Who will win the senatorial election in Massachusetts ?

@Cycloptichorn,

As Gala said you don't know Mass - it is not unheard of but is very rare...

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@Cycloptichorn,

Also it is almost sacreligious to vote a Republican in Kennedy's seat.

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@Setanta,

coming from a guy who can interpret women's menopause....

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@Linkat,

Linkat wrote:

Also it is almost sacreligious to vote a Republican in Kennedy's seat.

Yeah? The Republicans who live in the State don't seem to think so.

And many of the Dems are busy having a pity-party b/c things have gotten tough and Obama isn't giving them magical pony dust. I'm pretty disgusted with the whole lot of Purity Trolls on the left side of the Dem party right now, and MA voters who sit this one out are idiots.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

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Re: Gala (Post 3880115)
Gala wrote:

I agree with you, that's why I think this Brown guy is going to win. I think the Democrats just took for granted the seat would be theirs, especially considering this Coakley woman was up in the polls by 31% not long ago. She basically threw the election away by making some really dumb remarks.

It gives you an idea of just how good of a campaign Obama ran. Unfortunately, his presidency looks nothing like his campaign, another reason the Dem's will lose.

Well, that's in large part b/c he has had to moderate and make deals to achieve goals once in office of the president - whereas in the campaign, everything is golden and rosy.

I will say that Obama continually warned folks that it would be a long, hard slog and that we would have to take what we could get for some time. I wonder why nobody remembers that part?

Cycloptichorn

I remember him talking about the difficulties we would face as a country in advance and we all know he's in the center of it all, but he has not conducted himself as the change candidate that so many people pulled the lever for.

I think if MLK were alive today he would've talked Obama out of going into Afghanistan and persuaded him to use the money for jobs and other important domestic agendas.

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@Linkat,

I still think they'll commit sacrilege and vote in Brown. Coakley has behaved as if this race was to be handed to her on a platter. If she had any sense she would have never disparaged Fenway Park campaigning cause she'd get cold. What a snob.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Well for the 99.9% of the Democrats it is....

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@Gala,

Yeah - I looked real quick at Boston.com - they are having a sort of unofficial poll where people who have voted can put in their votes and give other sort of crap they saw at the polls. Just for kicks, I looked at the socialist republic of Cambridge and Coakeley was up by about 30 of maybe 50 or so those reporting. Excellent showing in my opinion from Brown considering the Cambridge demographics.

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@Linkat,

Linkat wrote:

Well for the 99.9% of the Democrats it is....

Apparently not sacrilegious enough to actually go and vote for the Dem candidate.

Cycloptichorn

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Intrade: Brown 86, Coakley 20

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@Irishk,

Damn, I tried to put money into an Intrade account a couple of days ago... because of legal issues, it takes a few days to do this.

I would love to buy a $100 of Coakley shares at this price .

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Another far from official polling - my company has a daily poll for fun of course and even though we are an international company (headquartered here in Boston) - they had a poll for who we employees think will win the Senate race - Brown by over 60% right now. Granted I work for the type of company that would be biased in Brown's side.

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@Linkat,

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2 hours 54 min 50 sec ago
Galvin predicts better than 40% voter turnout in Mass. Senate election

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(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Voters are swarming the polls in Massachusetts in a special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy.

The two front-runners in the race are Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown. Joe Kennedy is running as an Independent.

"We have seen in a number of communities lines, people waiting very patiently in the snow," said Secretary of State Bill Galvin.

"Right now our focus is to make sure the polls move slowly. We've had very few problems," said Galvin.

"Things seem to be moving smoothly," said Galvin.

http://necn.com/Boston/Politics/2010/01/19/Galvin-predicts-better-than/1263923008.html

Expecting a tad more then 40% turnout for the vote? I don't care if there's a foot of snow and this is a flukish special election. That's still pretty pathetic.

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Fun to watch the liberals panic here, it must be more fun in Massachusetts.

It could be even more fun later this year when the election rolls around.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Linkat wrote:

Also it is almost sacreligious to vote a Republican in Kennedy's seat.

Yeah? The Republicans who live in the State don't seem to think so.

One of the TV interviewers asked Brown about "Ted Kennedy's seat" and Brown informed him the seat belongs to the people of Massachusetts.

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@Linkat,

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...I looked at the socialist republic of Cambridge and Coakeley was up by about 30 of maybe 50 or so those reporting.

Please. You're more intelligent than mimicking Fox's non-stop crap about Socialism. Cambridge may be full of a lot of wealthy Liberals, but they're Limosine Liberals, not Socialists. If they were Socialists they'd be living in Roxbury.

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@tsarstepan,

You should have seen the primary - it was quite sad how few voters came out.

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40% turnout is pretty heavy for an off-off year election (i.e. no Presidential race, no other races, just this one).
At 1st blush, a relatively large turnout might favor Coakeley after the weekend of Obama trying to fire up the loyal Dems...or, Repubs and Indys may be the ones energized.
I am thinking a 2% Coakeley win.
Isn't their a 3rd candidate who could be a spoiler?

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@Gala,

Gala wrote:

coming from a guy who can interpret women's menopause....

I definitely want to hear more about this (on another thread)

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@High Seas,

Yes he did say that and it is so true. However, many die hard Democrats do not think so - I think they would have pulled out poor Ted's cold body and had it sat there today if they could.

Another funny thing - after Brown said this in one of the debates - he clarified it to the individual asking the question about Ted Kennedy's seat and Brown said - with all due respect it is not Ted Kennedy's seat, it is not the Democrat seat, it is the people's seat. I have to admit that was a nice line. Not soon after Brown said it - there was an advertisement by Vicki Kennedy in which she used Brown's line (for Martha of course).

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