Rothenberg moves MA Senate race to “Toss-Up;” Obama sends e-mail/video SOS for Coakley
Democratic desperation and other compelling evidence strongly suggest that Democrats may well lose the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat in Tuesday’s special election. Because of this, we are moving our rating of the race from Narrow Advantage for the Incumbent Party to Toss-Up.
Whatever the shortcomings of the Coakley campaign (and they certainly exist), this race has become about change, President Obama and Democratic control of all of the levers of power in Washington, D.C. Brown has “won” the “free media” over the past few days, and if he continues to do so, he will win the election.
My take on Fox & Friends this morning:
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Well, I didn’t get my full reverse-Midas wish for Obama to campaign in-person for Coakley. But Virtual Barack is riding to the rescue:
President Barack Obama’s making a personal pitch for fellow Democrat Martha Coakley in next Tuesday’s Senate election in Massachusetts.
The president is putting out e-mail and Web video in support of Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general, who’s running in the special election to serve the final three years of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s term. The e-mail and video will be sent out Thursday to the Massachusetts distribution list of Organizing for America, the president’s political arm at the Democratic National Committee.
“I am supporting Martha Coakley. As your attorney general, she’s taken on Wall Street schemes, insurance company abuses, and big polluters,” Obama says in the e-mail. “She’ll be your voice, and my ally. And she needs your help.”
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Earlier this week:
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I expect things to get dirty over this weekend.
There.
Fixed it.
From Rothenberg’s mouth to God’s ears.
get dirty over the weekend? look for purple shirt thugs out in force and at the polls maybe? the attack ads are already playing, attacks on reporters are happening, do we see a pattern here??
I think Brown is going to walk away with this now. This is going to make the NJ governor’s race look tight by comparison. Very nice.
Republicans need to use this as the point of the spear and bull rush the Democrats over the cliff. This could be the beginning of a huge Democrat Party collapse over the next three years.
The man with the touch of lead weighs in….excelllent.
I just got a call from Fat Anne Wass, the head of the MA Teachers Association, bemoaning the threat to “Ted Kennedy’s seat” and urging me to vote for Coakley.
I hung up with an expletive. Too bad it was a robo call….
Might not matter. If ACORN can’t steal it for the Dem, the state government has announced it won’t certify a Rep winner for many, many weeks.
I wonder how bad it’ll get by November.
That is the kiss of death for her campaign. Buh-bye Coakley. People are starting to see through Odumbo and his endorsement is not going to help her. I do see hope and change here…the kind we REALLY want.
Brown had better pray that he has never slept with someone outside of his marriage, kicked a cat, or stolen a candybar in his youth. Or inhaled.
Ya gotta give Obambi credit: he can read a teleprompter and keep a straight face at the same time.
Oh, and Obambi: I WILL be “putting on my walking shoes” and voting for BROWN!!
Obama doesn’t want another Corzine moment to add to his list of failures. He pretty much mailed it in on this one, which is his specialty. If he could have gotten away with sending a video that simply said, “present” he would have.
the american people would toss barry out of office if we could. so go barry go, ask for another ally. even democrat working guys recognize not ready for prime time when they see it, and to give this guy another ally in screwing things up is really stupid. maybe in san francisco, but even massachussetts has better sense than that.
“I am supporting Martha Coakley. As your attorney general, she’s coddled child molesters, failed to investigate the heinous “Fist Gate”, sends an innocent man to jail for a crime he never committed, and supports SEIU and in bed with them just like me,” Obama says in the e-mail. “She’ll be a cardboard cutout, and my willing puppet mouthing anything I tell her too. And she needs your help.”
I wonder if Coakley will send Meehan out to “hit” Brown? Or maybe Meehan only assaults reporters…
As your attorney general, she’s taken on Wall Street schemes, insurance company abuses, and big polluters,” Obama says in the e-mail. “She’ll be your voice, and my ally. And she needs your help.”
As Rush just pointed out, Obama and his “allies” are also taking on Medical Equipment manufacturers, who employ a lot of Mass residents.
Not getting my hopes up for a Brown win.
BTW, isn’t the Mass SecState a dimwad for announcing before the election he’ll delay certifying the winner if it is Brown?
BTW, I read McConnell talked him out of it, but Dr. Tom Coburn, who I hope runs for POTUS in 2012 and stood in the way of consent and made the clerk start reading the Sanders amendment, supposedly wanted the entire Reid Senate Marxist Medicine bill read by the clerk.
If the Mass SecState does delay certifying a Brown win, I hope Coburn again refuses to consent to waiving reading the bill.
BTW, I suspect, after all of Mothra’s gaffes, Brown wins a majority of the votes of Massachusetts citizens who are alive and voting only once and legally, the real question, as in Minnesota, where Norm Coelman won the election but lost his seat, is if Brown can win by a big enough margin that even with ACORN type fraud a recount isn’t in order.
Democraps always win recounts when the SecState is a Demonrat. Always. They just keep finding ballots in the funniest places…
I think they would have found something by now, if there is anything to find.
If they do this and the Senate does not seat him like the House did with the winner of NY23 even though that race had not been certified it will only add more ammo for the 2010 mid term elections.
Was this post necessary? You didn’t really say anything.
Or misplacing them when it comes to the military overseas ballots like we here in WA ST saw during the 2004 Gubenatorial election.
Just saying. All the blogs are lit up with excitement that Brown could/will win. I’m not feeling it. Guess I’m just being a downer. Sorry to be splash of cold water but I remember these same posts regarding the NY23 race.
Having served as a poll judge for some time I’ve wondered how the system could be improved – because it’s broken now. I know that millions of conservatives never want to see a national I.D. card. But, our system now allows any number of ways to rig an election. With the Black Panthers intimidating voters, students voting more than once (home and where they go to school), ACORN registering Daffy Duck and Tony Romo, illegals registering on the basis of a driver license, states that threaten not to seat a candidate once they win an election, what’s the answer?
I guess that is understandable. I know he may not win. I just want to hope for a while that maybe, just maybe, we will turn a huge corner with this one. Maybe positive vibes sent toward MA will help. Personally, I do think we have a fighting chance.
What is so terrible about a national ID card? Just wondering. If not that, at least make it mandatory to have a photo ID at the polls and have them checked for every voter. A good cross-reference database so no one votes more than once would be good too. I can’t understand why these things haven’t been done long ago! Without free, honest elections, we are no better than third world countries voting for an unopposed dictator.
What does this do? The members of this distribution list are already drowning in the Kool-Aid and/or brain dead. Come on, Obama… don’t you have the nerve to fly up there and hug your bestest ally? Give her that kiss of death.
Even he doesn’t win (I think he will by 2%), think of all the $$$ the democrats had to pour in here…in MASSACHUSETTS. All that money won’t be around to help other democrats in red states or purplish states. Sure, a moral victory isn’t what we want, but I’ll take that if that’s all we get.
Don’t focus on the NY race, remember what we did in VA and NJ! The NY race was a third party candidate who, within a few weeks, stomped the Republican candidate out of the race and almost won. Scott Brown has been out meeting people and shaking hands (in the cold) for months. Most people didn’t think Christe had a chance, but he won in NJ. And in Virginia, it was supposed to be a toss up, but McDonnell won by nearly 20% of the vote! People love Scott Brown and there’s going to be a massive turn out for him.
He didn’t say he would delay certification if Brown wins. He said he had to wait 10 days so that absentee ballots could be counted, and didn’t say it in the context of a potential Brown win.
Frankly, he CAN’T certify until those votes are counted. People point to Tsongas getting seated by the House in 2007 as hypocrisy. However, in that case he hadn’t certified Tsongas when she was sworn in. He had sent a letter to the House of Representatives saying that the unofficial results indicated no contest. Galvin’s entire point is that Brown, if he won, may not be able to be sworn in because the Senate insists upon actual certification. A similar letter, even if issued, would be worthless per Senate rules.
If you can find examples of the Senate seating someone without having yet been certified then have at them, but that is still not Galvin’s doing or his hypocrisy.
What are the odds Ted Kennedy votes more than once in this election? I have no doubt he will vote at least once.
Well, considering there are at least 54 Ted, Theodore or Edward Kennedys in the state, I’d say you are probably right.
Not smart enough to get the joke chapoutier? I guess you are the joke. It’s hard for liberal pansies like yourself to get much of anything unless it involves a socialist rant or cries of racism. Run along piss ant.
We the People & The Truth will set US Free! Go Scott!!
Wow, I make one little sarcastic comment about your hackneyed attempt at a joke (pssst…the dead Democrats voting gag has been done over and over and over and over) and you have a meltdown!
Settle down, fella, or you yourself won’t make it to November 2010. And if that happens, don’t be surprised to look down from heaven and see your name on a straight line Dem ballot. We’re vindictive that way.
I’m not focusing on the NY23. It’s just that even with the big wins that same day, the media used that race to slam the conservatives and Republicans who were so sure that we would win there.
Believe me, I want a Brown win. I want that message to the libs to be that the direction in which they are leading this country is anathema.
But, I can’t let myself be hopeful.
RE: email and a video – that’s all she gets.
Is it possible that Obama has some inside info that Brown will win and figures his (BHOs) already poor ratings could get worse if he showed up in person? Most of the time, it’s all about ‘him’ anyway.
blah blah blah. chapoutier, nobody cares what you say or think. we figured out a long time ago you’re a GLAD pro unborn baby murdering move on.org huffington sucks NAMBLA supporter. go away dumbass.
I’d suggest some herbal tea and a nice soothing bubble bath, ThatSamIAm.
Chap, if Brown’s lead after the election is greater than the number of absentee ballots sent out, couldn’t he be certified then?
That pretty much proves what most of us thought of you. Shouldn’t you be at the Prop 8 hearing?
No, that means that there’s missing ballots waiting to be found.
Here is the rule (MGL %4-116):
And this only AFTER the Secretary of State has received all of the results sealed and certified from the Town or City Clerks. Apparently federal law says that you have to count absentee ballots up to 10 days after election day.
Be classy, Sam. This isn’t necessary. Chap is a libral, but a good guy. Lighten up.
Okay, this winner of a Mass Senate seat may not have been formally certified by the Mass Sec of State, but he certainly was sworn in and seated within 24 hours of being elected:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/08/26/kennedy_dead_at_77/?page=3
Look at the 10th paragraph!
“Ted Kennedy went on to win 69 percent of the primary vote (on 11/6/62), and then to defeat George C. Lodge, the son of the former Republican senator, in the general election. After his November victory, he was sworn in swiftly, to gain more senatorial seniority. He took the oath from Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson on Nov. 7, 1962.” Wow, that’s 24 hours later!
Chap–you must be the only person who keeps track of how many Kennedy’s there are in Taxa2sh@ts. Your fellow libs must be impressed.
Hey, based on precedent, it is not illegal to place black panthers at the polling places. A big part of “HOPE and Change”
Remember how Al Frankin ‘won’. I recommend if you want Brown to win that you have monitors making sure that all the votes are counted and that only legitimate votes are counted.
Frankin lost in Minnesota but he won in the courts. Be prepared for the same type of thing to happen here if it is close (which I expect).
Marybeth,
Now that is interesting. But it goes back to the issue of whether or not the Senate is sincere in its rules to only seat someone that has been certified. Based on two very recent examples (Burris and Franken) where Reid was pressured to seat them prior to official certification (and in Franken’s case, even after he was certified because the legal challenges continued), I’d say that they have a pretty strong case for consistency.
Hey, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. Are you busy next Tuesday?
happyscraper #27
I see nothing wrong with a national I.D. and it could be used to verify a voter at the local levels as well. But, some states will sign you up to vote on nothing more than a recent electric bill. I’m all in favor to have to present a picture I.D. but that still doesn’t prevent anyone from registering in two different states – voting absentee in one and going to the polls in another.
They’ll be ballpark just under 5% fraudulent votes cast, if I had to guess, all for Mothra Croaky, and I don’t know what the margin is that triggers an automatic recount, which Demonrats always win in big races (Washington and Gregoire, Minnesota and Franken), but Brown needs to win, among living Massachusetts citizens voting only once, but a margin of well over 5% to win the Senate seat.
Mass. has no automatic recount, and the loser can only ask for one if they are within .5%.
Chaps
Happiest news I heard all day.
So next Tuesday is the only chance ACORN and friends have to steal this election.
I guess it really is a toss up.
Wouldn’t an interconnected database from state to state solve that? I think voting should be done by computer anyway. That way, the computer would not allow the vote if you have already voted. And you must slide in your ID card in order to vote. Now, that doesn’t preclude someone having more than one ID card. There are always ways around things, especially if you have an evil, crooked mind and no scruples. Oh, I guess it wouldn’t work after all because we are dealing with liberals.
Good grief. We already have a National ID. It’s called a PASSPORT.
For those who may be interested, and might have noticed that Scott Brown’s wife isn’t in any of his campaign ads, while his lovely daughters are, Wm. Jacobson has Something You Don’t Know About Scott Brown, something many of us who live here have known for a long time – make sure to watch the video.
Maybe the President doesn’t want a filibuster proof Senate? It’s occurred to me that he would be able to deliver on his bi partisan pledge if the Democrats were not autocratic. At this rate they just keep pulling his approval poll numbers down….
On the contrary, I would not only like to see Voter ID cards with bio-data verification but a national database so people can not vote more than once in any state.
cicerokid
Great point! My Passport stays in the safe deposit box so I’d never get to vote
happyscrapper
I’d love to see a secured computer voting system. Heck, if Ebay can do it, why can’t our gubmint?
One of the biggest holes is after the polls close and all those beautiful boxes full of votes head to the counting stations with only one or two people taking them in. Wasn’t it New Mexico that found several alongside the road after Nov 2008′s vote? Those boxes have seals and are numbered. How could they not have missed them? Perhaps they don’t number them? Oregon has a mailed ballot system, just like an absentee ballot. I don’t know how to fix it, but do know it has to be done.
SpeakEasy
I with you, and I don’t understand the resistance. Everytime the subject comes up with friends or relatives they all scream like stuck pigs. I can see 666 emblazoned on their eyeballs. Other than that they are perfectly rational and well educated people.
S/B I’m with you…..too much caffeine.
I was always told that one of the unwritten rules of baseball is: “a tie goes to the runner”
I think we have seen enough recent elections to understand this new unwritten rule of politics: close goes to the Democrat
If Scott Brown doesn’t win by at least 5% he isn’t going to be the next Senator from Massachusetts
Thanks for the link to that.
Ain’t that the truth, brother.
Wow…that is interesting. I like this guy more and more as I learn more about him.
Any chance we could get Bubba Clinton to put in an appearance on behalf of Coakley?
He could spice it up with some off-the-cuff humor about coffee valets. And with his oh-for-forever streak of supporting losing candidates, that would cinch it for Brown.
Since I get email from Organizing for America, I’ll post what I get from them. B^D
ECS
Nothing on the Massachusetts Senate race, yet, but I did get this from President Obama:
Elm Creek –
On Tuesday, a catastrophic earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed, but the death toll — already in the thousands — is climbing fast.
This is the worst earthquake to hit the area in more than 200 years. Entire communities have been ripped apart and as many as 3 million people have been directly affected, including tens of thousands of American citizens who are in Haiti.
Our neighbors in Haiti are racing to confront the enormous devastation — and the OFA community can help.
Click here for more information about essential relief efforts and ways you can help today.
Footage is pouring in of homes collapsing, Haitians carrying injured family members, and hospitals being overrun in what was already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
I have directed my administration to respond with a swift, coordinated, and aggressive effort to save lives. Personnel from the United States and our partners in the international community are on the ground in damaged areas right now, working side by side with the Haitian people. They’re providing much-needed food, water, and sanitation supplies, saving lives and helping local communities start to rebuild.
Despite the fact that we are experiencing tough times here at home, I encourage those who can to reach out and help. It’s in times like these that we must show the kind of compassion and humanity that has defined the best of our national character for generations.
Click here to find out what you can do:
http://my.barackobama.com/Haiti
As this story continues to unfold, I hope you will continue to keep the people of Haiti in your thoughts and prayers, as well as the many Haitian-Americans who have done so much to enrich our country and who are worried about friends and loved ones in this time of need.
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
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He must think I don’t get the news out here in flyoverland.
ECS
Oh yeah, she rocks!
Hugh Hewitt summed up the outcome of this race in the title of one of his books…”if it isn’t close they can’t cheat”…no need to explain who is who, is there?
The current governor of Washington state was finally determined the winner in her 1st race for governor after 3 recounts and a liberal judge, but by god she won…oh yeah, she’s a demorat.
Bubba is due here tommorrow – in Worcester, to be precise. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports:
A report on the radio said that John Kerry is supposed to show up too.
Oh, joy.
The irony of his comments is that those who support Brown are called, “the opponents of change”, all the while he’s arguing for keeping Massachusetts the SAME by electing Coakley and let her do the SAME thing that Kennedy would do. He is such an idiot.