. Me too.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

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.


4 posted on 01/14/2010 10:53:52 PM PST by TaMoDee
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To: Dems_R_Losers

(”the tax breaks JFK trumpeted were the calibrated adjustments of a committed Keynesian, hardly a philosophy embraced by Brown.”)

Can anyone explain this to me?
Can anyone show me how JFK was a committed Keynsian?


5 posted on 01/14/2010 10:55:52 PM PST by TShaunK
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To: Dems_R_Losers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2428818/posts

breaking news - Brown up by 4

Boston Herald is a lot more ‘supportive’...... :)


6 posted on 01/14/2010 11:00:43 PM PST by bitt (You canÂ’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak (Abraham Lincoln))
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To: TShaunK

JFK was a SUPPLY SIDER even before the term was coined.

“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today, and tax revenues are too low, and the best way to balance the budget is to cut taxes now. Only full employment can balance the budget, and tax cuts will pave the way to full employment!”


7 posted on 01/14/2010 11:03:44 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: Dems_R_Losers; GOPsterinMA; Impy; campaignPete R-CT

I enjoyed Croakley in "Poltergeist."

8 posted on 01/14/2010 11:06:04 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

He’s playing to the Tea Party crowd AND WINNING IN BLUE MA.

REPUBLICAN PARTY TAKE NOTE.


9 posted on 01/14/2010 11:08:50 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

OMG!!! It’s spot on! She scared the sh*t outta me back in the day!

Martha My Dear’s problem is that she doesn’t have lips. I’ve been trying to figure out what the hell’s off about her - it’s the lack of lips.


10 posted on 01/14/2010 11:12:37 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Never bring a snowball to a gun fight.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

My father thought it would be cute to take me to that movie not long after it was released. I was about 7 or 8. First horror movie I ever saw in the theater. I think it scarred me for life. =8-0


11 posted on 01/14/2010 11:18:24 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Now the Obumbler cover-up starts: It’s all Coakley’s fault for running a lousy campaign and failing to see when the tide turned in favor of Brown, and nothing to do with the BIG FAIL Obumbler, the fact all dems are crooks and cheats, or the dirty backroom deals the dems are cutting on the most unpopular legislation ever, the healthcare mess.


12 posted on 01/14/2010 11:18:32 PM PST by hsalaw
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Can anyone show me how JFK was a committed Keynsian?

No. Typical WAcomPost lie.

13 posted on 01/14/2010 11:19:40 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yep! I remember screaming towards the end when the corpses were coming out of the swimming pool. 1982 - I was either 9 or 10.


14 posted on 01/14/2010 11:21:20 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Never bring a snowball to a gun fight.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

That’s the scene. Seeing that swimming pool full of loyal Democrat voters is something that ain’t likely to leave one’s memory as a young ‘un.


15 posted on 01/14/2010 11:29:05 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So true, FM!


16 posted on 01/14/2010 11:30:27 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Never bring a snowball to a gun fight.)
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To: bray
Does read a bit like an Obit??

It does. Is WaPo conceding early? The urge to be right overcoming the progressive imperative?

17 posted on 01/14/2010 11:47:32 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Dems_R_Losers; FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; voteNRA; ..

Reads like an obituary.

Don’t count out the rats.


18 posted on 01/14/2010 11:50:50 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: fieldmarshaldj

LOL Very good


19 posted on 01/14/2010 11:52:31 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: All

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HELP SCOTT !!

(stole this from another FReeper, but bears repeating)

•People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank!
http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/phone-calls-for-freedom-call-1?commentId=2600775%3AComment%3A1891491&xg_source=activity

•Anyone… Anywhere… Contribute!
https://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown

•Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.

•If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=3599

.


20 posted on 01/14/2010 11:53:24 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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