January 19, 2010

Top Headline Comments 1-19-10
— Gabriel Malor

Big day!

Also: Thank you to the Bay Area Morons for the warm welcome. We had 16 people turn out last night. It was nice to meet Keith, Diane, Rod, Rodney, Alex, Roc, Clark, John, Dan, Doug, and Cthulhu. And you guys whose names I'm blanking on. Oh, it was nice to see Sobek again. Special thanks to Travis for buying drinks for everyone and for an excellent toast: "Scott Brown!" I'll definitely have to come up this way again.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 04:53 AM | Comments (225)
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1 Wasn't even trying.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at January 19, 2010 04:55 AM (SCcgT)

2 Today is the big day!

Posted by: Vet Missing Parts at January 19, 2010 04:57 AM (MCHyX)

3 What's the weather like in Mass. today?

Posted by: maddogg at January 19, 2010 05:02 AM (OlN4e)

4

Watching Morning Joe. Sorry to see the Eugene Robinson has recently suffered a divorce."

Did he blame it on race? That is what every single piece he writes for the post does.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 19, 2010 05:02 AM (SqAkN)

5 Has anybody punched that stolen valor guy's face in yet?

Posted by: Joanna at January 19, 2010 05:02 AM (gJQTg)

6

Arrrgggg;

We MUST have Megyn back for the 9 o clock slot. AFter 3 hours of liberal crap from F&F must have an offset.

Gregg Shitasss and ALL of the reporters are liberals.

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:03 AM (QrA9E)

7

What's the weather like in Mass. today?

More important, maddogg: What's the sunspot count?

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at January 19, 2010 05:06 AM (SCcgT)

8

Hope "the powers that be" here keep us as updated as possible during the day on exit polls.  Go get 'em Mr. Brown.

And for you college basketball fans;  their two fine guards have absolutely horrible offensive games and yet, KSU defeates #1 Texas last night. Oh yeah!!

We are - We are - KSU

Posted by: teej at January 19, 2010 05:07 AM (c459z)

9 NOAA says snow in Boston today. Breezy with a high of 35 deg.F.

Posted by: maddogg at January 19, 2010 05:08 AM (OlN4e)

10

More important, maddogg: What's the sunspot count?

Sun spot count is one.

Posted by: maddogg at January 19, 2010 05:08 AM (OlN4e)

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:11 AM (QrA9E)

12 Dear Mr. Malor,
   Hello, how do you like San Fransisco? It seems you have a way of attracting a crowd. Recent events in politics have convinced us that we need to look outside the beltway when looking for advice on new candidates. Is there any chance you would relocate to the Bay Area and run against Nancy Pelosi?



Posted by: RNC at January 19, 2010 05:13 AM (OOgDc)

13

So far:
Me:  Brown by 6
Jean:  Brown by 12
LikeATimeBomb:  By 8
arhooley: 8
enoxo:  7
Truman North:  4
Country Squire:  7
Mr. Pink:  Kennedy, 25
SiM:  Brown, 9
dagny:  2
Big Fat Meanie:  5

Mallamut: 4.3

An Independent Voter : Coakley +3 (your poll rdbrewer--include or not)

Who knows: 7

 

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:14 AM (cG9YA)

14 A win by Brown would be the best present to give Barry for his first year in office

Posted by: TheQuietman at January 19, 2010 05:15 AM (1Jaio)

15 I said Brown by 4 on the other thread.  Include me damnit!

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 19, 2010 05:16 AM (U37Ux)

16 Dagny, I'm going for the gold... give me Brown by 20. 60-40 baby nothing sends a message like a blow out.

Posted by: Vet Missing Parts at January 19, 2010 05:16 AM (MCHyX)

17 Did the 7-8 stand-out shift at my polling station.  Started to snow at 7:20, snowing substantially by the time I voted (8:05) and had to leave for work (yeah, I don't get paid to stand-out).  No Coakley supporters or even signs, which is somewhat odd.  The weather is going to get nastier as the day goes on, too.

Turnout was brisk for a special election, but not what we usually get for a major election (we'll probably get to 50%, massive for a special).  Reception was overwhelmingly positive.

I'll know pretty early how it's going - I have to call-in my town's results to the campaign.  My town is about 5-8 points to the right of MA as a whole, so if Scott carries my town by 10 or more I'm going to be feeling pretty good.  Anything less and it's probably a nail biter, and if he loses my town it's o-v-e-r.

Posted by: DocJ at January 19, 2010 05:17 AM (dt6br)

18 DNCC leaked internal poll has Brown by 5--via HA

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:17 AM (cG9YA)

19

Michel Graham on Fox is awesome!

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:18 AM (QrA9E)

20 Mass. Republicans & Tea Party need to begin, tomorrow, searching for the perfect candidate to replace John Kerry.

Posted by: Polly at January 19, 2010 05:20 AM (7Gcxu)

21

WOW!!!!!

Fox Dem talker: Healthcare not lost by MA race. Healthcare lost last summer because WH let Republicans define the bill.

Of course fair and balanced debate tries to refute him.

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:20 AM (QrA9E)

22

Well, let's give some credit to this CNN crew (CNN story, linked at HotAir Headlines):

Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after a Belgian medical team evacuated the area, saying it was concerned about security.

The decision left CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta as the only doctor at the hospital to get the patients through the night....

Gupta -- assisted by other CNN staffers, security personnel and at least one Haitian nurse who refused to leave -- assessed the needs of the 25 patients, but there was little they could do without supplies....

At 3:45 a.m., he posted a message on Twitter: "pulling all nighter at haiti field hosp. lots of work, but all patients stable. turned my crew into a crack med team tonight."

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 05:20 AM (Be4xl)

23 Having just done my morning drive to work, I can report that the weather in Boston is extremely craptacular. It's snowy. Driving conditions suck. Later, it's supposed to change to rain and then back to snow. I will brave the conditions and go vote anyway, because I am effing FIRED UP.

I do have to report on one thing: On my drive, I pass by one polling place. Out at the fence, outside the "no campaign zone", there was a regular Coakley sign, and also a hand-made orange and brown "Brown US Senate" sign that looked like it had been done by a child. I thought it summed up the campaign very well, and if I'd had time, I'd have stopped and snapped a picture.

Which reminds me. Mass voters, bring your digicams and DV cameras to the polling place with you. If you see any funny business, get pictures and/or video.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 19, 2010 05:21 AM (z4es9)

24 To paraphrase anchorman Ernie Anastos: Let's not fuck them chickens before they're hatched.

Posted by: Little Miss Factcheck at January 19, 2010 05:22 AM (xqhoO)

25

Of course fair and balanced debate tries to refute him.

oops, they try to refute Graham, not the Dem talker.  Post did not come out as I intended.

I have NEVER seen the 'fair and balanced" debate try to refute a liberal.

 

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:23 AM (QrA9E)

26
Michael Graham from Boston's 96.9?

Yeah, he's clever.

Posted by: yakov one-joke at January 19, 2010 05:23 AM (z37MR)

27

How times have changed.

In his belief that the end justifies the means, yesterday, in a subtle way, of course,  MSNBC's Chris Matthews encouraged Democrats in Massachusetts to steal the election by any means possible.

This poster was incredulous. His ilk think that it's cutesy, chic and trendy to be sleazy and dishonest, and they brazenly admit it, thinking that's cutesy, too.

I usually don't bother to watch Matthews, but I remember that when I watched his show for its full hour one evening several months ago, I counted the number of lies that he told in that hour, and as I recall, it was in the 30's. What a sleaze.

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 05:23 AM (ITzbJ)

28

Burn the witch: 4

Me (rdbrewer):  Brown by 6
Jean:  Brown by 12
LikeATimeBomb:  By 8
arhooley: 8
enoxo:  7
Truman North:  4
Country Squire:  7
Mr. Pink:  Kennedy, 25
SiM:  Brown, 9
dagny:  2

Mallamut: 4.3

Big Fat Meanie:  5

Who Knows: 7

Vet Missing Parts: 20

DNCC: brown +4

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:23 AM (cG9YA)

29 Brown +6.

Believe it.

Posted by: DocJ at January 19, 2010 05:23 AM (dt6br)

30

This is off topic here but I just found out Beyonce flew to the Carribean and did a show for Quadafi's son for 2.5 million for his birthday. Never been a fan of her, now I have another reason not to be. I hope she enjoys her blood money.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 19, 2010 05:24 AM (SqAkN)

31 I wonder how much he has to win by to compensate for the ACORN effect?

Posted by: Robin at January 19, 2010 05:25 AM (LOWXN)

32 I'm in for +5.5 for the gentleman from MA

Posted by: Johnny I at January 19, 2010 05:26 AM (Jj2Z9)

33 "Fox Dem talker: Healthcare not lost by MA race. Healthcare lost last summer because WH let Republicans define the bill."

Wow! They are giving Republicans credit for that? How very generous of them.


Posted by: Robin at January 19, 2010 05:26 AM (LOWXN)

34 BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

http://tinyurl.com/yc4h93x

Because he hasn't been combative enough so far.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 19, 2010 05:27 AM (z4es9)

35 Brown by 4.5

Posted by: jcjimi at January 19, 2010 05:27 AM (XSikc)

36 No headline just this prediction: Dems and their skulking cadre of community organizers will be squirming and wriggling the next couple of days trying to figure out how to pull a Franken out of this election. That is where the entertainment in this election will come from - Kerry pounding the contrived 'voter intimidation' drum, precincts with close results doing extended recounts and finding mountains of  "Oh!  Look what I found here!" ballots.  Brown will confound the post election mechanizations just like he confounded the machine in the campaign.  There will be some red faces and hopefully some prosecutions as lefties are caught red handed trying to commit election fraud.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 19, 2010 05:27 AM (RkRxq)

37 its cloudy, cold, sleety, rainy, my hemorrhoids are inflamed...i don't have a good feeling about today...just saying.   

Posted by: eeyore sore at January 19, 2010 05:27 AM (pr+up)

38

via commenter motionview at Jim Treacher's new gig at the DC Trawler

Tim Conway Jr. this morning on KFI Los Angeles:

"Ted Kennedy just got his 4 month sobriety pin."

Posted by: Looking Glass at January 19, 2010 05:27 AM (4nPBL)

39 Hey, uh, I just want to, uh, say, get out and vote for Martha Coakley, uh, okay?  She's a fine broad and, uh, would be, uh, good for the count...

...uh, sorry.  I gotta get back to work.  It's my day to be anally sodomized by an eternal line of demons.  Satan said that today, it was going to be more my than my legacy that was getting fucked.  That Satan, what a kidder!

Okay boss, be right there!  No lube today?  Uh, darn.

Posted by: The ghost of Ted Kennedy, taking a coffee break at January 19, 2010 05:27 AM (CbVPH)

40 Also my actual prediction is Coakley by 4, I was joking about the Kennedy win.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 19, 2010 05:28 AM (SqAkN)

41 Mr. Pink, are you talking about the New Year's Eve thing or something newer?

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 05:28 AM (Be4xl)

42
okay, so tv political reporter Andy Hiller is WEEI sports talk is talking about bell-weather cities & towns in Massachusetts.

bell weathers in elections are places where one can say: as X goes so goes Y.

so, Brown is up in all 3 MA bellweather locations.

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:28 AM (z37MR)

43 25

Kudos to them! Perhaps they make better medical personnel than journalists and should consider career moves.

Posted by: Robin at January 19, 2010 05:28 AM (LOWXN)

44

46

New Years eve I think. I just heard about it.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 19, 2010 05:29 AM (SqAkN)

45 Today is the big day! Posted by: Vet Missing Parts at January 19, 2010 08:57 AM (MCHyX) Yup and we get the day off to a great start by swearing in a R Gov Christie in NJ today!

Posted by: nevergiveup at January 19, 2010 05:29 AM (0GFWk)

46 I say Brown, but real close, say, 2.5.

It is Massachusetts.

Posted by: Xoxotl at January 19, 2010 05:30 AM (CbVPH)

47

Weather in Boston????

Shitty

Good. The Coakley voters can stay home where it is nice and toasty.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at January 19, 2010 05:30 AM (1hM1d)

48

Michael Graham from Boston's 96.9?

Yeah, he's clever.

Don't know about 96.9 'cause can't get it in SC even with a 100 ft antenna. But he is the one who wrote the column in the Boston Herald that compared Coakley to the Titanic crashing into the Hindenberg.

 

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:31 AM (QrA9E)

49
I'm still even on this race. Can go either way.

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:31 AM (z37MR)

50 Voted.  Based upon the time versus the number of ballots counted, we are on pace to outstrip the total in 2008 in my town.

Posted by: Truman North at January 19, 2010 05:31 AM (e8YaH)

51 Brown by single digits. I'll say 4.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at January 19, 2010 05:31 AM (SCcgT)

52

I'm wicked psyched about today, gotta hit the road for a few hours. I'll be back...

 

Posted by: dananjcon at January 19, 2010 05:31 AM (pr+up)

53

31

I usually don't bother to watch Matthews, but I remember that when I watched his show for its full hour one evening several months ago, I counted the number of lies that he told in that hour, and as I recall, it was in the 30's. What a sleaze.

So you're the one who doubled his audience that day.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 19, 2010 05:31 AM (RkRxq)

54
yeah, he's on in the afternoon up here

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:32 AM (z37MR)

55 15 - put me down for a fisky.

Brown +5

Posted by: Joy to the whirled at January 19, 2010 05:32 AM (WVBjj)

56 Since nobody else has that nice round number, I'll take Mr. Brown by 10.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 05:32 AM (Be4xl)

57
anyone here from the Philly area?

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:32 AM (z37MR)

58

Weather on the South Shore of Boston is also "craptacular" a messy wintry mix of snow and rain, slippery too.

Went to vote this am but line was too long for me to wait - we do have a town question to repeal the special town meal tax that our selectman added ... right after the state upped the state sales tax by 25%.  People are angry and they are voting!

Many more Brown people out in force at a few of the polling stations I drove by. 

I think it's going to be a great day.

Posted by: tank at January 19, 2010 05:32 AM (CW29u)

59 Sorry to miss the meet up, I always love those. My plane got in around 9. Wish I was back in Maui, this weather blows and sucks at the same time.

Posted by: rawmuse at January 19, 2010 05:33 AM (3vcxs)

60 Hmmm.  I'm going to go on a limb here and say that Brown wins, by a landslide.  Oh, a good 6 or 7 points.

Shit, I gotta go.  They expect me to shake hands with... people.  In the cold.  And they probably own trucks, too.

Posted by: Martha Coakley, taking a coffee break at January 19, 2010 05:33 AM (CbVPH)

61

Anyone see the clip of Matthews where he was incredulous that the fact that Brown was a Protestant hadn't been brought up by anyone in the campagin. 

How pathetic is that!  He was lamenting the end of tribal politics in MA.

Ha, ha, ha. 

Posted by: tank at January 19, 2010 05:34 AM (CW29u)

62

... and as far as Eugene Robinson's divorce goes, all I have to say is;

Cu cu cachoo, Mrs. Robinson!

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 19, 2010 05:34 AM (RkRxq)

63

anyone here from the Philly area?

Lived there a long time, but not lately...

 

I started my coffee, but then I went to JammieWearingFool (.blogspot.com) and was frightened awake by the first picture. Damn.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 05:35 AM (Be4xl)

64
Town meal tax.

Wasn't that a brilliant idea? In the middle of a recession, let's raise taxes! Our legislators are so fucking clueless when it comes to business, economics, and tax burden.

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:35 AM (z37MR)

65
Best site for returns?

Posted by: jcjimi at January 19, 2010 05:35 AM (XSikc)

66

dagny:  2

Xoxotl: 2.5

Burn the witch: 4

Bat chain : 4

Truman North:  4

DNCC: brown +4

Mallamut: 4.3

Jcjimi: 4.5

Joy to the: 5

Big Fat Meanie:  5

Johnny I: 5.5

Me (rdbrewer):  Brown by 6

Doc J: 6

enoxo:  7

Country Squire:  7

Who Knows: 7
LikeATimeBomb:  By 8
arhooley: 8
SiM:  Brown, 9

Jean:  Brown by 12

Vet Missing Parts: 20

 

Mr. Pink: Coakley 4

An Independent Voter: Coakley 3

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:36 AM (cG9YA)

67
I was asking about Philly because I was just curious about what 'conservative' talker Michael Smerconish has to say about this election.

Smerconish is the 'conservative' who supports Obama.

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:36 AM (z37MR)

68 I'll take Brown +8 points and I'll take the Jets with the 7 points.

Posted by: nevergiveup at January 19, 2010 05:37 AM (0GFWk)

69

Republicans (and Independents) should strive to pick up enough seats in Congress in 2010 that they will be able to impeach Obama for the good of the country.

Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 05:38 AM (ITzbJ)

70
the best site for returns will be probably be boston.com

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:38 AM (z37MR)

71 Instead of the usual morning coffee, I had a cup of freshly squeezed liberal tears. They flowed, like a geyser, out of the television, as I watched Morning Joe.

The show ended with them playing the BeeGee's "Massachusettes".

For liberals, yes, the lights are going out in MA.

Posted by: Who Knows at January 19, 2010 05:38 AM (0aQsc)

72

Smerconish is the 'conservative' who supports Obama.

Then I probably wouldn't be listening to him even if I could!

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 05:38 AM (Be4xl)

73

Dear Mr. President:

You had a year to prove yourself. What you got, in return for your efforts, was the nearest thing to open revolt this country's seen in decades.

Consider yourself fortunate that your opponents are so civilized. They didn't throw tantrums on campuses or commit violence against their fellow citizens; instead, they voted legally and supported candidates with their own labor and money.

Maybe, if you're competent under all that false perfection you project, you can learn to govern as Clinton did, and survive with a reputation better than that of the only other Democrat president you remember, Carter.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 19, 2010 05:38 AM (2QFX4)

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 05:38 AM (p302b)

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:39 AM (QrA9E)

76 I'm from Philadelphia and live in West Chester at the moment. Smerconish is just your typical Philly lawyer. He's no R! He's a lib!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 19, 2010 05:39 AM (SB0V2)

77 I just cast my ballot for Scott! Lots and lots of Brown signs at the polling place. Zero Coakley. Marcia's gonna need a bigger boat.

Posted by: Andy at January 19, 2010 05:39 AM (Uohrc)

78 First time saw Michael Smirconish is when BO singled him out for that interview.  Got a totally bad vibe from the guy. 

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 05:39 AM (p302b)

79 #69 - yes raising taxes in this economy ... and remember Marcia said "We need to get taxes UP!"

Posted by: tank at January 19, 2010 05:40 AM (CW29u)

80 Coakley supporters looking for some hope on a bleak winter morning? Obama's endorsement will tip the scales. Kelonda explains it all for you.

Posted by: Little Miss Factcheck at January 19, 2010 05:40 AM (xqhoO)

81 Dagny, you old Dukie, but me in Brown plus 11

Posted by: Kemp at January 19, 2010 05:40 AM (2+9Yx)

82 Brown(R) - 53% Coakley(D) - 45% Kennedy(I) - 2% Brown +8

Posted by: AeroFANatic at January 19, 2010 05:40 AM (tYDOJ)

83

Silly prediction: Brown will win by a ton because they people Martha hired to fix the vote are secretly Brown supporters.

Just like the people at the ad agency that added the "e" and used the Trade Center pic).

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 05:40 AM (Be4xl)

84 16 Conservatives in San Fran??  Was that the conservative contingent for the entire city???

And to hear a group give a toast to Scott Brown in a bar in San Fran.. that woulda been something to see..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 19, 2010 05:41 AM (f9c2L)

85 Beck just said "if Brown wins, and that's a big If" and "the democrats don't back off and try to be more moderate then you know I was right and we are dealing with the progressives."

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 05:41 AM (p302b)

86 Hey, uh, you think it's too late to see if Scott Brown is going to be hiring?

Posted by: Martha Coakley, taking a coffee break at January 19, 2010 05:45 AM (CbVPH)

87

How does Olbermann make it through his show without thinking the camera is out to get him?

"In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees."

 

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 05:45 AM (Be4xl)

88

Weather in Boston is a wintery mix of snow and freezing rain according to the Weather channel.

 

Put me down for Brown at 11+.  You've got to be pretty committed to go out into freezing rain.

Posted by: Warthog at January 19, 2010 05:46 AM (WDySP)

89 Boooooooo yaaaaaaaah!   Brown up by 9!

This could be it, folks.  We are fired UP in MA!  I have a very good feeling about this.

The only bad thing is, if we win, how long until the media say it was STOLEN?  Or how about the fact that the dems would then have their scape goat, and the media would go right along with it?

"HC WOULD have passed if ONLY if it wasn't for that awful rethuglican Scott Brown!"

Fuckers

Burn in hell, Teddy!  You deserve this!

Posted by: MelodicMetal in MA at January 19, 2010 05:46 AM (x4S2a)

90
I'm not sure where tank is on the South Shore but in the Duxbury area the snow stopped.This is great for Brown because it's a pretty conservative area(we have a Republican State Rep.)

This gonna happen.
Brown by 6.

Posted by: Mal at January 19, 2010 05:46 AM (Z+qzA)

91
Brown by 5.

It is still Assholechusettes, and ACORN is still not dead.

Posted by: Dang Straights at January 19, 2010 05:46 AM (fx8sm)

92

I'll take Brown by 6.

Hopefully, that's outside the margin of fraud, ACORN, lawyers, error.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 19, 2010 05:47 AM (i3AsK)

93 I dunno about you, but I can't help saying "progressive" with the same diminution as I say, "diarrhea."

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 19, 2010 05:48 AM (2QFX4)

94 Dagny-- If you're updating, 5.5 for me.

Posted by: Johnny I at January 19, 2010 05:48 AM (ig2PW)

95 Jim Cramer is a loon. I stopped listening to him a couple of years ago.

Posted by: maddogg at January 19, 2010 05:49 AM (OlN4e)

96 Mallmutt: You are on there. They are now arranged in ascending order with Coakley pessamists at the bottom

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:49 AM (cG9YA)

97

Anyone see the cookies that have Scott Brown's face on them - hilarious.  National Review Online Bay State report has the story.  I need some of those cookies!

Posted by: tank at January 19, 2010 05:49 AM (CW29u)

98 My prediction:  Brown 53%, Coakley 78%

Posted by: Truman North at January 19, 2010 05:49 AM (e8YaH)

99

dagny:  2

Xoxotl: 2.5

Burn the witch: 4

Bat chain : 4

Truman North:  4

DSCC: brown +4

Mallamut: 4.3

Jcjimi: 4.5

Dang Straits: 5

Joy to the: 5

Big Fat Meanie:  5

Johnny I: 5.5

Me (rdbrewer):  Brown by 6

Backwardsboy: 6

Doc J: 6

enoxo:  7

Country Squire:  7

Who Knows: 7
LikeATimeBomb:  By 8
arhooley: 8

Never give up: 8

Aerofanatic: 8
SiM:  Brown, 9

Kemp: 11

Jean:  Brown by 12

Vet Missing Parts: 20

 

Mr. Pink: Coakley 4

An Independent Voter: Coakley 3

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:50 AM (cG9YA)

100 For those asking about the weather here in MA:

Weather means nothing to us.  It could be full blown blizzard, and we'd still go to the polls.

The weather is nice today.  About 32 degrees, some snow flurries on top of the giant storm we just had. 

I'm so excited, I feel like I drank 4 cups of coffee already..

Posted by: MelodicMetal in MA at January 19, 2010 05:50 AM (x4S2a)

101 In word there are no double spaces, on the comment square no double spaces but when it goes up ---double---?

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:51 AM (cG9YA)

102

92

Did he really say that?

Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 19, 2010 05:51 AM (SqAkN)

103 Brown by 3

Posted by: rawmuse at January 19, 2010 05:51 AM (3vcxs)

104 @90 Can we back off that freakin word: progressives? Cause they're not for progress...just some kind of feudal communism. Brown by 6.5. Oh, look! The French sent a reporter: Sen. John Kerry: Brown Supporters Campaign In Manner Reminiscent of Genghis Khan

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2010 05:52 AM (HylJ6)

105
the bad weather will keep some old people away

and that's bad for the Democrats

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:53 AM (z37MR)

106

92

Did he really say that?

Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 19, 2010 09:51 AM (SqAkN)

Yes; Laura Ingraham has run the sound byte at least twice

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 19, 2010 05:54 AM (VGeGl)

107
If you listen real hard, you can hear the proverbial fat lady warming up behind the curtain.

Going to vote now. Thumbs up!

Posted by: sickinmass but getting better at January 19, 2010 05:54 AM (Dxfei)

108

OK my 2 cents

Brown by 10

Martha McCallum;   - 10 for being a liberal scrunt who just can not hold back today.

 

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 05:54 AM (QrA9E)

109 I heard that olbermann soundtrack on the sport/politics show on the sports radio station this morning.

Posted by: Truman North at January 19, 2010 05:54 AM (e8YaH)

110
bad weather is also good for Brown for another reason -- the Kennedy voters who are more conservative than liberal (though very few in number) are more likely to stay home. Not only is it a waste of a vote, it's also shitty on the roads.

So the people who who were going to the polls today to waste their vote on Kennedy are more likely to stay home.

Posted by: This is...it doesn't matter, just read it at January 19, 2010 05:55 AM (z37MR)

Posted by: andycanuck at January 19, 2010 05:56 AM (2qU2d)

112

I think Brown's proton torpedo might be about the size of a star destroyer. 

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 19, 2010 05:57 AM (U37Ux)

113 Hey, guys, could you put me down for 7 too?

Posted by: Abdominal Snowman at January 19, 2010 05:58 AM (pla1I)

114 Beck talking about gerrymandering of the districts so that people like bony frunk get elected.  He is saying party identification is down.  Independents are up.  Of course who wants to be associated with these two train wrecks that we refer to as political parties.

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 05:58 AM (p302b)

115

I hate the word progressive too but we are using it in the historical sense. In the late 1800s early 1900s there were some fantastically misguided intellectuals who thought that social theory could fix the problems caused by the industrial revolution. They called themselves progressive. Among their ranks were Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Dorothy Day, Eugene Debs, Margaret Sanger. They were dangerous. Many of the later ones were communists and most respected the communist revolutions. Most were also eugenicists. The progressives loved dictators because the people are too stupid to understand social theory and they paved the way for Hitler. We are still fixing the disasters created by Woodrow Wilson. They haven't changed at all.

However, now we know what the progressive policies lead to---death, poverty, war---and we have to recognize it and stop it.

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 05:59 AM (cG9YA)

116 115 Vic-- That's sad news re MM. She's a looker.

Posted by: Johnny I at January 19, 2010 05:59 AM (ig2PW)

117 Vic - Why watch if they drive you crazy?

Posted by: Shannon at January 19, 2010 06:00 AM (GOuff)

118 Hey, lay off Martha McCallum. She is a cutie. (Or did you mean Martha Coakley?)

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 06:00 AM (ITzbJ)

119 If Intrade is any indication, Martha is going to be a sad panda by the end of the day.

Prediction to win:  Coakley = 29%.  Brown = 72%

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfk23z3

Posted by: Xoxotl at January 19, 2010 06:02 AM (CbVPH)

120 I know nothing but dems and libs, they are scary sure that they are going to win in MA.  They give you that knowing look, like the "it's in the bag".  so either later they will be uncontrollable in their "told you so's" or they will be"throwing coakley under the bus as a non representative, wishy washy candidate but crying in silence alone".   It's hard to tell here, they are so cock sure.

On that note, they keep throwing rasmussen at me.  What did rasmussen say or write or do that I missed?

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 06:04 AM (p302b)

121 123 Dagny-- My history textbooks didn't look anything like "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah @ NR. Quite an eye-opener when it came out.

Posted by: Johnny I at January 19, 2010 06:04 AM (Jj2Z9)

122 Add me to the list Brown by 7%... Snowing since 8am at the border of NH and MA. When can we start drinking something other than coffee?? Do I have to wait til5, or can I start @12? No premature ball dipping. Let's get out the vote!

Posted by: ford at January 19, 2010 06:04 AM (Ki7fm)

123 IMAO: What to Expect if Scott Brown Wins

IMAO's hilarious list. Make sure to read it.

I LOL'd. I did.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at January 19, 2010 06:05 AM (UEEex)

124 Here's the "seminar" e-mail/Facebook post I just got from a Lib friend. It's like  Moonbat Talking Points 101.

Just a friendly reminder that today we have a special election for our second State Senator in congress, the seat left open with Ted Kennedy's passing. The race is really close and this is a really important election. The republican nominee, Scott Brown, has pledged to vote against Ted's life work - health ...care reform. Additionally, "Brown favors the death penalty. He's against gay marriage. He questions whether global warming is man-made or natural. And he's been endorsed by an anti-abortion group"  I hope you all feel as strongly as we do that having our state represented by a pro-life, global warming questioning senator is unacceptable and will get out and vote for the democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 19, 2010 06:06 AM (Ab8Sw)

125 Dude, 5 was like five hours ago on the east coast.  Get drinking.

Posted by: Truman North at January 19, 2010 06:07 AM (e8YaH)

126

Posted by: polynikes at January 19, 2010 10:02 AM (m2CN7)

You really think so?  Every credible poll I've seen has Brown by at least 4.  Anyway, Even if he loses, I understand that Kirk loses his seat as soon as the polls close, so they won't have enough votes for cloture until somebody is certified anyway.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+/tard at January 19, 2010 06:07 AM (IoUF1)

127 130 That goes along with 538 going Coakley 3:1 payoff to win

Posted by: Johnny I at January 19, 2010 06:07 AM (ig2PW)

128 Oh, and Brown by 2 percent.  ACORN factor, the Zombie vote, and general stupidity account for 10 percent of the MassachusettEs voter base. But they won't have enough this time.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at January 19, 2010 06:09 AM (UEEex)

129

Ford: if it's medicinal, you can start anytime

Johnny I: Thomas Sowell has been saying this stuff for 25 years. He has a new book out :Intellectuals and society which traces the progressives

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 06:09 AM (cG9YA)

130 I'm going to say Brown +5

Posted by: Sassypants at January 19, 2010 06:10 AM (zVaLe)

131

Vic - Why watch if they drive you crazy?

Because the alternatives are even worse. The 9 o:clock slot used to be good with Megyn but since she got pregnant it has turned to crap.

 But you are right; I am about to turn it off. I'll get my news today from the 'net. TV news totally sucks now.

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 06:10 AM (QrA9E)

132

How much of the Democrat implosion is due to having an essentially uncontested seat for 40+ years?  If Mass never needed the election-shenanigan machinery in place, it could be the flaming crater of what's-er-name's campaign is the result of not having the normal (for Dems) trickery well established. 

Or I could be completely wrong.  It's not like I know anything about MA.

Posted by: Cautiously Pessimistic at January 19, 2010 06:10 AM (pZEar)

Posted by: CAD Daddy at January 19, 2010 06:11 AM (T400w)

134

102 Mallmutt: You are on there. They are now arranged in ascending order with Coakley pessamists at the bottom

Well then put me down for Brown by 85%.  Now what did I do with that bottle? 

Posted by: teej at January 19, 2010 06:12 AM (c459z)

135 They can call themselves 'progressives' but that doesn't mean that they stand for progress.  I could form the 'Astronaut Party' but it doesn't mean that I'm going to the fucking moon.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 19, 2010 06:15 AM (e910j)

136 Dagny--I meant my eyes. I've been reading Sowell's columns (newsletters lol) for a time, and I have made up a reading list including his work.

Posted by: Johnny I at January 19, 2010 06:15 AM (Jj2Z9)

137 # 135 - i think the zombie voters are the ony ones who need to be reminded to vote today!  What a crappy message from your libfriend - Scott Brown is a state senator now - the way it's phrased "our second State Senator in Congress" - duh

Posted by: tank at January 19, 2010 06:16 AM (CW29u)

138

@123 Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 09:59 AM (cG9YA)

Yesterday Glen Beck said his tv show on Fri. is going to be about the "progressive" movement of the early 20th century.  Said he was told to warn folks about it because of how shocking it is going to be.  A patriotic friend said he'd tape it for me.  Fire up your DVR's and TIVO's or whatever all that stuff is morons.  Might be worth having for your library to educate libs.

Posted by: teej at January 19, 2010 06:17 AM (c459z)

139

# 147  We know that the quality of the product directly results in the impression given to people.

wow, replica handbags is right - that quote screams Marcia Coakley!

Posted by: tank at January 19, 2010 06:17 AM (CW29u)

140 Vic - Agreed, it does. I rarely watch much anymore and highly recommend it! :-). I'm more of a radio listener and net reader myself.

Posted by: Shannon at January 19, 2010 06:18 AM (GOuff)

141 oh geez Beck just said that they are saying if Brown wins it is because coakley was a bad candidate to begin with and that the pres did not do a good job of getting his message out and framing the argument for healthcare.   Are they smokin crack????

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 06:18 AM (p302b)

142 Brown by 10. Take it to the bank. And the bunk if you're so inclined.

This vast right-wing conspiracy is going to sneak into little curtained booths today, furtively scrawl their illiterate "X" across a sheet of tree-murdering paper and drop it into a wooden box.

How can any good come of this antiprogressive secret ballot? Hiding behind curtains, these people vote for their own fleeting selfish interests.

Did these sociopaths learn nothing from the election of 2008? The people spoke! And now Teabaggers have the audacity to undo that speakingness.

Posted by: Little Miss Factcheck at January 19, 2010 06:18 AM (xqhoO)

143

or they will be"throwing coakley under the bus as a non representative, wishy washy candidate but crying in silence alone". 

Bawney Fwank has already prepared the ground for this.

[And how about cleaning up the #147 spam spill?]

Posted by: andycanuck at January 19, 2010 06:19 AM (2qU2d)

144

Here is what we are up to now:

I am going to stop and do some actual work. I will soon become distracted by the election and return. Personal responsibility vs voyeurism.

dagny:  2

Jay in ames: 2

Xoxotl: 2.5

Rawmuse: 3

Burn the witch: 4

Bat chain : 4

Truman North:  4

DSCC: brown +4

Mallamut: 4.3

Jcjimi: 4.5

Sassypants: 5

Dang Straits: 5

Joy to the: 5

Big Fat Meanie:  5

Johnny I: 5.5

Me (rdbrewer):  Brown by 6

Backwardsboy: 6

Doc J: 6

Naturalfake 6.5

Abdominal: 7

Ford: 7

enoxo:  7

Country Squire:  7

Who Knows: 7

LikeATimeBomb:  By 8

arhooley: 8

Never give up: 8

Aerofanatic: 8

SiM:  Brown, 9

Vic: 10

Libertarian Jim: 11

Kemp: 11

Jean:  Brown by 12

Vet Missing Parts: 20

 

Mr. Pink: Coakley 4

An Independent Voter: Coakley 3

 

 

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 06:20 AM (cG9YA)

145 I'm starting to get worried as Intrade has Marcia Marcia Marcia rising.

Posted by: enoxo at January 19, 2010 06:22 AM (eXWg4)

146

Why has Coakley moved up 10 and Brown dropped 10 on Intrade?

Posted by: Marybeth at January 19, 2010 06:22 AM (hBRoa)

147 Is it because of the high turnout?

Posted by: Marybeth at January 19, 2010 06:24 AM (hBRoa)

148

the label "progressive" I think comes from the early 1900s or even 1890s.  Everything in peoples' lives was becoming better through the application of science and technology,  Imagine the revolutions of the car, the electric lightbulb, penicillin! Scientific thinking was all the rage.

Applied to politics, a scientific, top-down approach was called Progressivism- because it literally promised to remake a society in the same way science and technology had remade the world around us.

It did not promise any particular direction of progression...

Posted by: Truman North at January 19, 2010 06:25 AM (e8YaH)

149 I'm calling Brown by 7. Momentum baby!

Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at January 19, 2010 06:25 AM (SLZ0z)

150

Why has Coakley moved up 10 and Brown dropped 10 on Intrade?

Probably because people are cashing out, if I understand InTrade (big if).

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 19, 2010 06:25 AM (e910j)

151 My final prediction 52/46/2 for the good guy, the idiot and the little boy.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at January 19, 2010 06:25 AM (DIYmd)

152

they are saying if Brown wins it is because coakley was a bad candidate to begin with and that the pres did not do a good job of getting his message out and framing the argument for healthcare

That has been the dem talking point for several days now.  The commies are in a state of total denial on the healthscam issue.  Some of them actually think the "people" want this piece of crap.

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 06:25 AM (QrA9E)

153 Although at least 40,000 were requested and required, Obama would authorize only 30,000 troops for Afganistan, and although 500 to 1,000 would have sufficed, Obama authorized 11,000 troops for Haiti, from which I must conclude that, to Obama's way of thinking, propping up a Communist regime in Haiti takes precedence over protecting Americans against terrorists.Or did he have sleazier or more insideous motives for establishing those irresponsible priorities?

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 06:27 AM (ITzbJ)

154

160 Is it because of the high turnout?

Apparently there is a week old Rasmussen poll just outwith Coakley up 2. Most people don't know about how old it is. It also may be intrade itself. Now, I'm upset and can't work

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 06:29 AM (cG9YA)

155

From legal insurrection live:

Early exit polls in the Gardner, Fitchburg and Peabody areas show Brown leading by 14, 17, and 15% points http://bit.ly/6VQh0D

Tuesday January 19, 2010 10:29 Phil_GA

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 06:31 AM (cG9YA)

156 it took him 3 months to talk to the general running the war in Afghanistan and three days to send troops to Haiti.  Democrats love the military, as long as they're not actually, you know, fighting.

Posted by: Truman North at January 19, 2010 06:32 AM (e8YaH)

157 Correction: they were bellweather polls done yesterday. Sorry

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 06:33 AM (cG9YA)

158

Early exit polls in the Gardner, Fitchburg and Peabody areas show Brown leading by 14, 17, and 15% points http://bit.ly/6VQh0D

Totally teh f' awesum!

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 06:33 AM (QrA9E)

159 We're calling it Coakley by +4 (It is Massachusetts, you know, not Georgia or Alabama.)

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 06:33 AM (ITzbJ)

160 That has been the dem talking point for several days now.  The commies are in a state of total denial on the healthscam issue.  Some of them actually think the "people" want this piece of crap.

There's no denying that Coakley IS a bad candidate. Gaffes aside, she's a lackluster personality with an undistinguished record of party hackery.

Thing is, in a normal year, the 'D' next to her name would be enough to get her elected here. Regardless of what they're saying, they know what's going on.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 19, 2010 06:34 AM (z4es9)

Posted by: andycanuck at January 19, 2010 06:38 AM (2qU2d)

162
Hah!  Treacher (or whatever his name is now) makes a good point about "Massachusettes" - can you imagine if Sarah Palin had a political ad that misspelled Alaska?

Posted by: Dang Straights at January 19, 2010 06:38 AM (fx8sm)

163 People with SEIU shirts are standing with people from ACORN shirts. They are trying to intimidate voters to pick Martha Coakley. IÂ’ve taken pictures and will be sending to the Justice Department, Boston Police, and Dem and Rep National Committees.

What the heck is going on? SEIU and ACORN thugs are out in force. The Boston police need to make an appearance. They are trying to strong-arm people to vote for Coakley.

The above two comments are posted on boston globe's website poll comments.

Posted by: enoxo at January 19, 2010 06:41 AM (eXWg4)

164 On a side note , I just got an iPhone. It's great to be able to follow the b log while I'm on a work site today.

Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at January 19, 2010 06:42 AM (SLZ0z)

165

can you imagine if Sarah Palin had a political ad that misspelled Alaska?

Hell, us people in Kansis would be laughing our asses off.

Posted by: HH at January 19, 2010 06:42 AM (1kwr2)

166 Listening to 96.9 Boston Talks, and a guy just said that his polling place has surpassed ballot numbers used in the Presidential Election, (two hours ago, over 500) and it's Brown Country.

Posted by: enoxo at January 19, 2010 06:42 AM (eXWg4)

167 It hard to know what is going on.  All my dem/lib BO fanboy/girl friends have said that they have always been "insturcted to lie to the pollsters" and "only to state the talking points".   I always love that word "instructed".

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 06:45 AM (p302b)

168 Brown +6

Posted by: Andy at January 19, 2010 06:46 AM (5Rurq)

169 "178 On a side note , I just got an iPhone. It's great to be able to follow the b log while I'm on a work site today.

Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at January 19, 2010 10:42 AM (SLZ0z)"

Your life will be forever changed. 

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 06:47 AM (p302b)

170

they are saying if Brown wins it is because coakley was a bad candidate to begin with and that the pres  Press did not do a good job of getting his message out and framing the argument for healthcare

FIFY. 

Posted by: moi at January 19, 2010 06:47 AM (7FgWm)

171 Listening to 96.9 Boston Talks, and a guy just said that his polling place has surpassed ballot numbers used in the Presidential Election, (two hours ago, over 500) and it's Brown Country.

Despite the shitty weather, turnout is going to be huge. Even in my little town it was hard to find a parking place.

Posted by: Andy at January 19, 2010 06:47 AM (5Rurq)

172 45,000 Haitians to Florida? The Democrats are serious about winning Florida next election I see.

Posted by: brak at January 19, 2010 06:48 AM (W5NBA)

173 Posted by: brak at January 19, 2010 10:48 AM (W5NBA)

that doesn't include NY right?   We know from the JFK airport incident that a "new haitian immigrant" opened the wrong door.  So how many are going to NY and other states?   I guess they are going to balance out the somalis who have apparently no limits.

Posted by: curious at January 19, 2010 06:51 AM (p302b)

174

Turnout here in Seekonk was bigger than 2008.  370 voted cast at 835, which is more than what we had cast in that election. 

 

Two turdy old people with Coakley signs at the entrance and a little SEIU sign.  I gave them a smile, and the finger.

Posted by: Truman North at January 19, 2010 06:51 AM (e8YaH)

175 AJ Mama called it Brown by 10 way way upthread but isn't on the predictors list.

I'm revising my call to Brown by 13 since nobody else has called that spot.

Posted by: Little Miss Factcheck at January 19, 2010 06:52 AM (xqhoO)

176

http://tinyurl.com/yjs2t96

Handing out blank absentee ballots

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 06:52 AM (cG9YA)

177

dagny:  2

Jay in ames: 2

Xoxotl: 2.5

Rawmuse: 3

Burn the witch: 4

Bat chain : 4

Truman North:  4

DSCC: brown +4

Mallamut: 4.3

Jcjimi: 4.5

Sassypants: 5

Dang Straits: 5

Joy to the: 5

Big Fat Meanie:  5

Johnny I: 5.5

Andy: 6

Guy Fawks: 6

Me (rdbrewer):  Brown by 6

Backwardsboy: 6

Doc J: 6

Naturalfake 6.5

Abdominal: 7

Ford: 7

enoxo:  7

Country Squire:  7

Who Knows: 7

Outlaw: 7

LikeATimeBomb:  By 8

arhooley: 8

Never give up: 8

Aerofanatic: 8

SiM:  Brown, 9

AJ Mama:10

Miss Factcheck: 13

Vic: 10

Libertarian Jim: 11

Kemp: 11

Jean:  Brown by 12

Vet Missing Parts: 20

 

Mr. Pink: Coakley 4

Reality check : Coakley 4

An Independent Voter: Coakley 3

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 06:54 AM (cG9YA)

178

I take this as a good omen.  Call it the Luck Of The Irish!

 

This Day In History

January 19, 1974

Notre Dame beats UCLA to end 88-game winning streak

On January 19, 1974, the University of Notre Dame menÂ’s basketball team defeats the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 71-70, in South Bend, Indiana, snapping UCLAÂ’s record-setting 88-game winning streak.

The Irish entered the game undefeated for the season and ranked No. 2 in the country. UCLA, coached by John Wooden and led by the future Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, held the No. 1 ranking. Despite injuring his back in a fall the previous week against Washington State, Walton played all 40 minutes of the game, wearing an elastic brace. He performed impressively, scoring 24 points and grabbing nine rebounds.

With three and a half minutes left in the game, the Irish were trailing by 11 points when they began an aggressive press that caught UCLA off guard. Notre Dame won the next 12 points, spurred by the play of center John Shumate (24 points), guard Gary Brokaw (25 points) and Dwight Clay, who scored the winning two points on a jump shot from the right corner, with 29 seconds remaining. When Walton missed a 12-foot shot in the final seconds, the game was over--as was UCLAÂ’s long streak of wins. Many in the stunned crowd of 11,343 at Notre DameÂ’s Athletic and Convocation Center rushed onto the court to congratulate Coach Digger Phelps and the victorious players. "This was great for college basketball," Phelps told the press. "IÂ’m sure everyone was rooting for us the way they used to root against the New York Yankees." It was the second big Irish upset that season, coming just three weeks after Notre DameÂ’s football team beat Alabama in a thrilling Sugar Bowl to gain the No. 1 spot.

The Irish played a pivotal role at several points in UCLAÂ’s historic streak. The BruinsÂ’ last loss had been on January 23, 1971, in South Bend. The previous year, the Bruins had broken the collegiate record for consecutive wins with their 61st straight victory--over Notre Dame. A week after their streak ended, the Walton Gang would get revenge, beating PhelpsÂ’ squad 94-75 in a return game at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles to regain the No. 1 ranking.

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 19, 2010 06:54 AM (qD3QA)

179 Enjoy reading the comments at Boston Globe's website poll comments.  Seems most of the people posting there voted Brown.  Even most Coakley supporters mention that Brown supporters visibly outnumber Coakley supporters by a wide margin.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 19, 2010 06:56 AM (U37Ux)

180

Poll Watchers

http://tinyurl.com/yzqsfy9

Posted by: Tipsy McStagger, somewhere down in Texas at January 19, 2010 07:01 AM (9oNaP)

181 ABC radio news keeps playing a clip where they interview a very gay Coakley voter. Not sure what they are saying....and it's not Barney

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 07:02 AM (cG9YA)

182

Think about it:

According to this administration and the Democrats in Congress themselves, here we are in such a terrible recession that it comes close to the depression of the 1930's, and yet they're trying to impose an enormously expensive healthcare package that most people don't want, just to provide coverage for about 4% of the people who already receive indigent care, and they're sending 11,000 troops to Haiti, although a fraction of that number would suffice. (Never mind the failed so calloed Stimulus package, etc. etc.)

Somehow the words, extravagant and wasteful and extremely irresponswible, don't adequately describe those slimy Democrats, who are now allowing the Black Caucus, to take over control of this country's domestic and foreign policies; i.e., on phony pretexts, they're now providing reparations for people of color all over the world, determined to revengefully turn the USA into a Third World country, also.

The words, evil and slimy and very sick, don't adequately describe those mean, vicious and hateful miscreants either - all of whom are ingrates, also. 

But that's just our opinion. You are entitled to disagree.

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 07:04 AM (ITzbJ)

183

Soooo....  11am on the east coast, and not a single update or exit poll. 

I guess I'll have to go troll some MSM sites and try to find out whats going on. 

Man, AoS is not only my go-to blog for all important info, but I've let myself expect that all info will magically appear here in real time, as if there is a big staff of people keeping the blog up to date.  That's my bad.  Sorry Ace and co-bloggers.

Posted by: Terry at January 19, 2010 07:07 AM (yGmLl)

184

Boston Herald.com:

A fast-circulating e-mail yesterday by the conservative Washington News Alert stoked fraud fears, suggesting liberal groups such as ACORN and Coakley supporters could pose as one of more than 100,000 dead people supposedly on voter rolls to cast ballots for the attorney general.

“The ability to vote as dead people is a realistic concern,” said Bill Wilson, president of the conservative Americans for Limited Government in Fairfax, Va.

But Secretary of State William F. Galvin, whose office oversees elections, said there is no problem with dead voters: TheyÂ’re removed from the voting lists sent to cities and towns, he insisted.

Beck talks about this and posts Galvin's photo in his hard-hitting and wide-ranging show yesterday.  The Galvin segment starts near the end of clip 1.  From glennbeckclips.com:

http://tinyurl.com/y9wte5z

 

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 19, 2010 07:08 AM (qD3QA)

Posted by: maddogg at January 19, 2010 07:09 AM (OlN4e)

186

Today is January 19. On this date exactly ten years ago, in 2000, Michael Skakel was charged with the 1975 bludgeoning death of Martha Moxley.

It don't get no more prophetic than that, right there.

Posted by: comatus at January 19, 2010 07:12 AM (/VEEI)

187 Brown +5. Coakley will surge a bit on the SEIU factor, but Brown has too much momentum to be stopped.

Posted by: joncelli at January 19, 2010 07:13 AM (RD7QR)

188 Comment reported from a Coakley voter on the Boston Globe's Pollwatcher:

"There was a long line in Worcester. Mostly Coakley supporters. A few Brown lost souls with frozen drool coming out of their mouth."

I give him/her a B+ for judgement but an A+ for snark. My unscientific take on the pollwatcher reports: heavy voting for Brown, not so much for whatsername.

Posted by: TommieJoe at January 19, 2010 07:14 AM (CKW49)

189

But Secretary of State William F. Galvin, whose office oversees elections, said there is no problem with dead voters:

I don't know why, but that just cracks me up. In so many ways.

Posted by: HH at January 19, 2010 07:16 AM (1kwr2)

190

http://tinyurl.com/ykm9mkw
This is a long list of comments by poll watchers. One of the Coakley supporters who ran into traffic wants to know why they can't vote on-line?

Yeah, that wouldn't be a problem

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 07:17 AM (cG9YA)

191 Well, here's hoping. Even if he doesn't pull it off, the momentum is still going our way. And the infighting has stared on the left...

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 19, 2010 07:17 AM (Be4xl)

192

Dead voters are never a problem. They always vote the way Democrats want them to.

Posted by: maddogg at January 19, 2010 07:18 AM (OlN4e)

193

not so much for whatsername.
Marcia

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 07:18 AM (cG9YA)

194

Palin tweet:

MA Senate Race: HereÂ’s Hoping Mr. Brown goes to WashingtonÂ… In a pick-up truck,no less!
MA please vote tomorrow & elect a hardworking independent.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Massachusetts today.
Help keep this country free.

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 19, 2010 07:19 AM (qD3QA)

195

#199 Posted by: maddogg at January 19, 2010 11:09 AM (OlN4e)

Good. I was afraid the idiot might wise up or go all Slick Willie after 94. Barry's arrogance will be his undoing. I HOPE that he nevers loses it.

Posted by: TheQuietman at January 19, 2010 07:19 AM (1Jaio)

196

War game trounces Avatar $1b sales

"IT WAS big news when James Cameron's movie Avatar broke the $1 billion mark in worldwide sales. But a computer game has quietly achieved the same success, becoming one of the rare entertainment properties to cross the 10-figure threshold...."


Click my name or fix the link manually if it doesn't work.

Posted by: Looking Glass at January 19, 2010 07:23 AM (4nPBL)

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Which one was the taxpayer's biggest expense this month?

A. Financing the war in Afganistan to protect Americans against terrorists.

B. Financial aid to Haiti to prop up and to protect a Communist regime,

C. Buying votes for Democrats in Massachusetts.

D. Skimming money from government projects to put that money in the    pockets of politicians and their campaign contributors. 

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 07:24 AM (ITzbJ)

198

199, 210

He will just issue an executive order on HC and make himself Emperor for life at the same time .

Posted by: VELVET AMBITION at January 19, 2010 07:25 AM (xLMtq)

199

Philly born, bred, adn still captive. I do not listen to Smerconish, too whiny for me, even before his "growth" into an Obamabot.

 

Overall, in town, there's nothing at all being discussed about Mass. It may as well not even be happening.

Posted by: Luca Brasi at January 19, 2010 07:27 AM (YmPwQ)

200

If this does happen, get ready for more Chicago Machine Politics.  From PajamaMedia.Com:

The Politico reports its sources indicate that President Obama will up the ante if Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts Senate seat. There will be no retreat, no watering down of the agenda.

The strategy will be a militant campaign to blame all future problems on the past administration by casting the Republicans as the architects of disaster and the protectors of the banking industry: wreckers and saboteurs standing in the way of Hope.

A couple of days ago I wrote that the President had a tendency to raise the stakes whenever he was losing. It was always all or nothing. And now if nothing, then his tendency will be to put the blame on the opposition.

Governance will probably be a low priority in the coming year. The fundamental theme of 2010 will be a struggle for power. If it is already evident that unemployment numbers are not going to decrease and that the New Year will be more challenging than 2009 then the strategy of pushing the Promised Land into a future where Republicans have been eliminated from the scene is a viable one. It is also a semi-revolutionary one.

Obama's ideas are old in the worst of ways; not as in validated by long weathering but as in repeatedly rejected by history. But they are all he has. And the really scary thing about his aloofness and indifference is that he may really live in a place that you canÂ’t go.

So my guess is that while he has no money and no prospect of getting any, the President knows only one move: double down again.

 

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 19, 2010 07:27 AM (qD3QA)

201 I'm in for 7.5. I think ACORN is only good for about a half percent today. They see the handwriting on the wall, and won't waste all their resources in a losing effort.

Posted by: Tipping Point at January 19, 2010 07:29 AM (GlDK0)

202 The strategy will be a militant campaign to blame all future problems on the past administration by casting the Republicans as the architects of disaster and the protectors of the banking industry: wreckers and saboteurs standing in the way of Hope.

So much for a post-partisan president bringing us all together.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 19, 2010 07:32 AM (z4es9)

203
... casting the Republicans JOOOOOS!!! as the architects of disaster and the protectors of the banking industry: wreckers and saboteurs standing in the way of Hope

Boy that crap sure does sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Posted by: Dang Straights at January 19, 2010 07:33 AM (fx8sm)

204

@ 215

Soooo...business as usual then?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 19, 2010 07:33 AM (U37Ux)

205 The strategy will be a militant campaign

Bring the heat, Meat.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 19, 2010 07:36 AM (VGeGl)

206 Can a president be impeached for gross incompetence, or just for getting blow jobs from chubby, little interns in the oval office?

Posted by: Reality Check Here at January 19, 2010 07:37 AM (ITzbJ)

207

The strategy will be a militant campaign to blame all future problems on the past administration by casting the Republicans as the architects of disaster and the protectors of the banking industry: wreckers and saboteurs standing in the way of Hope.

So wat else is new?  That was the Coakley campagn in a nutshell AND her speech just before Bambi came on Sunday. Let them keep on with that message, if it killed them in MA it will destroy them everywhere else.

Keep on runing against the evil Bush/Cheney that everyone wishes we had back.

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 07:38 AM (QrA9E)

208

So much for a post-partisan partum president bringing us all together.

Fify.

Posted by: HH at January 19, 2010 07:38 AM (1kwr2)

209

the protectors of the banking industry

Coming from someone who is totally in the back pocket of "the bankers"...

Posted by: teej at January 19, 2010 07:45 AM (QdUKm)

210

LOL, Boston TV-5 on-line poll rfor how many phone calls did you get?

Overwhelming vote > 10.

 

Posted by: Vic at January 19, 2010 07:47 AM (QrA9E)

211 Thank you Mallamutt. I was starting to feel unappreciated but decided to take one for the team. Sniff....

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 07:47 AM (cG9YA)

212 dagny, I'll take Brown by 13, and stick with my prediction yesterday that FNC will predict his win based on exit polls alone within 10 minutes of the polls closing tonight (before O'Reilly's first commercial break if he isn't pre-empted by some form of election special).

Posted by: Methos at January 19, 2010 07:48 AM (Xsi7M)

213 So President Wookieboinker's big move for the day: Expedited protected status for Haitian illegals. Clarifies his priorities:

1) Working papers for Haitians
2) Jobs for Americans

Any questions?


Posted by: Little Miss Factcheck at January 19, 2010 07:50 AM (xqhoO)

214

  Way late, but it's news to me.

  AP Declares Obama "Kenyan-born" on June 27, 2004

"Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations."

and

"It should be noted that on January 8, 2006, the Honolulu Advertiser also reported that Barack Hussein Obama was born outside the United States."

Posted by: Looking Glass at January 19, 2010 07:51 AM (4nPBL)

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So many people are on the legal insurrection live blog that he has to suspend it for awhile. That probably means nothing in state but sure means a lot of people are paying attention.

I wonder how many people outside the belt way grasp the 60 seat fillibuster proof majority and how many don't give a shit. It's not much of a platform on which to run.

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 07:51 AM (cG9YA)

216 Moving the poll to the new Scott Brown thread

Posted by: dagny at January 19, 2010 07:53 AM (cG9YA)

217

Snips from the WSJ today:

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of President Obama's Inaugural, and it's worth recalling the extraordinary political opportunity he had a year ago...

Twelve months later, Mr. Obama's approval rating has fallen further and faster than any recent President's, Congress is despised, the public mood has shifted sharply to the right on the role of government, and a Republican could pick up a Senate seat in a state with no GOP Members of Congress and that Mr. Obama carried by 26 points.

What explains this precipitous political fall? Democrats and their media allies attribute it to GOP obstructionism, though Republicans lack the votes to stop anything by themselves. Or they blame their own Blue Dogs, who haven't stopped or even significantly modified any legislation of consequence.

Or they blame an economic agenda that wasn't populist or liberal enough because it didn't nationalize banks and spend even more on "stimulus." It takes a special kind of delusion to believe, amid a popular revolt against too much government spending and debt, that another $1 trillion would have made all the difference. But that's the latest left-wing theme.

The real message of Massachusetts is that Democrats have committed the classic political mistake of ideological overreach. Mr. Obama won the White House in part on his personal style and cool confidence amid a recession and an unpopular war. Yet liberals in Congress interpreted their victory as a mandate to repeal more or less the entire post-1980 policy era and to fulfill, at last, their dream of turning the U.S. into a cradle-to-grave entitlement state.

(The most powerful democrats) are all creatures of the Great Society and what was called the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s. They have spent their lives in government and know almost nothing about the private sector or how to grow an economy. They view the Reagan era as an historical aberration, and they have stayed in Washington for decades precisely in wait of this moment to realize 40-years of pent-up policy ambition. They believe this is their 1965, or 1933.

It is the combination of all of these and other policies that has ignited the political revolt we are now seeing in Massachusetts, and first saw last November in Virginia and New Jersey. Had Democrats modified their agenda to nurture a fragile economy and financial system, they could now claim their policies worked and build on them later.

Instead, their frenetic agenda has frightened voters and businesses about the vast expansion of government power and enormous tax increases to come. The resulting uncertainty and the anticipation of higher costs for labor, taxes and energy have undermined what ought to be a more robust pace of job creation and overall recovery.  

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 19, 2010 07:56 AM (qD3QA)

218 The polling place video Fox is looping while that the news actors babble over the pictures is perplexing. We see one woman's legs standing at a voting booth for like ninety seconds. Lady, there's three names and three boxes! No complicated propositions you need to read through. No multi-page butterfly ballot. Three. Freaking. Names.


Posted by: Little Miss Factcheck at January 19, 2010 08:02 AM (xqhoO)

219 Oh my gosh, I couldn't sleep last night, I was thinking about this election.  Hopefully, Right will prevail and the Democrats won't succeed in stealing this election (if Martha wins, you know they cheated).  Thank you all you Massachusettes Morons for getting out and voting despite the inclement weather.  You guys are true patriots, and you guys rock!  I will be praying for Scott Brown all day.  Ooh, Rush is coming on now...

Posted by: runningrn at January 19, 2010 08:06 AM (CfmlF)

220 No one bought that post partisan uniting us bullshit except the democrats because they really thought obama was a god and that the rest of us heathans would see the light and convert to the obama jesus.

Posted by: moi at January 19, 2010 08:22 AM (7FgWm)

221

The polling place video Fox is looping while that the news actors babble over the pictures is perplexing. We see one woman's legs standing at a voting booth for like ninety seconds. Lady, there's three names and three boxes! No complicated propositions you need to read through. No multi-page butterfly ballot. Three. Freaking. Names.

This IS the same state that re-sent and re-sends lumiaries like Teddy Kennedy and Bawney Fwank.


 

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