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RBInMaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:50 PM
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All this MSM BS about "Coakley In Trouble" yadayada BS ! She is well ahead in most polls, AND if
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 06:51 PM by RBInMaine
they get their turnout machine into high gear and get the folks out, they WIN. Period, end of story. So enough of all this doom and gloom bullshit, and get out there and put that asshole Brown back in his right wing pickup truck where he belongs.
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:51 PM
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1. I agree - Coakley will win
Unless the Mass Dem machine has a major seizure or something.
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:52 PM
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2. I agree too.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:53 PM
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3. Perhaps the reporting will actually result in greater lefty turnout. Instead of feeling demoralized,
they turn out in droves to shore up the vote and make sure Ted's seat doesn't pass to a RWer.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:06 PM
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10. Some of the left is already demoralized and the right wingers are fired up.
I imagine it must get hard when you are constantly told that you have no other choice than to vote for the Democrat because where else could you go?

Of course the left would probably turn out if they are made the same promises they are used to hearing, words.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:09 PM
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11. Yeah, the "you have nowhere else to go" really chaps my hide. But I still tend
to vote for the Dem if it looks like (s)he is in trouble. Otherwise, I find somewhere else to go like the Greens or Socialists. Even if it's just a protest vote, I find it satisfying.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:38 PM
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16. It the GOP were to move to the left and to compromise and cooperate with Democrats,
then the Teabagger types would dump them like yesterdays garbage to teach them that they cannot take their vote for granted, yet the left of the Democrats are supposed and expected to support their party no matter what.

(The Republican party would have to make a hard left move just to get to the middle of their own side of the political spectrum, but I think the GOP has learned that it cannot take the far right of its party for granted.)
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:43 PM
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19. And that is why the GOP has been losing lately. You can't win without
at least some support from the center and Independents.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:55 PM
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4. Won't a Coakly win demonstrate how wrong the media was?
O think she will win too, and I've been trying to understand why the media would be doing this. Could it be to slam the Teabaggers & their efforts to take over?
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:02 PM
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6. It's drama and it's ratings.
The media could care less who wins. They like a story with drama. And this also includes a Kennedy. Wow. Double the excitement.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:05 PM
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8. If there wasn't a real chance Brown could win, Obama wouldn't be making
the trip.
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RBInMaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 06:57 PM
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5. Coakley is a chance to give the corporate MSM and the TeaBagges a nice hot shit sandwich.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:46 PM
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22. And not just them, most of the US ruling elites need a good hot shit taco. nt
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Mr_Grant Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:03 PM
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7. *Neeeighhh*
The MSM just need a horserace to boost ratings/readership.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:06 PM
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9. Irish Central: Polls Are Wrong,Coakley Will Easily Win TK Seat
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/polls-are-wrong-coakley-will-easily-win-kennedy-seat-in-mass-81717677.html

The pundits are trying to say that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will lose the race against Republican Scott Brown on Tuesday.

I'll eat my hat if she does.

Some polls are showing Brown ahead but when you analyze them the fault line becomes clear. They over sample independents.

This is a special election remember when only the hardest of the hard core come out to vote. Independents are notorious for staying home.If this was a broader national election then Coakley would be in trouble.

The hard core Democratic vote however, will turn out as they always do in the Kennedy state.They are not about to let a Republican take over the late Ted's seat.

Coakley has run a horrible campaign, completely underestimating the violent mood of change out there and her opponent.

Yet she will still win easily in my opinion because the core vote is what will count.

I have a nice Irish cap that might be delicious with salt and onions if I'm wrong!

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BlueState Donating Member (370 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:31 PM
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24. Thanks for that link.
I believe 100% in what this guy is saying. On top of that, these reports of the seat being in danger to a republican only increase the resolve of the hard core Democratic voteres.
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:13 PM
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12. Democratic Voters disappointed in Shit Healthcare Bill
They won't show up.
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RBInMaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:42 PM
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18. Single-issue-ness can't be more full of STUPID. And HCR is just a start, not an end.
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 07:43 PM by RBInMaine
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PM Martin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:47 PM
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28. My understanding is that the Supreme Court is at stake too.
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mstinamotorcity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:14 PM
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13. This is to discourage
voter turnout in both ways.The first is thinking that the election is in the bag by hyping up the polls from majority districts.Which reminds me got to go check in at five thirty eight.com.Their polls are closer to the truth.Second they have already saturated districts where they thought they could gain votes to try and tip the scales. If Democratic voters think that their candidate is ahead because of polls then some of them may stay home.Which is what repugs are counting on.Dems this is the time not to give up.Remember you have a lot of power around you.All those family.friends,grown voting children,the same people who were registered to vote in 2008 should still be good.Go get those same people for the cause.Remind them of the Democratic agenda.Remind them of what Dubya/Shooter did to this country.Look at the cascading effect that their administration had on our country.Remind them that we still have the rest of the stimulus to distribute and that the very threads of Health Care Reform is hanging in the balance.We come to far to turn around.The only way to move forward and get rid of the road blocks like Blue dogs and repugs is to cast a ballot.A lot of people complain about what it is our President doesn't do then it is up to us to make sure that he can do the things that we want, with no obstacles in his way.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:20 PM
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14. The media always has to have a this and a that....
White spy vs. black spy...

The modern media has no other way to cover any story...
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:25 PM
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15. Can You Point To Any Polls Where She's Ahead
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 07:25 PM by MannyGoldstein
by more than the margin of error?

The point is that Mass has voted for Republicans before, but not obviously-crazy ones. Gov. Weld was a RINO, and Romney ran to the left of Kennedy(!) before turning into a pile of poop.

Brown is a nut-job Republican, and he's doing well - because we're sick of being lied to and preyed upon by elected Democrats.

I happen to think Coakley will win: but she'll turn around an $%&# the working class like the rest of them do.
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RBInMaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:40 PM
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17. Last weekend's Globe had her way up. Research2000 had her up by 8 yesterday.
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 07:41 PM by RBInMaine
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quiller4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 11:14 PM
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30. Boston Globe poll conducted by UNH up by 15, n/t
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:44 PM
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20. Again---MASSIVE turnout at the rally today.
Lots of others out on the streets in front of the hotel after the rally. She'll win it.
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RBInMaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:45 PM
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21. They need to work the phones and the streets BIGTIME. It is all about TURNOUT !
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 07:48 PM
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23. They made us fill out forms to use as a ticket to get in
The forms asked for address, phone & email info. By the time we got home, they'd already left a phone message asking us to volunteer over the weekend.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:35 PM
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26. Sounds like a nifty bit of organization . . . best hold on to that --!! Wow!
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:35 PM
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25. Thanks . . . speculating cover up for a GOP steal . . .
Was just questioning elsewhere if corporate press and polls are lying

-- and the beginning of the take off for a right wing steal?

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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:37 PM
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27. My biggest hope is a double digit win
If Obama stumps and she wins by double digits, the GOP sinks faster than a ten pound ingot of lead in Lake Michigan.
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janet118 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 11:00 PM
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29. Ironically, all the poll stuff may get the Coakley vote out . . .
I sure hope so. The wing nuts are drooling like mastiffs over getting their pretty boy puppet into the Senate. Coakley's campaign was horrendous but it seems like the grown-ups have finally taken over. I hope she wins by a healthy margin to make the tea baggers go back to their lairs until the Patrick re-election campaign brings them out again. They own talk radio, letters to the editor, and the national media. I heard MSNBC's Chuckie Todd tell the baggers that the only way for them to win is to get out on Tuesday and beat the Democratic machine. Nice, Chuckie.

If you live near Plymouth MA, go here tomorrow AM and make Brown look at Coakley signs
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 11:23 PM
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31. Of course, if the machines rig the vote, they will need to have close polls to make it
seem plausible.
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ElmoBlatz Donating Member (149 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 11:26 PM
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32. Democrats own the Government in Mass
If they allow machines to rig the vote, they don't deserve to be in charge.
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