Monday, January 18, 2010
Tomorrow's (TUESDAY the 19th) the day! Do you know where your polling place is?! Have a plan!
Here's a nice video of The People's Rally from the Brown campaign:
MassBackwards has some visual examples of the "enthusiasm gap" between the campaigns: This Pretty Much Sums It Up
Remember that Mass Teachers Association video that went around in support of Coakley? Well the MTA set up their own phone bank for Coakley, and here's what it looked like this morning:
Wow. In contrast, people have been waiting just to get a seat at the Scott Brown phone banks.
James Taranto at Best of the Web has a special Massachusetts election edition up today and he kindly links here! Always a must-read, there's a lot to look at today.
RS McCain reports from the trail in MA: The Scott Heard 'Round the World
Polls? Things are looking good: Poll: Scott Brown surges to double-digit lead over Martha Coakley:
...Brown has surged to a double-digit lead over Coakley in three Massachusetts communities identified as bellwethers, according to the latest SuffolkUniversitybellwether polling of the race for U.S. Senate.
Gardner, Fitchburg and Peabody all show solid margins for Brown, the state senator running against Coakley. The cities were identified as bellwether communities because in the most recent "like election" - the November 2006 Senate race between the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Republican challenger Kenneth Chase - the results in all three communities were within 1 percentage point of the actual statewide results for each candidate. Additionally, party registration in those cities is similar to the statewide voter makeup...
And Pollster.com: Brown has significant and growing lead
At Politico: New poll: Martha Coakley 'in freefall'
A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted exclusively for POLITICO shows Republican Scott Brown surging to a nine-point advantage over Martha Coakley a day before Massachusetts voters trek to the ballot box to choose a new senator...
Just got a robo-call from Ayla Brown asking me to vote for her dad...and to make out. Yes!
Well we're about to finish up. Anything else you'd like to say or promote before we finish?
Well, I would add that I'm so focused on this Scott Brown special election right now because what it has proven that conservatives as a movement can come together and make a difference, even in a place as liberal and as Democratic as Massachusetts. Conservatives coming together are making a difference and we're going to win in Massachusetts because of conservatives all across the country. I hope we continue to do this. I hope we continue to be smart, be active and help stop the Obama administration and the Left's agenda on the Hill.
Martha Coakley took the opportunity of the holiday to campaign for herself: Brown calls Coakley's speech at MLK breakfast "inappropriate"
Washington is getting ready for the what-ifs: WH plans to cram Senate ObamaCare bill down House throat if Brown wins, and Jake Tapper writes: Martha Coakley: A Democratic Canary in a Coalmine?
Brown himself is getting ready: Brown expects to head to DC quickly if he wins
Insurgent Massachussetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown told CNN he expects to be installed quickly as Massachusetts' next senator should he win the state's special election Tuesday.
Asked about the state of the race, Brown said he's still campaigning as if he's running "down 30 points."
But sounding confident, the GOP state senator says he's made plans to travel to Washington Friday if he's victorious.
Brown warned any plan to quickly pass health care reform before the results are certified in Massachusetts would send the wrong message to Americans...
Is Scott Brown a Mitt Romney product? At The Daily Best: Mitt Romney's Man. Almost certainly overstated.
This video, Massachusetts Miracle, has been floating around for a few days now:
Graham has video of Coakley giving an absolutely incoherent explanation of health care, and news of "America's dumbest Congressman", Patrick "Patches" Kennedy, referring to Coakley repeatedly as Marcia.
RS McCain has video of Brown supporters from outside Northeastern University: Boston Goes Brown: 'I'm Thrilled to See So Many Young People'.
Legal Insurrection reports that Coakley is continuing to get well deserved flack for her attacks: Dean of Boston College Law Calls Out Coakley On Rape Mailer
Sissy has the last minute message! Scott Brown: DON'T VOTE ALONE. If it's not close, they can't cheat!
Great report from Littleton with pics from Miss Kelly: Scott Brown Rally in Littleton MA - "Mighty Good Man"
I am a student at MIT and today I went running with a couple of my buddies from the track team through downtown Boston. We wore homemade t-shirts in support of Scott Brown. Having never done anything like this before, we were a little hesitant at first. However, a police officer stopped us within the first few blocks and told us that we needed to think of something to yell to bring attention to our shirts. He was very helpful. We covered a little over 6 miles from the Prudential Center, past Boston Commons, around the Garden center, and back along the Freedom Trail, yelling,"Vote for Scott!" The response was overwhelmingly in favor of Scott Brown. People were cheering us on and we got honks from police cars, garbage trucks, and even an ambulance. It was awesome. In the end, an older gentleman stopped us and gave us a box of cookies with Brown's face on them. I will be shocked if Brown doesn't win.
Picture of the cookies at the link.
Jeff Jacoby posts audio of himself discussing the race with Bill Bennett.
From Mickey S. in lefty bastion Brookline:
We got one push-polling call Friday asking us if we'd vote for Scott Brown if we knew he'd vote in lockstep with Washington Republicans. I asked the pollster who was paying for the poll and she said it was the Massachusetts Democratic party. We got another polling call this evening, from some polling organization I'd never heard of. It was a robocall so I just hung up. The kids have even started hanging up on the calls. I'm not sure how much stock to put in polls at this point.
As I drove to two social events today from Brookline through Newton, Needham and Wellesley I saw 5 signs: 4 Brown and 1 Coakley.
One guy I know was quoted in the Boston Herald as saying he'd support Coakley because "it's important to keep the Democratic majority in the Senate." There was lots of enthusiasm for going to the Obama rally on Sunday, but the line filled up early with students who wanted to see President Obama. There is not much enthusiasm for Coakley herself.
In a normal year such dud candidates would win anyway, as is obvious from John Kerry being our other senator. This year people are fed up. It is the wild spending, it is our governor, and it is young people in a state with RomneyCare not wanting to pay sick old people rates for health insurance under ObamaCare.
Sol, nice round-up, thanks for this series.
Did you see this hilarious video? I found it in a comment over at Gateway Pundit. Really well done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Dkh8xQNwU
Ha! I love Downfall spoofs!
I probably will not be the first to make this prediction, Scott Brown will run against Obama, and will win.
Get out there and vote early and often!
Having waited in line a couple of times yesterday at Scott Brown's Needham HQ to make calls where many more phones were packed much closer together with less comfy seats, than at the relatively plush MTA digs, it's very clear which side has the energy and enthusiasm. This was further confirmed by spending a couple of hours holding up signs for Scott Brown outside Martha's Coakley rally in Framingham yesterday -- Nappy was tempted to go in and warm up on all the hot air. Let's hope that Scott Brown's Big Mo' and the lack of enthusiam for Martha Coakley pay off in the only poll that matters, the one today at the ballot box.
Watch out that Martha doesn't try to drive busloads of SEIU workers to every polling place to vote early and vote often -- Ed Schultz would approve. It's a Dem machine tradition that our beloved fearless leader would smile on. Watch out that he doesn't put his thumb on the scale for this year's census.
Ha! Just for the record, as I understand it, that video is at 10:20 for a 10:00 opening.