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Polls are open. Senate race in Massachusetts comes down to wire Read the article here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mass-senate19-2010jan19,0,6084655.story?track=rss

Depending on which poll you believe Republican Scott Brown is ahead by anywhere for 3-15 percentage points heading into the last two days of campaigning before election day. However no matter which poll one looks at, Scott Brown is moving up and Martha Coakley is moving down. During the past week Coakley had to pull two TV ads, one because she spelled the name of her own state Massachusetts incorrectly, in the other she insensitively used a picture of the twin towers as a background in an attack ad. But today was a "twofer." Two of the Democratic Candidate's Campaign...

A Boston Globe survey released today, showed Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Senator, Martha Coakley with a 15-point lead in the race to replace Teddy Kennedy, but a survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling found the race a dead heat, with Republican Scott Brown up 48% to 47%. What makes this scary for Democrats is that Mass. is their home ideological turf their candidate should be up 30% by now. Indeed they should be frightened, that same Democratic Party run Public Policy Poll found that likely Bay State voters oppose the Obamacare plans by 47% to 41% and that...

Martha Coakley up by 15 points (says the Boston Globe)? Doesn't seem right to this Massachusetts resident. Also, the Boston Herald is supposedly going to release a poll showing Coakley only 1 point ahead. Here's more on the polls from Legal Insurrection blog [excerpt]: Obama wins New Hampshire primary in a landslide! That was the prediction of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center and most other pollsters prior to the primary. In fact, Hillary Clinton won the primary, causing much hand wringing. This shows us that we need to be cautious with polling data. It is just part of...

As most of you know, Tuesday's primary election to fill Ted Kennedy's US Senate seat wasn't much of a stunner. Both frontrunners won. In the Democratic primary Attorney General Martha Coakley beat out three other candidates with 47%, and State Senator Scott Brown got 89% against Jack E. Robinson. Coakley and Brown will face each other in the general election January 19. This race has huge implications, both locally and nationally. The kind of representation we get in the US Senate could hardly be different.Coakley is even more radically left-wing across the board than Ted Kennedy, if that's possible. Her...