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Scott Brown Goes To 11

Believe It Or Not, Brown Can Win This Thing

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  January 15th, 2010 at 08:19 PM  | 

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Too good to check: Jim Geraghty hears that Scott Brown’s campaign has internal polls showing him up 11 points:

I’m getting the sense that the folks hearing this are almost a little incredulous, but it seems every demographic and key group is breaking to Brown in the past day or two.

Geraghty also notes conflicting reports that Martha Coakley‘s internal polls show her either even or 3 points back.

At this point, it’s hard to know what to make of any of the polls, given the unique situation of a special election in January; nobody should be counting chickens for a Republican in Massachusetts, ever. But this can’t be bad news. Now, it will be up to President Obama’s visit on the Sunday of a 3-day holiday weekend to save Martha Coakley’s bacon. If she loses decisively, it may be the last invitation he gets this year.

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  • http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/ DerKrieger

    …except to say that I refuse to get my hopes up. With Ozero going up there this would make a Brown win even more awesomely super awesome.

    Teddy, Obama, and socialized health care repudiated all in a single election!

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    Based solely on the title, I thought this was what you were saying. Turns out he’s up by 11 literally as well.

  • bs

    Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
    Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

  • proudgop

    keep on fighting away!

    • redtillimdead

      Remember what happened in NY-23? We all thought it was in the bag. Lets not make the same mistake this time.

  • ashen

    who art in Heaven
    hallowed be Thy Name
    Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done
    on Earth as it is in Heaven
    give us this our Daily Bread
    and lead us not into Temptation
    but deliver us from Evil
    Forgive us our Trespasses
    as we forgive those who Trespass against us
    For Thine is The Kingdom
    and The Power
    and Glory Forever
    Amen

    • ktsub

      Amen

  • spainishirish

    If memory doesn’t fail, not certain these days, he is 0-2, Crank.

    • jen2001

      Olympic bid, Climate Change Treaty, and Corzine, Total failure.

      • swami7774

        0-for-4.

        • jen2001

          I am sure there will be many more.

    • http://www.USRevolution2.com usrevolution2

      The Democrats should tell Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton to stay home and send in AL GORE! Clearly, this is REAL climate change, not caused by cooked data! I’m so excited, I’m outside right now spraying CFCs in the air over Detroit, Michigan. CLIMATE CHANGE NOW! (If Bill Clinton goes to Massachusetts, he will see two earthquakes iin two weeks?!)

      AL GORE! AL GORE! AL GORE!

      Sincerely,

      Jeff McQueen
      www.USRevolution2.com

      • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

        …

        • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

          I didn’t read the last sentence about the natural disaster. Other than that, I liked the post.

          • muffin

            Tried finding it on the net. No luck. Thanks!

          • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

            http://archive.redstate.com/stories/miscellanea/pulling_a_kowalski

          • muffin

            Thanks for the definition! My feeble brain couldn’t quite figure it out.

    • redtillimdead

      Copenhagen- NO olympics
      Campaign for Corzine in NJ- CHRISTIE wins
      Campaign for Deeds in VA- McDonnell wins
      does NOT campaign for Owens in NY-23- Owens wins
      I like this record. Just wish Obama had gone to NY-23

  • katnandu

    When I first read a headline saying “President Obama to Mass on Sunday, I seriously thought it meant church to pray for those in Haiti. Anyway, maybe those in Mass should take the opportunity on Sunday to protest the healthcare bill so he can see how those outside of the beltway feel about gov’t run healthcare. Just an idea……….

  • Sundayjack

    The Suffolk poll was polling the average of Monday-Wednesday . Scott Brown is clearly surging. That would necessarily suggest that his poll numbers are going UP. Today, they absolutely should be higher. It will be interesting what PPP tells us this weekend.

    Barack’s appearance on Sunday is still a wildcard, but only for GOTV. There’s no one in this state who will switch or move from undecided simply because the president appeared.

    • swami7774

      …might be that the Coakley negative ad assault didn’t really kick into warp speed until Tuesday. So the Suffolk poll might not catch the full effect of the negative onslaught–whatever it is.

      Anecdotally, I’ve heard many Dems and indies say they’re tuning out the ad wars because they are so numerous they’re blending into one big noise.
      Which is good for Brown, because he began picking up speed just before the ad war commenced. The tune-out factor also could hold turnout down, another plus.

      • Sundayjack

        I’m here in Massachusetts. The number of negative ads has almost reached joke level. Fair point on the timing, though. On the other hand, the debate was Tuesday, and Martha’s Weekly Standard knockdown was Wednesday. Tough to say where things have broken.

        On the other hand, the Coakley ad buys have been insane. At noon today, there was a Coakley negative ad. Immediately after it ended, Rush’s opening music kicked in. Wasted money. And yesterday, Scott Brown was on talk radio all morning, and Martha’s negative ads were playing in commercial breaks. He was literally able to rebut every negative point in real time. Crazy wasted money.

        This is tough to explain because I’ve never felt this in Massachusetts, but you can FEEL momentum breaking, It’s suddenly okay to talk well about Republicans in polite society. I don’t know how that translates in poll numbers, but I just don’t see ANY vocal Coakley supporters.

        • Sundayjack

          That should say “Anectdotal,” of course. Heh.

          • 6eorge Jetson

            :)

        • swami7774

          Where in MA are you? And what kind of candidate visibility do you see in your area?

          • Sundayjack

            But bordering on both Plymouth and Bristol Counties also. Scott hasn’t been in my area recently, but he visited my Rep Town Committee months ago. Two dozen people and a candidate working hard for every single vote. Plenty of signs sprinkled around. I’ve passed the same ONE Coakley sign on my way to work since September.

            It will be interesting when I go to vote and see the number on the counter. I know so many people prepared to crawl through broken glass to vote for Scott Brown.

          • The_Rebel

            in the northern section. Most people are unaware that Norfolk County is known as the County of Presidents, since it is the birthplace of four Presidents of the United States.

            On my way to work in Weymouth, I see few if any Coakley signs where in 2008 there were many Obama signs on the same lawns. And there are quite a few Scott Brown signs in areas of Weymouth where I would not expect to see them.

            As I said elsewhere earlier today, some Dems who don’t like Coakley are telling me they are not going to vote. These are hard-core Dems who would not vote for a Republican, no matter who that person was. Another good anocdotal sign.

          • The_Rebel

            n/t

          • swami7774

            …do I get props for using “anecdotally”?

          • hickorystick

            John Adams and his “selected not elected” son, JFK, and who else?

          • The_Rebel

            who was born in Milton.

        • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

          .

      • Swamp_Yankee

        … If I were on the cape I head out there for a pint.

  • medamorphus

    This is too important to do anything but double up on all efforts to make sure we do everything possible to win. We can’t take anything for granted. There can be no ” if we would’ve only done’s” on this one. If we crush them, so much the better. We have to be “all in” on this one. This is Waterloo for Obama.

    • earlgrey

      We will always be behind. We are just hoping we get lucky.

  • joliefleurs

    but I sure like to think about making the Dems smell the glove.

  • Brian_Roastbeef

    Yep. DOOM.

    And the prospect of Brown winning by double digits, and with Obama putting himself on the line, isn’t just DOOM. That’s downright DOOM II – an even better game in my opinion.

    I really hope PPP or somebody shows some more support for this poll. I’m a little nervous about Obama heading there this weekend. Hopefully that info about him actually hurting the candidate is correct, but just in case it isn’t I’d like to see Brown have a little breathing room against any late Coakley push.

    As of last week, I was figuring this wasn’t about winning Mass. as much as it was about boosting our chances against Bayh, Boxer, Gillibrand. Now it seems to me as if Brown has indeed moved ahead and that its Coakley that needs to make ground in a hurry. Now, I’ve never been one to show a lot of optimism about much of anything, but even the events of this past week have been quite impressive. I just hope it can all pay off on Tuesday, and if not… maybe it will at least be close enough to get Pataki more interested in the NY Senate race.

  • swami7774

    He’s making a tour of the South Shore and Cape Cod. Good move. He owns the Cape(where I live) and must maximize his turnout there. He should do very well on the South Shore(especially Plymouth County) where there are tons of voters who are perfect recipients of his happy-warrior populist appeal.

    He shouldn’t waste a lot of time in the cities; they won’t go for him, and appearing there might drive up Coakley’s turnout.

    • khayos

      I can’t wait. I hope we have a surprising turnout like the tea party last year!

      Also noticing a phenomenon among the thirty-somethings like myself who are really energized. Many of us have even changed our Facebook profile pictures to support Senator Brown!

      • swami7774

        I’ve already got a standing spot picked out.

        • khayos

          But we drove down Main Steet honking the horn as much as possible!

  • The_Only_Woj

    stop Obamacare!

  • http://www.jeannie-ology.com jeannieology

    Studly Super-Hero Scott Brown
    http://jeannie-ology.com/?p=5043

  • http://www.USRevolution2.com usrevolution2

    Folks:

    The Democrats should tell Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton to stay home, and send in AL GORE! Clearly, this is REAL CLIMATE CHANGE, not caused by cooked data! I’m so excited, I’m outside right now, spraying CFCs over Detroit, Michigan. CLIMATE CHANGE NOW!

    Love,

    Jeff McQueen
    www.USRevolution2.com

    • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

      Love it. From the time-stamp, it looks like you beat me to this.

  • Mayhem

    The fluctuating polls is due largely to the fact that no body knows what the make up of turnout will look like. Everyone is just giving their best guess, including Brown and Coakley’s campaigns.

    I’ve commented before that a 55-45 Brown win on Tuesday is very much in the cards. In fact, I think it’s likely unless the negative ads bring some Dems back to home base. We’ll see. Either way, I don’t think it will be “close.”

    • The_Rebel

      it wouldn’t shock me if they cooked up some nefarious January surprise that would put Brown on the defensive in the remaining days just trying to refute it.

      As I commented to you earlier today, I think you are right on the winning margin, although I predicted a 12-13 point win.

    • IJB

      The one exception was the PJM/CrossTarget (R) poll which has Brown up 15%, and is too good to be true.

      But Coakley has been between 46-49% pretty steadily all along in virtually all the polls on this race.

      It’s Brown’s numbers that have jumped around – I suspect support for Brown in a state like MA is harder to measure.

      Anyway, hopefully Coakley is at 45% and trending down – if that’s the case, she’ll lose: it’s as simple as that.

      • http://twitter/CherylAnnCA Cheryl

        and isn’t that the magic number? Seems I read somewhere that if you didn’t have at least a couple results over 50% the odds are not good at all.

        Scott’s had at least at or over, Rssmussen and Suffolk.

        • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

          but I sure Pray Brown gets 51% somehow…. if Kennedy pulls too much away, the Libertarians may well again give away that 60th Cloture vote back just when there was this one-off chance to grab it away. That last number needs to be as close to 0 as possible.

          • The_Gadfly

            If it is only 51% you can count on ACORN, SEIU, et Al to steal it.

            Probably still a seismic shock to the Dems even after they steal it, but a clean win is still best.

          • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

            I’ve searched the Internet for about 10 minutes and can’t find anything on this question relating to MA. Can anyone help me out?

          • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

            if they think that Croakley may lose, but Brown not get the 50%+1 because of the Independent Candidate… they may change it that morning to call/force a run-off — gives them a win either way if they can drag it out. Right? lol They’ve changed so many times over the last few years to suit the needs of Democrats, sure no reason they wouldn’t pull it if they knew they needed to.

            Seriously though, I don’t know the answer to that, but certainly haven’t seen/heard anyone raise that as a requirement yet.

          • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

            I haven’t seen anything about this either, so not based on anything else, I’m thinking it’s just a pluarlity. After my most recent plea for a link, I continued searching but still haven’t found anything. I know Georgia, and I believe Louisianna, require a majoirty, but haven’t found the requirements for MA, even on the Commonwealth’s website.

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    don’t recall where that was originally….

    we can’t allow the MSM floating anything/everything to shape the turnout to effect our drive to ensure EVERY potential Brown vote gets to the Polls to overcome the legitimate and ACORN manipulation that will ensue.
    Early voting – Early- (and the new Late-) Voting trends
    +Psych&Bias – Voting Psychology (Bandwagon and other effects) coupled with MSM bias attempts to mold/shape turnout
    +MSM challenge – The “Pretend you’re a Liberal MSM reporter (and Spin the story)” Challenge [Aug.2009 updated]

    And, I had always warned with the whole BLAGO/BURRIS situations that we as Republicans tread lightly as to the verbiage we used and positions we staked out….. There will now be positions/comments from both Dems/Repubs that will come back to haunt them/us if this does become a real issue of positioning/posturing…..
    Blago/Burris
    +Special Elections – All States should amend laws to require some form of Special Elections
    …. and we’d better learn from it and again be careful the positions and verbiage we adopt with concern for future situations when/where roles may reverse! Which, we sure as heck all should hope, we’d never put ourselves into a position to even consider such pathetic tactics…. but again, past comments, sometimes come back to haunt!!!

  • izoneguy

    Not anymore!!! Crank it up to 11 & beyond!!!

  • massreddog

    A politically active liberal friend in Mass told me today that he was scheduled to work Coakley’s phone bank this week and didn’t show. He feels she has already lost the election and working the phone bank would be a waste of his time. He says he’ll be holding his nose and voting for Coakley. Hopefully, the nose holders stay home on Tuesday.

    • izoneguy

      So he will pass out and miss the vote.

      • Third Street

        It’ll make things much easier on him when the returns start coming in.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    Is this woman out of touch or what. Outsiders mya not know how much the Red Sox mean here. But this is pure blasphemy:

    • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

      : )

    • joliefleurs

      Somebody needs to slip Bucky Dent into a conversation with her somehow….

      • rsss

        Memo to talk show hosts interviewing Coakley: just mention any stories/players/games that involve the Red Sox &/or Yankees, or for that matter anything related to sports. Guaranteed she will expand her mouth to make room for her foot!

    • Beasley Beesmeal

      great vid!

    • Aaron Gardner
      • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

        NT

    • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

      • discerningconservative
      • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

        When your opponent is making a fool out of themselves, get out of the way.

        • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

          but the stupidity of the folks who will still show up to pull the JackAss lever because someone from SEIU, ACORN, etc… picks them up by van. If any of the Democrats used there brains this would be no contest — but we know they don’t and won’t use their brains.

        • http://stixblog.com Black River Wolf

          Ok this has got to be the Rovian Mind control No one from MASS is that stupid; This is blasphemy in Boston.

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
      • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

        Facepalm

        Photobucket

      • mbecker908
      • Beasley Beesmeal

        5

      • Mary Beth

        There are times when a politician says something so stupid that words are irrelevant.

        Martha Coakley is the kind of politician that renders the masses mute quite regularly.

        Except for the spluttering peals of helpless laughter of course.

    • Bedell

      Stunned. What a wonderful candidate!

    • 6eorge Jetson

      • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

        so he could have been their nominee and would have given them that last minute Race-baiting — the way Coo-coo-ley keeps putting her foot in her mouth everytime it opens they can’t count on the Female Identity Politics they were counting on (the big trend they’ve been using to deliver a few percentage points) to make much difference.

    • Third Street

    • langhorne

      of course her hacks are claiming she made a bad joke,

      but I just listened to it- and you can hear her say “a yankee fan… no?” when she gets pushback from the host.

      she had no idea he played for the Red Sox.. this is her THIRD insult of Fenway/Sox..

      come on Curt, now is your time to hit one out of the park!!

    • swami7774

      So now she’s insulted the Sox twice.
      This campaign will go into the books for teaching future candidates how NOT to win elections.

  • Brian_Roastbeef

    I try to rip on Coakley, but any ridiculous scenario I come up with, she just manages to top.

    She seriously needs to stay away from sports. This is more pathetic than Hillary’s Yankee cap.

  • muffin
    • The_Gadfly

      having it in up to your knee cap.

  • immortal_fish

    MA native here. Fall River.

    My son is 18 and this is the first time he can and will vote. He was a staunch Obama supporter before he became eligible.

    …understatement? Given the short window of time.

    Brown’s a RINO and we’ll have to keep an eye on him like the Maine sistahs. Yet way, WAY better to have him than the alternative.

    ~Fish

    • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

      I’m even thinking the Maine twins are better.
      *shudder*

      • immortal_fish

        Better than Choke-ley?

        • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway
        • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

          Don’t be absurd.

          How could you possibly think any Democrat would be a superior choice?

    • 6eorge Jetson

      than the entire remainder of his career.

    • Swamp_Yankee

      Charlton Memorial. Robeson Street. My Mom’s side of the family is Fall Reeve Blood.

      In fact, I stopped for a few beers at the Belmont Club last night.

      • proudgop

        blue collar cities like Fall River or New Bedford

        did you notice a lot of activity for her in the city?

      • immortal_fish

        Ain’t it great that chow mein is actually CHOW MEIN again?

  • jccbin

    is bad??

    In the state where the very term was born?

    During the founding of our nation?

    Snark On. Oh, yes. Let’s say everyone who thinks the Statue of Liberty is a good thing is a low-life sex-pervert, while standing at the base of that statue.

    Let’s proclaim all the Philadephiers who like the idea of the Liberty Bell being in town to be scumbags.

    Dear Dems, please continue to insult the Jefferson Memorial or the Washington Monument or Mount Rushmore or every soldier who fought for this country or everyone who willingly says the Pledge of Allegiance – and means it.

    It just fits who they are a heart so much better than a code pink t-shirt.

    snark off.

    • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

      but otherwise, better for us…. They just keep up that warped Angry mob, Hitler ref, Astroturf, etc…. bs that only their moronic ultra-left base buys now….

      While they try to link Brown to TEApeaters, good for us/Brown, the Libtards keep trying to disassociate Brown and link Kennedy to the TEApeat movement as they look to again throw another election to the Democrats in Sacraficing the Good in the Absence (in their pea-brains) of the Perfect!!!

      The more the Libtards and Dem’s keep it up, the better! They just further expose their silliness to anyone that might be remotely still actually Independent and undecided.

  • swami7774

    Wouldn’t surprise me if some trumped-up hit piece is splashed above the fold tomorrow…just in time for Obama to wave the paper during his visit here.

  • sharonmcp

    With the 60th “filibuster-proof” Senate seat now hanging precariously in the balance, I’m sure you’ll be delighted to hear that the winner will now be whoever Diebold declares it to be. The near-entirety of the state will vote next Tuesday on paper ballots to be counted by Diebold op-scan systems. The same ones used dubiously in the New Hampshire Primary in 2008, and the same ones notoriously hacked — resulting in a flipped mock election — in HBO’s Emmy-nominated Hacking Democracy.

    And to make matters even worse, the notorious LHS Associates — the private company with the criminal background, who has admitted to illegally tampering with memory cards during elections, and who has a Director of Sales and Marketing who embarrassed himself with obscene comments here at The BRAD BLOG some years ago, resulting in his being barred from CT by their Sec. of State — sells and services almost all of MA’s voting machines along with those in the rest of New England.

    http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7650

    • Scope

      used in the NY 23 special election? Didn’t we read that “some” of the machines were “repaired” shortly before the election, but, were not re-certified before they were used in the election, which resulted in a few thousand more votes for Hoffman after further inspection. The NY 23 election only involved a district in NY. The MA election is statewide. It would be impossible for the Brown team to have one of their people insuring certification of each individual machine in the state. Because of the importance of this election, with the Democrats desperately needing to retain their filibuster proof majority, anything and everything can and most likely will happen. It seems that the only way Republicans can win elections anymore is they must win by landslide numbers. The close elections are easily tampered with.

      • sharonmcp

        The Diebold electronic voting machines to be used in more than 90% of the state’s districts are the same demonstrably unreliable ballot scanning systems that were seen being hacked in the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Hacking Democracy. The rest of the machines used in the Bay State are made by Sequoia Voting System, Inc., the same manufacturer whose machines were “misconfigured,” to switch votes in Erie County, NY’s Nov. 3, 2009 election and which have failed, and even been hacked, in a number of cases around the country.

        Making matters worse, the company who sells, services and programs the Diebold optical-scan paper ballot systems to be used next week, LHS Associates, has a disturbing criminal background, and has admitted to tampering illegally with voting systems during past elections.

        http://www.gouverneurtimes.com/st-lawrence-news/54-worldnational-news/10625-easily-hacked-voting-systems-to-be-used-in-ma-special-election-for-the-us-senate.html

  • johnt

    the one the Dems pull the last two days before a tight election, the one the media is only to happy to pimp for them.
    Did he enter a topless bar back in 1998?
    What about that speeding ticket twenty five years ago?
    Charges surface that Brown cheated on a geography exam as a high school sophomore.
    That kind of stuff, shame is, it works. Not as bad say as a sitting U S president being pals with an American born terrorist bomber, but standards are flexible.

  • joliefleurs

    Short of him being caught in a keffiyeh with a suicide belt strapped around his waste, I?m not sure what could be so toxic in a state that has given us Mary Jo, as well as Barney Frank’s prostitution ring and home-grown weed that could sink him. Presumably the man knows who Curt Schilling is….

    Seriously, I think people’s minds are made up, and those who are voting for him would recognize it for what it is; those who aren’t voting for him won’t care anyway.

    Mind you, I hope they do try some ridiculous thing, because I think that will hurt them even more. People don’t like that sort of tactic.

    Brown needs to mention that Martha would be the 60th vote on amnesty, too.

    • joliefleurs

      My apologies!

    • The_Gadfly

      it is entirely possible that a smear will backfire because it is self-evidently a smear. For the smear to work, it has to be a credible charge coming from an opponent who at least doesn’t look desperate. The C[r]oakley campaign passed the point of being obviously desperate a couple days ago.

      • swami7774

        ..because the smear would come from a ostensibly non-campaign source–i.e., the Boston Globe.
        There are enough nitwits in this state that think the Globe is a real newspaper, and if it digs up something, it must be true.

        It’s telling that, amidst a discussion of a possible last-minute smear, the possibility that Coakley could be the target is not even remotely plausible.
        That’s the state of the MSM.

  • sharonmcp

    • The_Gadfly

      they’d know that when the guy who brought us “The Streak” is making fun of you the game is over.

    • gekster

      It was in my heart.
      God bless you Ray Steavens

  • red_mass

    Don’t celebrate, . WE still not out the woods yet. We need to win it we need to win it big. There will be a time for celebration, now we need to keep the eyes on ball we can’t afford to drop it.
    We all know the dems will anything to steal it, I live in mass I know
    Vote brown and help anyone to vote with you.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704586504574654602781512842.html

  • Brian_Roastbeef

    Bouncing around, and will likely change back and forth before the end of the day, but at the moment Brown is now ahead slightly. First time I’ve seen that throughout all of this.

    Another poll, this time by ARG showing Brown up by 3. Linked at Hotair. That’s like the third or fourth that I’ve seen with roughly that result. So I’m coming to believe that the number right now is indeed Brown by 3 or 4. Kristol at the Weekly Standard seems to believe it as well.

    I really think that if the election were held any time from Wed-Thursday through today, Brown would have won. Its just a matter of that fact continuing to be true by Tuesday. I don’t trust the Dems.

  • fortcollins

    A Brown win in the bluest of states would suggest that NO Democrat is safe in 2010. Is it too much to hope that the GOP insiders would wake up on Wednesday and begin to realize that principled conservatives can compete in any race in any state?

    Also, if Brown wins on Tuesday, is there any chance the Dems will use the reconciliation process to add “Democrats” to the Endangered Species List?