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Originally Posted by Craig
As I said, I don't really care who wins american elections, but I very much doubt this type of nonsense is going to influence many people; although it may influence small numbers at each lunatic fringe (left and right) who normally wouldn't bother to vote.
I do understand the political strategy in MA; when the republican candidate comes fairly close and the libertarian takes a few percent in a traditionally democratic state, the conservative talking heads will declare victory and say that they would have actually won a two-way race, etc. The current "news" stories are just prep for that spin. We could probably both write the fox story for Wednesday and come very close to their actual story (jz would need help with the spelling). This isn't rocket science, and fox isn't that clever.
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As much as anyone who is only a spectator can!
The story about this Massachusetts special election is that voters who in the last election cast their lot with the HopeeChangee’s have now decided in significant numbers to at this opportunity to bite this same apple now to avoid the worm ridden portion and take their chance on a seemingly less blemished side.
Obama carried the Nov 08 election here in MA by 60+%, despite the Killer Ted affection and nostalgia Martha Coakley will be lucky to come within 10% of Obama’s numbers only fifteen months ago. Massachusetts electorate roughly has about ½ registered as independents, 3/8 registered democrats and 1/8 registered republicans. Recent polling of likely voters shows 17% of registered democrats voting for Scott Brown!
This will be a repeat of exactly what happened in Virginia and New Jersey former Obama voters at their next opportunity casting their votes with someone other than the designated Obama team player.
Here in Massachusetts the electorate has been twice burned by David Axelrod products, the present Governor Deval Patrick will likely be reelected but only because he’ll win the three way competition with the 34% needed, a virtually unknown republican candidate and the former democrat State Treasurer Tim Cahill is challenging his own party’s sitting incumbent Governor and polling close behind him.
The Dear Leader is scheduled to appear on Coakley’s behalf on Sunday presumably, which can be interpreted a number of ways. Maybe nation democrats are desperate, maybe they think Coakley will win and it will then be attributable to Obama’s magic, my personal belief is that they are desperate and Obama has to demonstrate to those lined up on the plank that he will do what he can to save them even if it’s a futile effort.
As an anecdotal story, I live on Cape Cod Kennedy Country, solid moon bat psycho liberal, my neighbors are Robert Jay Lifton and Howard Zinn and his son Jeff, my kids went to a private school run by the former president of the Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Zinn and Noam Chomsky regularly speak on weekends at the public library.
About three weeks ago I bought 1000 Scott Brown for US Senate signs and they where made available to anyone who wanted them, the entire 1000 signs where picked up by people who took the time and made the effort to drive to get them, all gone in less than eight hours! A week later I bought a second thousand and they where similarly distributed in less than five hours! The only announcement was a mention of the availability at a certain place and time on a local radio station both times. Sign don’t vote but people making these kinds of efforts do and the demand has only been increasing. On the streets here its probably 15 or 20 to 1 Brown signs vs. Coakley signs if you can even find Coakley signs!
For the past month there have been so many people wanting to volunteer at Browns Hyannis Campaign office people are limited to 3 hours once a week chosen by lottery and you’ve got to wait until everyone has a chance to do it a second time, no one gets a second opportunity for weeks now!
This is in communities where you can go to the supermarket on any given day and find a dozens if not hundreds of vehicles not only with Obama/Biden bumper stickers, but Kerry/Edwards and Gore/ Lieberman aplenty. These people wear their liberal screed as a badge of honor. The only bumper stickers that outnumber these types are the one’s that express hatred for Bush/ Cheney and all things GOP/Conservative/religious/Palin!
So the real story is not that a republican wins/might have won but for/etc. the real story is the electorate is dissatisfied with the fraud they we sold the last time around and while they might be fooled again by the new guy/gal they aren’t being fooled again by the last guy, here or almost anywhere else from the results on record! It will be interesting to see what effects these portents of election futures will have on the Blanche Lincolns in Arkansas who face reelection in this year and the conservative democrats in red districts across the country. Will they fall on their swords in the name of Transformational Change or will they act in their own self interest and save their own careers! You know at least Arlen Specter is sitting there these days wondering in the same tenor and tone “My God What Have I Done!” ala’ David Byrne, Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads.
I posted this in another thread regarding the politics of healthcare also!