Did Coakley pay tribute to Martin Luther Vandross today?

Going to buy as many cases of Red Bull as I can - tomorrow is going to be along day and night and I don't want to miss a minute of it!!!

via Hot Air: ABC reports Coatley's overnight internals have her UP by 2 this morning!

I swore after the last Bush election I was off politics forever, now I remember why!!!

I dunno gang. Everyone here is fired up, but unless Brown has something like a 60-40 lead then you'd better watch out. The dems are going to pull out all the stops. If it's even close, then you might as well forget it.

Now I'm hoping I'm wrong. I want to be wrong.

But as I've said before, bet with your head, not your heart. If this thing goes into overtime...it's over.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!!!!!  Posted by: Jan Brady  LOL

I love the momentum that is building for Scott Brown. Americans are fed up and they're not going to take it anymore. http://bit.ly/835yyj  Pray for a miracle!

My Prediction - He is going to win this thang :-)

Beware of overconfidence, but had to share this striking paragraph from Pollster. For what it's worth, Democratic sources are telling ABC that Coakley's internals showed her up by 2 last night.

If you do that, we get a 8.8 point Brown lead.

This morning, WEEI sports radio host Gerry Callahan said someone had stuck a Coakley sign in his yard which he promptly removed and destroyed.

Are they that desperate that they have to put lawn signs up in the middle of the night?  You bet.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 18, 2010 10:32 AM (E+CJc)

Especially in a snowstorm like we are having right now.

 Granny J lives in Amherst and of course I've already voted. I was at a wedding reception Saturday and started talking about Scott Brown after a few drinks. I talked about my enthusiasm for him, and my distain for all things Obama. I got into a shouting match with this man. We almost came to blows.

My husband told me later that he was the novelist John Katzenbach, son of Nickolas Katzenbach, former Attorney General! LOL

Don't mess with Granny!

Posted by: loppyd at January 18, 2010 10:30 AM (UJIeT)

Thank you for your continuing on-the-ground report, and others doing the same.

Very much appreciated.

I'm imagining what will emerge from Katie Couric's head when it asplode tomorrow.

I'm thinking: straw, ju-ju-bees, and Chrissy Tingle spittle.

Posted by: Mal at January 18, 2010 10:40 AM (Z+qzA)

Dude, I'm supporting Biden in 2010.

My husband told me later that he was the novelist John Katzenbach, son of Nickolas Katzenbach, former Attorney General! LOL

Don't mess with Granny!

A vote for Martha is a vote to keep the little people in their places. Don't forget to vote!

This message brought to you be The Committee to Elect Marcia Coakley.

Posted by: tank at January 18, 2010 10:33 AM (CW29u)

It's break your back wet snow up here.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 18, 2010 10:45 AM (E+CJc)

The question is whether the electorate can keep up this level of interest all the way to Nov. There is nothing that can help us more then a self-educated, motivated electorate, as the average political view in America is much closer to the right then the left.

But it is so easy to say to hell with it and either not vote, or vote for whoever the media tells you is the better candidate - as for example the electorate did in 2008...

Posted by: ford at January 18, 2010 10:48 AM (Ki7fm)

What part of the state are you in?

Dating myself but remember when Nixon won and some chick from NYC elite asked how he could have won?

"How could Scott Brown have won?  I don't know anyone who voted for him?"

Hope the rain turns to a lovely wintry mix - keep the sky gray and depressing and perhaps more Marcia voters will stay away from the polls.

Marge! Marge! Marge!

It has to be under 1% (which is about 21,000 votes) to have a legitimate chance to steal it. Try sticking 21,000 votes in your car's trunk. Under 1% you have a legitimate chance of fraud. Over 1% and your chances are greatly reduced.

Now, this is not to say I think the system is perfect and there is not any flaws. But, lets be a little realistic around here, it isn't going to have to be 6 or 8 or 10 or 15% range to win.

It keeps being said that this election is a backlash about Obamacare, but maybe, just maybe, it's a backlash about socializing government in ad infinitum ways. Especially for those with Masscare.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 18, 2010 10:49 AM (E+CJc)

This is certainly one area in which Clinton had Obama beat. Slick Willie was arrogant, but in a completely different way. 

Remember when Bill Clinton charmed Newt and Kasich? The only people Obama can charm are those who are looking for someone to kneel too...

As for Katrina/Haiti, I don't think it will. The Katrina/NOLA outrage at Bush was a media creation and the media will not turn on Obama for Haiti. 

I need some help. I am working only 1/2 a day today so I can spend the rest phone banking Scott. I have already donated $$, and will be phone banking once I get home.

Is there anything else I can do?  the MA voters on this board, do the Brown campaign people need any food/supplies that I can send their way from the local shops? (if so, can you post the info)

I just want to do everything I can. 

Winston Smith

My office is in NBPT.  Lots of Brown signs in unexpected places!

When my husband went to vote in the primary and told the little old lady at the precinct he wanted a Republican ballot she asked him if he was sure.  When he told her he was quite sure she said "but you seem so nice."  I told him to file a complaint, but he was afraid we'd get put on some hack revenge list. 

Is there anything else I can do?  the MA voters on this board, do the Brown campaign people need any food/supplies that I can send their way from the local shops? (if so, can you post the info)

I just want to do everything I can. 

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at January 18, 2010 11:02 AM (ACkhT)

Don't go to the polls alone. 

And thank you for all of your help!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2010 10:48 AM (bgcml)

There will be a series of non-stop Tea Party-like events all the way up to Nov.

The anger of common folks will not be dimished, even with a Brown win.  Because I KNOW the dems will do even more stoopid tricks.

Posted by: Dang Straights at January 18, 2010 10:52 AM (fx8sm)

Actually, that's an interesting point. A large part of the anti-Obama sentiment is driven by what he and his allies have done to the economy.

The smartest thing they could do would be to shelve Obamacare, Cap N' Tax, and the rest and offer off a package of tax cuts and deficit reduction via spending cuts. Which is, ironically, what Obama campaigned on.

Brown knocks Coakley for politcking at MLK breakfast

http://tinyurl.com/ykg8vyy

This is bullshit!

Coakley was invited by event organizers to speak at the Hynes Convention Center breakfast. Brown sat in the crowd with supporters. He said he was not invited to speak.

“We are in the middle of a very close election. I know that people are frustrated. They’re angry. They may be focusing that in many different ways,” Coakley said during her remarks.

“Do not forget they were problems that were not created by, but inherited by our president Barack Obama,” Coakley said.

There's a whole lot of really pissed-off people out there, not just conservatives.  I don't see it lagging between now and the 2010's.  In fact it seems to be getting larger and better organized against the socialists.

I think Dang Straights is right.  People I know who have never been interested in politics are connecting talking, debating, connecting the dots. 

When is lurch up for re-election? 

Brown's reaction:

“I certainly didn’t realize that this was a rally for Martha,” said Brown. “I think it’s inappropriate to ask for people’s votes when they’re trying to remember Martin Luther King Jr.”

Posted by: loppyd at January 18, 2010 11:09 AM (UJIeT)

this is just going to piss off even more people!

Hot coffee spewing out from my nose is painful but in a good way.

Posted by: pep at January 18, 2010 11:10 AM (0K3p3)

Do you speak with a necro dialect?

This is the kind of political stupidity it takes for a Democrat to lose a Senate race in Massachusetts. You canÂ’t just run a weak campaign, or commit a gaffe or two. YouÂ’ve got to run an absolute disaster of a campaign to lose to a Republican here.

And thatÂ’s what Coakley delivered. It wasnÂ’t the Hindenburg or the Titanic. It was the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.

Thanks Tami @ 17, went to and read it - comforting

...need a break - turning into an eeyore

Posted by: hutch1200 at January 18, 2010 11:17 AM (Ytuj3)

I was reading a leftie forum about Ritter, and they seem to think it is a conspiracy. That darn Bush is really pretty amazing. He got Ritter to try and pick up an underage girl back in 2003? and then gave him a slap on the wrist for it, um, because. And now, even out of office he'd mind controlling the police to go after poor innocent Ritter again.

Granny - that's exactly what I said to die-hard dems in my family  when they said Well who is Scott Brown, what's his experience to be Senator.

I asked if they asked that question about BO before they voted for him to be the President ! 

... cue the crickets.   No response - let's talk about something else.

you can't fix stupid.

Ranba Ral,

Well nobody can say the Necrotic America constituency isn't well represented. Martha Coakley is a dead woman walking, politically that is.

122 Re my comment at 120:

Amateur grammarians please forgive my ending the last sentence with a preposition.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. -- Winston Churchill.

Posted by: someone2 at January 18, 2010 11:22 AM (N368I)

Brown responded with this nice smackdown:

“Mr. President, unfortunately in this economy, not everybody can buy a truck,” Brown said in a statement. “My goal is to change that by cutting spending, lowering taxes and letting people keep more of their own money.”

#132:

Dixie Carter on Designing Women:

"Where are you from?"

Snootty pants somebody:

"I'm from a place where we don't end sentences with a preposition."

Dixie Carter:

"Oh. Then, where are you from, Bitch?"

I have a good friend who is involved with the Conn. Tea Party. They took a bus to MA for this Scott Brown rally. You have got to see the video. He said there were thousands there for Scott Brown, inside and outside in the streets.

Mechanics Hall Worcester MA Jan. 17, 2010

http://tinyurl.com/ycgzsgj

Coakley up by only 2%?  Jeebers, their ballot counterfeiting operation must have been down over the weekend.

Personally, I'm nostalgic for the days when we had a real, functioning elective democracy (except, of course, in places like Cook County, Ill, and Louisiana.)

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2010 10:50 AM (Xsi7M)

It's been shown over and over again that bad weather=Dem voters stay home. That probably has some correlation with the demographics of the typical dem voter so I don't know that this will apply in Massachusettes with it being such a heavily blue state.

Posted by: Coakley's smarter sister at January 18, 2010 11:30 AM (m2CN7)

I agree, we should really stop electing brown people.

Posted by: Coakley's smarter sister at January 18, 2010 11:30 AM (m2CN7)

Do you speak with a necro dialect?
Why yes, I do.

161 Claims from Left Moonbatistan that the Taliban somehow coordinated this attack with the Brown campaign in 5... 4... 3...

Posted by: DocJ at January 18, 2010 11:36 AM (dt6br)

Remember how Spanish voters reacted to their train bombing, after all...

One liberal Democrat, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.), said many lawmakers have decided that, if she loses, the party would have no choice but to cram a plan through as quickly as possible, while working to delay Mr. Brown's arrival to the Senate.

"We're going to have to finish this bill and then stall the swearing-in as long as possible," Mr. Weiner said. "That's our strategy, a hurry-up-and-stall strategy."

How very Democratic of him.

Totally unbiased CNN confidently calls the race: http://tinyurl.com/ydfcuta

FOR BROWN!

mrp @ 111: thanx for the globe tip, great read - i hijacked this from one of the commenters and thought if there are any of THOSE gun totin, God fearing, irrelevent rednecks out there driving trucks that any one can buy, you might consider this:

Totally unbiased CNN confidently calls the race: http://tinyurl.com/ydfcuta

Posted by: Mal at January 18, 2010 11:41 AM (Z+qzA)

these people are really clueless.

If they do this, the Dem. Party is dead, and democrats like me will be rooting their demise.  They really have no fucking clue this is a REPRESENTATIVE democracy.

In a sinister way, I almost want them to be stupid enough to do this, the backlash will so severe and so swift, it will make days when Bush was skewered as just light jabs.

Totally unbiased CNN confidently calls the race: http://tinyurl.com/ydfcuta

History will not treat Obama kindly.  Haiti is shaping up to be his personal Katrina."

Which is why he's sending in Bush Jr.  He's good at this sort of thing (handling a crisis that offers no actual "victory," merely varying degrees of mitigated pain, duress, and grief; doing so quietly, effectively, and honorably; taking no credit for the positive, and offering no response to criticism).

"Do you speak with a necro dialect?"

His skin is delightfully pale!

My sincere thanks to all those Mass., (yes I abbreviated for fear of spelling error), Morons for keeping us so informed.

Loppyd, SiM, Mal, lincolntf, and so many others. You really deserve to be saluted for your patriotic enthusiasm.

May God bless your endeavors with success.

Currently the Arizona Stronghold is experiencing AGWfall. This is central Arizona, elevation 5500 ft.

Go Scott Brown.

I dunno gang. Everyone here is fired up, but unless Brown has something like a 60-40 lead then you'd better watch out. The dems are going to pull out all the stops. If it's even close, then you might as well forget it.

Now I'm hoping I'm wrong. I want to be wrong.

But as I've said before, bet with your head, not your heart. If this thing goes into overtime...it's over.

My thoughts exactly.  I'm sure Al Franken is flying in to Massachusetts even as we speak "to show these guys how to do it right."

"Coakley up by only 2%?  Jeebers, their ballot counterfeiting operation must have been down over the weekend."

We don't do overtime, weekends, or MLKJr. day.

An honest day's work deserves appropriate respect!

Posted by: someone at January 18, 2010 11:55 AM (njJQD)

"Is that wrong?"

If that's wrong, I don't wanna be right!

Posted by: Chief Seattle at January 18, 2010 12:03 PM (z37MR)

Duh.  Nobody thinks this thing is in the bag.

BREAKING:  YouTube video footage of Scott Brown's pastor for the last 20 years, ranting and raving like a lunatic about stuff he read in the Bible!

I mean, real crazy-talk here, like how the Mosquitobites' chickens were coming home to roost!

Oh, man...is this guy toxic!

http://tinyurl.com/yjyrg77

Martha's empty phone bank video.  Nice.

H/T Nice Deb:

From tea partiers on Twitter:

TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS AT ACORN AND SEIU. . .

All the many tea partiers here on Twitter wanted to send you one final “shout-out” before the big election in Massachusetts on Tuesday.

AND we wanted to share with you the results of our little tweeting campaign weÂ’ve been conducting over the past week.

As you know, weÂ’ve been tweeting articles and You Tube videos to both the National and Massachusetts media throughout the past week. Our tweets were to Newspapers, TV and Radio.

BOY OH BOY, were people interested in what we had to say!

• Over 100,000 tweets were sent;

• Over 20,000 people viewed the articles and videos we sent out;

• One national and several Massachusetts news organizations told us they would be investigating both of your organization’s activities on election day;

• Nearly 3000 people have told us they’d be bringing video cameras to polling places just to video you and yours “having election day fun.” (You wouldn’t beleive where people told us they’d be hiding cameras!) Hmmmm. . . I wonder if any might be disenchanted members of your organizations?

Now, in light of all the attention all of you will be getting on Tuesday, we just wanted to give you some last minute advice:

1. ACORN and SEIU executives: you should wear your best suits, with a Red, White and Blue color scheme. Create that impression you are “All American”;

2. Be sure to wear your American Flag lapel pins;

3. For rank and file members, be sure you wear your Sunday-best SEIU and ACORN T-Shirts over your winter coats. And take time to iron them. It looks so much better on camera when you do.

4. Always SMILE! – You’ll never know when you might be on camera.

HAVE FUN ON ELECTION DAY!

Sincerely,
Tea Party Nation

People dressing up like the Statute of Liberty and signs calling Our Dear Wonderful Leader a Cracker are NOT going to help Scott's cause, not in Massachusett(e)s.

People dressing up like the Statute of Liberty and signs calling Our Dear Wonderful Leader a Cracker are NOT going to help Scott's cause, not in Massachusett(e)s.

The "cracker" poster was a proud LaRouchie creation.  But who doesn't like the Statue of Liberty?

187 My thoughts exactly.  I'm sure Al Franken is flying in to Massachusetts even as we speak "to show these guys how to do it right."

Byron York on the failure of TOTUS:

Who was more effective? Having watched Clinton's Boston speech from inside the room Friday, and Obama's speech on television today, it's impossible to escape the conclusion that Clinton just blew Obama's doors off. Obama's speech was halting, wandering, and humorless; the president looked as if he didnÂ’t want to be there.

There's no doubt the crowd was excited to see Obama, but he seemed so hesitant and out-of-rhythm at the top that it appeared he might have been having teleprompter trouble, and he was also clearly rattled and unable to handle the completely-predictable presence of a heckler.

By contrast, Clinton's speech, delivered without a prompter and seemingly off the cuff, was about as good as you can get on the stump. Clinton remains the greatest simplifier in American politics; he can present an issue -- usually the wrong side of an issue -- as the most obvious, common-sense idea you could possibly imagine. His speech was better than Obama's by a mile.

The fact is, for all his reputation as a great orator, Obama just doesn't look very good outside the comfort zone of his teleprompter and a carefully scripted event. His admirers in the Democratic party and the press may tingle with excitement when he takes the stage, but Obama was clearly the second-best presidential campaigner in the Massachusetts race.

S. Hiller, BigGov.com:

As most of us are aware, Obama–without his teleprompter–rambles, is at times incoherent, and goes on and on to answer a yes or no question. He needs his teleprompter. It’s not like an addiction need, it’s more like ‘I really need my teleprompter, because I don’t want to say what you don’t want to hear’ type of issue.

Vodapundit:

116,483 registered Massachusetts voters are dead, according to an analysis conducted by Aristotle International, Inc. a software and digital database developer.

As reported by CNS News, “In Massachusetts, 116,483 registered voters are dead, 3.38 percent of the state’s total of registered voters. Another 538,567, or 15.6 percent, had moved to an area outside of where they are registered to vote.”

If BrownÂ’s going to win, heÂ’ll have to win big.

New Scott Brown video from yesterday's People Rally.  H/T EaBo Clipper. http://tinyurl.com/yzjmaeq

"Pleeeeeease have an open thread for when the results start pouring in - we're gonna need a victory post."

Any predictions on how many flaming skulls a Brown Victory Poat will garner?

Any predictions on how many flaming skulls a Brown Victory Poat will garner?

Posted by: reason at January 18, 2010 02:08 PM (L51+P)

One for each percentage point he beats her by.

In that CNN article check out how Brown's supporters are defined by what they are against, Coakley supporters by what they're for.  Noted many times before, of course, nothing to see, of course.

Also check out how they didn't bother to fix the following quote: 

"I don't think it is particularly the president. I don't think it is particularly Coakley. I think it is the direction that this country is taking. We need to send a message to the people. The people are very angry," independent voter Denis Fitzgerald said.

If you're a democrat this is the quote you run with.  It has everything:  no blame for Obama, no blame for Coakley, the people are simply angry.  And who are they angry at?  The people.  Those nutty teabaggers - they're irrationally angry!  Now did Denis Fitzgerald mean politicians with the first mention of 'people' in the quote?  Seems likely.  But if they fixed the quote people might better understand what's going on and not what CNN wants you to think is going on.

EBJ,

The more the media pulls crap like that, the angrier people get. It's like liberals can't tell the difference between gasoline and water.

229 When I door knocked a few years ago in my community, I found dead voters too. There is no way to get them off the rolls. Nobody cares. So all a crook has to do is walk in to the polls, sign for one of them, and vote. We can't ask for proof of identity/citizenship at the polls in Commiefornia....that would keep the illegals from voting too.

This drives me crazy.  It's such a fundamental thing, keeping the votes honest and accurate.  For God's sake, we're America, not Iran!

Ever since the stupid stimulus package, I've fantasized on what I would do if it was up to me:

- hire 2,000 people at $20/hr. to update these voter lists and verify each and every name.  Eliminate all the fakes and dead people.

- hire 1,000 people at $60/hr. to patrol the Mexican border 24 hrs. a day.  Outfit them with the right technology.  Make sure the right people are hired (retired military/police/firefighters?) and have enough supervision to make sure there is no corruption.

- hire 5,000 people at $15/hr. to clean up, improve and update all the local, state and national parks.  Hire contractors and painters to replace and update buildings, bathrooms, etc.  Make it a modern day WPA and promote the family/wellness/health aspects of spending time in nature and away from the shit TV pumped out by Hollyweird.  I maintained parks, built new trails, etc. during summers in high school at $6/hr.  It left me with a huge appreciation for parks and the beauty of God's work.  Taught valuable lessons, too.

- hire 500 more meat/fish/poultry inspectors at whatever is the going rate it.  Do more to insure the safety of our food supply.

- hire 1,000 inspectors at the going rate to smoke out companies that are employing illegal aliens.  Open up the jobs to actual Americans.

- hire 1,500 more inspectors to protect our ports.  Give them the best technology.

There's lots more, of course.  It's nuts how stooopid, wrong, inefficient, and corrupt speding is by our government, at all levels.

I understand why it won't change, it favors the dems.  ACORN and unions and the American Criminal Liberties Union won't allow it.  But this corruption needs to be cleaned up.  We'd be much better off if all the bullshit was eliminated and corruptacrats were bounced from office.

Somebody needs to taste some nightstick.