Ted Kennedy's seat

[Chris Grieb]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/what-to-watch-for-in-the-massa.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

There are also 113,000 + dead people in Massachusetts that are still unpurged from the voting rolls.

Adam

Several people I know in FaceBook say they may have been registered in Massachusetts at one time and wondered if they still are. I told if they are they will vote for Cokeley.

[Brant Gaede]

http://voices.washin...c=nl_pmpolitics

There are also 113,000 + dead people in Massachusetts that are still unpurged from the voting rolls.

Adam

Several people I know in FaceBook say they may have been registered in Massachusetts at one time and wondered if they still are. I told if they are they will vote for Cokeley.

How about ten or even a hundred times vote for C.?

--Brant

the wonderful marvel of electronic voting--you only need one person fiddling with the results instead of hundreds

[Selene]

I love technology...

this is a live stream from Scott Brown's headquarters!!!!

http://73wire.com/

[BaalChatzaf]

http://voices.washin...c=nl_pmpolitics

There are also 113,000 + dead people in Massachusetts that are still unpurged from the voting rolls.

Adam

Massachusetts, where the dead vote early and often.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Peter]

Robert Tracinski on TV Tonight

Robert Tracinski is scheduled to appear tonight, Tuesday, January 19, between 7:00 and 7:30 pm Eastern Time, on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" to discuss the significance of the Massachusetts special election.

Peter Taylor

[Peter]

Adam, that live feed was awesome.

I saw Brown's Cosmo centerfold today. Anna Quinlan was commenting on the hunk factor. Christ that guy is and was good looking. Barny Frank might even vote for him for a sniff.

Hopefully, CNBC's Kudlow Report will keep Tracinski on at 7:30 tonight. I just turned to it.

Fingers crossed, Peter

[Selene]

Adam, that live feed was awesome.

I saw Brown's Cosmo centerfold today. Anna Quinlan was commenting on the hunk factor. Christ that guy is and was good looking. Barny Frank might even vote for him for a sniff.

Hopefully, CNBC's Kudlow Report will keep Tracinski on at 7:30 tonight. I just turned to it.

Fingers crossed, Peter

Thanks Peter. This is what I am hoping is the mistake the Democratic machine is making in Boston.

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:32 AM PST

Hoping to salvage Martha Coakley's campaign, the Dems are working hard to turn out the Democratic vote. But, as Glenn Thrush of Politico reports, their get-out-the-vote operation may be a two-edged sword:

A Democratic operative familiar with Martha Coakley and the DSCC's massive get-out-the-vote operation says that outreach workers in and around Boston have been stunned by the number of Democrats and Obama supporters who are waving them off, saying they'll vote for Scott Brown.

Adam

[Selene]

If this is true, this could be the first possible Waterloo for this Juggernaut:

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/01/annotating_coakleys_excyses.php

I love an arrogant opponent, I cause them to lose, lol.

Adam

[Selene]

Dare we begin to hope...

one of the first bell weathers of an upset is if Scott is close after the first large wave of votes - Drudge has him at 280,000 to 248,000 - so this is basically incredible.

Adam

[Selene]

YES Coked up Oakley Concedes this is a great great day

Edited January 20, 2010 by Selene

[Brant Gaede]

The witch is dead!

The big, bad witch is dead!

--Brant

[Selene]

The witch is dead!

The big, bad witch is dead!

--Brant

This was a piece of political karmic collision that took an incredible sequence of events. Remember, these idiot Democrats in Massachusetts helped set this up back in 2004 because they thought Kerry was going to be President and they did not want Romney to appoint a non Democrat.

Here we are five (5) years later and Deval Patrick could have appointed a replacement. Plus O'biwan the diminishing being the marxist he is and one of the worse campaigns in history.

Adam

[9thdoctor]

A month or two ago you would never have believed it.

Time to celebrate, even get sauced!

[Selene]

<h5 class="blog-date">Here is the first break in the Senate dam, ex Reagan appointee, Virginia, military with a son in Iraq possibly Afghanistan now, not sure.</h5>Also, there was talk by Congressman Weiner and Barney Frank and Vandenhouval of the Nation that the filibuster is anti-democratic and needs to be eliminated.

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</h5><h5 class="blog-date">January 19, 2010</h5>

Categories:

• Healthcare

On to Plan C

Senator Jim Webb puts out a statement that puts the notion of a quick Senate vote out of reach and pretty much makes a certification fight moot:

In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process. It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders. To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated.

And good luck getting Lieberman to vote for cloture this week anyway.

Posted by Ben Smith 09:47 PM

[Alfonso Jones]

Amazing, and something to be happy about!!!

Perhaps Obamacare is really dead in the water...

Bill P

[Selene]

Bill:

For anyone to realize how lost the Republicans are, this is not their victory at all. This is potentially the beginning of a strong independent voter influence. Independents are the largest voting block in Mass.

Brown is the first non Democrat other than the self declared socialist Bernie Sanders in the entire North Eastern Federal representation to Washington.

Brown took approximately 62+ % of the independent vote. He also took 22% + of the Democratic voters.

This is the first Republican Senate win since 2004!

If I had bet you in 2004 that it would be five (5) years before another Rep. Senator would be elected and it would be in Mass. and that it would be the Kennedy seat, you would have called 911 and done an intervention.

This is not a Republican victory and if they think it is they will be making another grave mistake.

As an aside, there was a lonely sign in the outer reaches of Mass. that simple said Scott Brown...Mary Jo Kopechne's revenge. How poignant.

Adam

[Alfonso Jones]

Bill:

For anyone to realize how lost the Republicans are, this is not their victory at all. This is potentially the beginning of a strong independent voter influence. Independents are the largest voting block in Mass.

Brown is the first non Democrat other than the self declared socialist Bernie Sanders in the entire North Eastern Federal representation to Washington.

Brown took approximately 62+ % of the independent vote. He also took 22% + of the Democratic voters.

This is the first Republican Senate win since 2004!

If I had bet you in 2004 that it would be five (5) years before another Rep. Senator would be elected and it would be in Mass. and that it would be the Kennedy seat, you would have called 911 and done an intervention.

This is not a Republican victory and if they think it is they will be making another grave mistake.

As an aside, there was a lonely sign in the outer reaches of Mass. that simple said Scott Brown...Mary Jo Kopechne's revenge. How poignant.

Adam

Adam -

I agree (Did I write something which suggested I thought it was a Republican victory?)!

It is a loss for the Democrats, but that's not the same thing as a win for the Republicans. A point on which many will surely be confused.

Bill P

[Selene]

Bill:

For anyone to realize how lost the Republicans are, this is not their victory at all. This is potentially the beginning of a strong independent voter influence. Independents are the largest voting block in Mass.

Brown is the first non Democrat other than the self declared socialist Bernie Sanders in the entire North Eastern Federal representation to Washington.

Brown took approximately 62+ % of the independent vote. He also took 22% + of the Democratic voters.

This is the first Republican Senate win since 2004!

If I had bet you in 2004 that it would be five (5) years before another Rep. Senator would be elected and it would be in Mass. and that it would be the Kennedy seat, you would have called 911 and done an intervention.

This is not a Republican victory and if they think it is they will be making another grave mistake.

As an aside, there was a lonely sign in the outer reaches of Mass. that simple said Scott Brown...Mary Jo Kopechne's revenge. How poignant.

Adam

Adam -

I agree (Did I write something which suggested I thought it was a Republican victory?)!

It is a loss for the Democrats, but that's not the same thing as a win for the Republicans. A point on which many will surely be confused.

Bill P

Lol - no nothing you wrote, I just invested a lot of effort in that Mass. situation. That would have been a nice campaign to get paid to be in. I did what I could through my personal networks.

This was truly a national election.

Adam

[Chris Grieb]

If this is true, this could be the first possible Waterloo for this Juggernaut:

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/01/annotating_coakleys_excyses.php

I love an arrogant opponent, I cause them to lose, lol.

Adam

See post on Brown wins.

[Peter]

I just received a call from the RNC asking me if I would contribute the last amount again? Seriously, the spiel was first class. I said yes, but I don't get my next Social Security check from President Obama, until the forth Wednesday of each month. That cracked her up. But then I told her I consider myself a Tea Party Supporter first, and a Libertarian Republican second. And, if Michael Steele shows disrespect for Rush one more time, I will give nothing. She transfered me to a supervisor for confirmation, and I said the same to her. The supervisor could barely talk, she was quite hoarse. They both sounded very optimistic. Ka-ching!

Semper cogitans fidele,

Peter Taylor

[Selene]

I just received a call from the RNC asking me if I would contribute the last amount again? Seriously, the spiel was first class. I said yes, but I don't get my next Social Security check from President Obama, until the forth Wednesday of each month. That cracked her up. But then I told her I consider myself a Tea Party Supporter first, and a Libertarian Republican second. And, if Michael Steele shows disrespect for Rush one more time, I will give nothing. She transfered me to a supervisor for confirmation, and I said the same to her. The supervisor could barely talk, she was quite hoarse. They both sounded very optimistic. Ka-ching!

Semper cogitans fidele,

Peter Taylor

Peter:

I have never given a major political party a single penny. I would love to convince you of the same.

Adam

[Alfonso Jones]

I just received a call from the RNC asking me if I would contribute the last amount again? Seriously, the spiel was first class. I said yes, but I don't get my next Social Security check from President Obama, until the forth Wednesday of each month. That cracked her up. But then I told her I consider myself a Tea Party Supporter first, and a Libertarian Republican second. And, if Michael Steele shows disrespect for Rush one more time, I will give nothing. She transfered me to a supervisor for confirmation, and I said the same to her. The supervisor could barely talk, she was quite hoarse. They both sounded very optimistic. Ka-ching!

Semper cogitans fidele,

Peter Taylor

Peter:

I have never given a major political party a single penny. I would love to convince you of the same.

Adam

Adam -

Think outside the box. Type outside the box.

Bill P (smiling)

[Selene]

I just received a call from the RNC asking me if I would contribute the last amount again? Seriously, the spiel was first class. I said yes, but I don't get my next Social Security check from President Obama, until the forth Wednesday of each month. That cracked her up. But then I told her I consider myself a Tea Party Supporter first, and a Libertarian Republican second. And, if Michael Steele shows disrespect for Rush one more time, I will give nothing. She transfered me to a supervisor for confirmation, and I said the same to her. The supervisor could barely talk, she was quite hoarse. They both sounded very optimistic. Ka-ching!

Semper cogitans fidele,

Peter Taylor

Peter:

I have never given a major political party a single penny. I would love to convince you of the same.

Adam

Adam -

Think outside the box. Type outside the box.

Bill P (smiling)

[Selene]

When I saw the numbers at about the 20% of precincts reporting and they exceeded all but the last Presidential which O'biwan the diminished won Mass. by 28% and 3 million + turned out, I knew we were in for a special evening. Never realized that it would be a landslide by special election percentages 52% to 47% Kennedy the Libertarian 1%. Stunning and miraculous day.

"Occasional contributor Joel Mowbray (jdmowbra@erols.com) writes to comment on the Massachusetts election:

Turns out that the "special election" was special in one more way. Yesterday's voting tally shattered all turnout predictions, not just because the race was considered a fait accompli a mere month ago, but for the simple fact that elections for one office rarely generate strong turnout.

To give some perspective on just how motivated Massachusetts voters were, consider that turnout was higher than in 2006, when Sen. Ted Kennedy last won re-election. In that contest, 2.16 million people voted, versus yesterday's still-unofficial figure of 2.25 million.

Despite the fact that there were elections at all levels in 2006 -- from governor to Congress to local races -- critics would be correct in noting that there was no battle royale to excite voters.

For a better comparison to a non-presidential year -- when turnout everywhere is always significantly higher -- 2002 had a red-hot gubernatorial contest, ultimately won by Mitt Romney. Just under 2.2 million people voted. (The 2008 election had a turnout of 3.05 million.)

Making this even more incredible is that only one candidate had all the trappings of a fancy get-out-the-vote effort with the luxury of focusing on "reliable" supporters. That, of course, would be the loser, Martha Coakley. Considering that her poll numbers were cratering on the eve of the election, though, her 47% showing amidst such heavy turnout actually proves that she

built a very solid get-out-the-vote effort.

Registered Republicans number a scant 12% in Massachusetts, meaning that Brown couldn't simply target those most likely to support him. He needed independents and registered Democrats to have a burning desire to go to the polls and vote Brown.

Thanks to the Democrats' unwillingness to slow down in the face of public opposition, Brown got what he needed to become Senate Republican number 41."

Adam

[Robert Campbell]

I read that at the end Coakley had 3500 people working for her campaign, and Brown had 500.

Quite a story.

I gave the Brown campaign something.

Meanwhile, I've always transferred communications from the Republican National Committee straight to the trash—a policy I have no intention of changing.

Robert Campbell

PS. If I were Barack Obama, I'd forswear campaigning for other Democrats, assuming any are foolish enough to ask.