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I declare DOOM for Martha Coakley (D, MA-SEN).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 12th, 2010 at 08:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I’ve been fighting the urge: it’s Massachusetts.  But let’s review the evidence.

  • The latest Rasmussen poll: 49/47 Coakley/Brown.  That’s +2 Coakley for likely voters.  Definite ones?  +1 Brown.  The total shift is +7 Brown in a week.

  • And lastly: Coakley is scared. She admitted to being frightened in a conference call today at the way that Scott Brown has come out of nowhere to disrupt her coronation.  She needs money.  The campaign that bragged about the 5.2 million dollars that they raised last year needs money.  That’s why the DSCC is throwing almost 600K into the race.  So that Martha Coakley can maintain parity against the interloper.

(pause)

DOOM.

Moe Lane

PS: Scott Brown for US Senate.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Beasley Beesmeal

    call your local media hack…..

    tell your friends

  • Composer_Man

    Oh, you know the rest.

  • sloeride

    Brown will win by 10.

  • Power_Pro

    I couldn’t donate a lot but I did get my folks to donate (they NEVER donate to political races) AND I got ahold of a friend up in Mass…a Republican…and urged him to vote for Brown.

    He didn’t even know about the race! And his first response was that he’d vote for the one who’d more than likely lose.

    It was tough talking to George but understandable. He’s used to picking the loser and his spirit is stifled. He had an almost “why bother” attitude.

    I know how he feels. I grew up in the DC area and as you can guess, most of the congressional races went hard left. It’s not referred to as the people’s republic of Northern VA for nothing.

    But we can’t give in to that and I hope I can encourage George to get his family and any other potential Brown voters to the polls on Tuesday!

  • Third Street

    $1.3 million for Scott Brown raised in a single day. Ohhh, we are gonna do this.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    ..

  • crazydaz

    …in a much more positive fashion now! Keep ‘em running and DO NOT LET UP!! IT’S UP TO YOU, MASS.!! We’ve done all we could have without becoming “interfering” or “bothersome” from a national standpoint, like you guys wanted. RETURN THE FAVOR and GET BROWN IN!!!

  • SalG

    Checked her reports (FEC #C00466573), and it does not appear that she is hurting. Maybe I’m reading the reports wrong. Perhaps $$$’s for large media buys.

  • Third Street
  • scarlos

    “If we don’t win this, 2010 will be hell for Democrats.”

    – Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), quoted by The Hotline, on the U.S. Senate special election in Massachusetts.

    http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/01/12/extra_bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

  • Power_Pro

    I originally figured Brown by 2 but then after they announced that they’d ignore the vote results and stall putting him in if he won in order to shove health care down our throats, I upped it.

    From what I was reading, folks in Massachusettes ;) didn’t really take a shine to that idea.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I’d be thrilled.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    They wouldn’t blow their money for no reason, you know.

  • Swamp_Yankee
  • Power_Pro

    That being said, I think the people are motivated enough to get them past all of that.

    I think Brown is good enough and Coakley is just that bad…that we have a perfect storm brewing.

  • erod

    DOOM DOOM
    http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/308/89111-180945-doctor-doom_super.jpg

    http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/doom.jpg

  • scarlos

    Cook rates MA as D +12. That means Brown needs to do about 13-15 points better than the average Republican presidential candidate to win Statewide.

    Coincidentally, the way Massachusetts is gerrymandered, winning by that margin would win him 9 out of the 10 Congressional seats in MA, only losing the Boston/Cambridge based 8th.

    When Republicans are winning supposedly “Safe” districts Democrats drew themselves (This is a FEDERAL ELECTION remember) there are going to be some more worried Democrat incumbents deciding to spend more time with their families.

  • Aaron Gardner

    See here.

  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    I maintain hope that Brown pulls this out…but this is one of those states that until the final vote is in, I won’t believe it. It is Charlie Brown and the football…it is teasingly close, but you never quite can reach it. Lets hope this time is the exception.

    http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=9444

  • Power_Pro

    I’ll say 5 before the dead are counted…then down to 2.

    But still enough of a win to keep them from finding enough ballots in car trunks.

  • Power_Pro

    I’m feeling pretty optimistic right now.

    They said we couldn’t win New Jersey either…but Governor Elect Christie disagrees.

  • Aaron Gardner

    Oops, I got that wrong. They didn’t endorse, because of his Pro Choice views, but they did offer their qualified support.

  • Power_Pro

    And clearly a better option than Coakley so… still psyched!

  • fightnright

    with hurried instructions to get out and pull the lever for the Dems, I wonder how many of their useful idiots will screw up and vote for Joe Kennedy……

  • Third Street

  • basalt_conservative

    He needs to win by a big enough margin so that the libs can’t cheat. (ala Franken-stein)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • Mary Beth

    …to save themselves from having to fall on their swords in the name of Obama’s agenda.

  • http://UnitedConservativesofVirginia Cargosquid

    Googlelz iz ur frend.

    Candidates for statewide office may obtain recounts by filing a petition with the Secretary of the Commonwealth by 5:00 p.m. on the tenth day following the election. The petition may specify whether the candidate wants a hand recount. In statewide elections, a recount may be done only if the margin of victory is less than 0.5% percent.[1] There are no statutory requirements for payments by petitioners of the cost of recounts.

  • The_Rebel

    Secretary of State:

    http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elerct/rctidx.htm

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You must be new around here. :-)

  • earlgrey

    I had planned on joining the phone calling efforts thus weekend. I registered and everything, but we just learned that my FIL has terminal cancer and we’ll be taking the kids to see him. It will be a long drive. Not sure how much time I’ll have to help this weekend.

    We can not get complacent. We weren’t this excited over Hoffman and polls had him higher.

    I’ll do all I can for this if I get a chance to do some calling. I hope everyone else that cares about this race does the same. You can go to Scott Brown’s website to register to call for the campaign

  • mbecker908

    Maybe Bing?

    AskSam?

    Dogpile?

  • billyd

    Kennedy will pull some dems from Coakley based on his name. He will pull more Dems from Coakley simply because he’s against funding the wars in Afganistan and Iraq. That gives those Dems that don’t want healthcare but don’t want to vote for a Republican something to fall back on.

    After yesterdays support for Brown (Moneybomb) i think america has a real good shot at getting our voice back.

  • 10ksnooker

    the tea party rocks their world.

  • erod

    Best game ever!

  • vamoose

    As an anti-Washington, anti-entrenched-politician election cycle Coakley is holding a fundraiser IN WASHINGTON WITH DEM OLD LIONS and K STREETERS a week before the election. If she actually win, Boxer, Landrieu, Casey will have a 4th player for ‘Go Fish’.

    And another thought…
    Didja ever notice how the Dems can stuff $300 million in Mary’s bra when its taxpayer money, but when real people have to come up with real money to save one senate seat they can’t scrape up a cool million?

  • SalG

    last night on Greta that the average donation for his money bomb was $75. That wasn’t lobbyist money; that was real peoples money.

  • proudgop

    “If we don’t win this, 2010 will be hell for Democrats.”

    – Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), quoted by The Hotline, on the U.S. Senate special election in Massachusetts.

    Mr Markey finally said something right

  • dnlchisholm

    http://mittromneycentral.com/2010/01/12/mrc-presents-haiku-contest-for-scott-brown/

  • proudgop

    has more on that funraiser

    Martha Coakley (D) told reporters this evening that she has not asked Pres. Obama to campaign for her.

    “I haven’t,” Coakley said when asked whether she had requested Obama’s support. Coakley remained mum in response to a follow-up question on whether she would like Obama to come to the state on her behalf.

    Coakley made the remarks as she was entering a DC restaurant for a fundraiser one week before Election Day.

    Why would she not want Obama to campaign for her? Something in her internals most be showing something

  • http://UnitedConservativesofVirginia Cargosquid

    how fast I would get a reply to “Googlez”. Besides Bing isn’t as
    fun in “lolcat”.

  • Spartan4Life

    Believe it, people, Coakley is toast.

    Even in the Lib Globe, all the comments were for Brown. Nobody is supporting her so she must be toast.

  • SalG

    chance it after VA & NJ.

  • joayn

    two ads. That’s it. She probably spent the majority of her money in the primary. Hah!

    She’s gonna run out of dough. Where’s George Soros?

  • http://www.the41stvote.org rcov092

    n/t

  • Mary Beth

    So she’s not exactly cash poor, but she does need the big lobbyist/DNC/Union guns to come in and bail her out.

    With one week left…it’ll be fascinating to see what she and Scott do. How much will go for buying dead votes for her? Will Scott be able to mount a solid GOTV effort?

    Then there’s the weather…

    I think there are a lot of things in play, money only being one of them.

  • jackhammer

    if it snows, and snows hard, Acorn voters won’t turn out…if it does snow, and you have a good car, make sure you pick up your uncles and aunts and their friends who might have more trouble gettng out in that weather and take em to the polls.

  • merryj1

    … unpaid debts. She may owe $$$ that’s already “spent,” but not yet paid.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    I cannot believe that the holier than thou Massachusetts busybodies will elect a republican as Senator, especially a fairly conservative one.

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

    If Scott Brown wins Teddy’s seat in Massachusetts, Kennedy will rise from the grave as a limo driver and drive Scott Brown off the bridge in Chappaquiddick.

    www.jeannie-ology.com

  • abingtonjim

    This is Massachusetts, so be prepared for anything. My guess is that Martha drops out of the race on the 17th and Galvin (SecState) and Deval join heads and declare there will be no election because the democrats aren’t represented.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    and Harry Reid?

  • sarge324

    coakelys cant spell massachusette and she wants to be their senator.i understand the left are bring out the big boys to help coakely in a bid to become the massachusette senator.scott brown raises 1.3 million dollars from the small people who care about our country.coakely has a black tie fund raiser worth millions.i wonder how many country loving american people sent her money.people of massachusette words from scott brown.in all due respect sir it isnt kennedys or the democratic seat its the people of massachusettes seat.god that was an uplifting message.vote couhtry not party.

  • dudette

    is bought and paid for by Soros, so expect problems, a la Franken Coleman, another election screwed by a Soros Sec of State

  • http://thecorruptworld.blogspot.com/ wayneinnh

    From today’s Boston Globe.

    The SEIU purpleshirts are digging into their coffers for a $685,000 negative ad blitz against Scott Brown.

    They’re scared.

  • bsquared

    http://LYCOS.com
    –so I default to that now; (almost) anything but in-your-business google
    DOOM in Mashachushits for Cokely
    GO Brown!
    (someone needs to get him a cool team-jersey…what number would it have? “60?”, “minus 1″ perhaps?

  • http://www.BTWsociety.org racvt

    Remember when Edward More” Kennedy” ran against Chub Peabody?
    All the Peabody polls had him beating Ted by a mile, and all the more as he kept piling it on during their three debates.
    And Ted Kennedy just took it (rope-a-dope)… even managed to look hurt, almost to the point of tears in the last debate.
    The problem was, Peabody’s polls were done by PHONE. Teddy’s went door-to-door and surveyed folks without phones. They (many Irish Catholic) said, “It’s just not fair to beat up on such a good man like ‘our’ Teddy.”
    So be careful, not smug. Don’t lay down now.

  • olddog

    they may lose, will cause them to pull every dirty trick in the book, that’s what democommies do in other people’s republic’s
    ( Venezuela, for one, comes to mind, ?).
    Mass. voters, keep your guard up. Get a lot of people poll watching, video’s would be good too , a picture is worth a thousand words, especially in court. if a recount be necessary!
    Support our Troops, vote for Brown! Donate if you can.
    One Old Dog

  • aeaeren

    Coakely is a total moron, I mean she was WAY up and all she had to do was shake a few hands and it was over. Brown was shaking the Union’s members hands who were holding Coakely signs while she just blew by them.

    The good thing about this is she shows people EXACTLY what the Demorats think of the people!

  • wildbillfromalaska

    When brown was asked the hardball question that if health care reform does not pass now and it would likely be 15 years before it was brought up again,how could he in good conscience sit in Ted Kennedy’s seat and vote against this bill?His response that it WAS NOT Kennedy’s seat,it was not a democratic or republican seat,but it was the peoples seat.That response was not expected by the inquisitor,whom i must assume immediately regretted his question that gave Brown the opportunity to point out the major democratic failing.Democrats ASSUME that that since a democrat occupied this seat for so long that it naturally belonged to them.This statement highlights the democrats arrogance that seems to be a hallmark of the Obama administration and democrats in general.You can bet that voters in Massachusetts took notice and are seriously contemplating the not too subtle implications that the democrats do not believe in or care about the wishes of the people.This reply also resonated with people in other states who are fed up with the lies and corruption in DC and are donating to Brown’s campaign as this special election has national implications for the future of the political landscape for years to come.God bless America.
    WildBill
    Alaska

    “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • dellbabe68

    I gave fifty bucks last night to thank him for the comment about it being the People’s seat, and another fifty this morning for having so much momentum. We can pull this out.

    dellbabe68 in the Bronx

  • dellbabe68

    … lambasting him for collecting money from all over the country. She must’ve been visiting a sick relative.

  • wildbillfromalaska

    Has a middle name that rhymes with insane and whose last name rhymes with trauma.That “relative”certainly is going to be traumatized by this rejection of the socialist agenda being foisted on the American people by the current administration and congress.

    WildBill
    Alaska

  • olddog

    in with the new
    elect a congressman
    who will represent YOU
    Go! Brown, and take that bill down

    One Old Dog