Massachussetts Armageddon: Dems Going “All Out” for Coakley in Final Three Days
Stop counting those chickens.
Obama and the Democrats have not conceded the Massachussetts senate race, as some have suggested. Quite the opposite: This morning, Obama’s national Democratic activist group Organizing for America sent out a mass email to supporters saying they will fight tooth and nail to hang on to “Ted Kennedy’s seat”:
OFA is going all out in Massachusetts — we’re sending organizers, knocking on doors, and making phone calls by the tens of thousands to make sure that folks know how to participate.
It’s a huge effort, it’s expensive, and time is short. But with the outcome uncertain and the stakes sky high, I don’t want to wake up the morning after the election thinking that we could have done something more. If you feel the same way, please donate $5 or more to help us make Martha Coakley the next senator from Massachusetts…
This is in sharp contrast to some reports yesterday claiming that the Democrats are already making plans for how to handle the inevitable defeat in Massachussetts.
Of course, the email is also full of the usual truth-stretching hyperbole intended to rile up the liberal base:
The polls are tightening as right-wing money floods the state, and one even shows the race to be a dead heat between progressive champion Martha Coakley and her extreme opponent. The truth is, special elections often have very low turnout and are notoriously unpredictable.
The stakes are just too high to leave Martha’s victory to chance.
If we lose, Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat will be in the hands of someone who opposes everything he fought for.
This of course is laughable — Scott Brown would actually be among the most liberal Republicans in the Senate. But hey, facts play no role in this modern era of do-or-die politics.
Republicans are beginning to think Massachussetts is in the bag. Democrats are betting the rent money that the seat can be saved.
Who ever imagined an election Armageddon would happen so soon into Obama’s presidency?
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Bradford Johnson:
I am reporting from the belly of the beast, having lived here all my life (except for 24 years in the US Foreign Service.
In my life, I have never witnessed an election with this much intensity. Watching TV here is like watching Godzilla v. Mothra with strings of three, four, even five political ads in each station break. Brown has clusters (sometimes with 20 to 30 people showing up at strategic street intersections and overpasses waving signs. Every online political column in the Boston Globe is followed by scores of conservative comments.
Matha Coakley has turned into a gaffe-machine that even puts Biden to shame. Yesterday, she attempted to call Curt Schilling (he supports Brown) a “Yankee fan” during a talk radio interview. A few weeks back she, in exasperation, ranted at a reporter (on tape) that ‘what was (she) supposed to do? Go out to Fenway and freeze?’ This is while Scott Brown was doing exactly that in order to meet the public. In the most widely-watched tv debate on Monday she claimed the US should leave Afghanistan ‘because there are no terrorists there.’ On Wednesday, she followed that up by flying down to DC to collect buckets of money from lobbyists from Big Pharma. It would be difficult to make this stuff up.
Even so, Brown faces an uphill fight here, despite some comforting polls. Labor, ACORN, and the other usual suspects are being bused into the Bay State to provide the foot soldiers for a very formidable army this Tuesday. Coakley has brought out a huge arsenal of attack ads that, though filled with distortions, form a constant barrage on radio and tv.
It is way too early to celebrate here. It is not enough to say that coming this close is itself a victory. With some more effort, Brown can win this thing.
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Mongoose:
How right you are to assert that this is not in the bag, not at all. It is a long shot at best.
He has too pull out at least a 10% margin to win–it would take that sort of margin to beat the Democrats vote fraud. Even if he does that, it would take real fear of outrage from the MA electorate from the democrat machine in order to avoid a really outrageous, in your face freud. I bet the Democrats manage to steal it. how they will be emboldened if they pull that one off. We are getting a taste right now of how November will play out.
If the GOP were smart, they would be preparing to use this as a showcase of democrat election fraud as this is most likely the outcome.
I hope I am wrong, but people should not count their chicken before they are hatched.
The Democrats will stop at nothing.
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Boston Marc:
Guys, i am here – on the ground and anecdotal evidence is huge , i live in watertown about 5 miles west of Boston – today i drove around and counted dozens of Brown signs and bumper stickers, and i swear NOT ONE Coakley sign or sticker – this is a middle income area – upper working class – as a matter of fact people are stealing Brown signs from in front of houses – ( because they have no more ) and putting them in busier areas , i saw a house today in newton that had a lawn sign inside 2 – 5 gallon buckets filled with concrete – so no one could steal it –
keep in mind the unenrolled here is 50 % of the electorate – Brown is polling 65-70 % against 23 % w/ unenrolled – Huge , 10 % of absentees have voted – Brown 58 % Joakley 41 or so – Brown will win – the areas outside Boston are very on the up and up voting wise -
keep the faith Brown will crush this elitist
snob – The Peoples Republic is back in play – BHO is destroying the Dem party – and i love it – this will be the second shot haerd round the world -
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Big Red:
Brown has already scored an immense tactical victory. Win or lose, he has forced the Dems to expend a tremendous amount of treasure and resources on the bluest seat in the Senate, something they did not plan on having to do.They are in disarray and scared sh!tless. Obama fell for the oldest trick in the book, the old Briar Patch routine (don’t come to Mass). They now realise NO seat is “safe”. You listening now, Russ Feingold???
Jan 16, 2010 - 7:19 pm
21. myth buster:
20. You mean Brown has already won an immense strategic victory. Forcing the enemy to expend vast resources to secure something they thought safe is a strategic victory; a tactical victory requires a win on Tuesday.
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betty from boston:
I never thought I’d be saying this. But I can keep quiet no longer. Supporters for Coakley, I believe, were told three weeks ago verbally (no emails or memos will confirm this) that if the race was within three percentage points as determined by our own polls, Acorn ground soldiers with phony identification known as “Election Watch” AARP members would be transported in from Minnesota to “see to it that Martha Coakley made up at least 10,000 votes in key voting places in one week’s time.” I cannot tolerate “cheating” any longer.”
I personally believe that Franken stole the last election.
And that Martha Coakley’s team (without her direction or knowledge) are out to steal another one.
If I have the nerve and or conscience to push “submit”, my career in politics may be changed forever.
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