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Boston Globe is a rag and their polls have not been that good. I don’t believe their poll any more than I believe a poll from Ras.
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The polling is very volatile in this race. It is an off-year election with a drag on Dems, just like 2010 when Brown surprised Coakley and came out of nowhere to win a low turnout election. Difference this time is that the Dems knew this would be close going in and that Baker would have a cash advantage. If Coakley turns out her voters, she wins. If not he does.
Hilarious - is she going to blow it again??
Coakley is just an awful candidate. I have no idea what that is, but in a statewide race in Mass, she should wipe the floor with any generic republican out there, and this guy is fairly generic. Can anyone from out there explain to me what the heck is up with Martha Coakley?
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Here’s hoping she can stay tight-lipped about her favorite baseball team, the Boston Knicks.
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It’s hard to believe that anybody in Mass. would vote Republican again for governor after Romney, the consummate bullshit artist. Obama has a 52% approval rating in Mass (!).
But Coakley is utterly inept as a candidate, and Baker is, well, smarter than Scott Brown. I never thought Coakley had a chance at this. If she wins, she can thank Mitt Romney for souring Bay Staters even more on the idea of a Republican governor. After Deval Patrick’s excellent 8 years, the next 4 aren’'t going to be so hot in Mass. no matter who wins.
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Actually, Brown is running a terrible campaign. His ads are struggling to find something other than “I saved Harvard Pilgrim”… especially since Coakley’s ads point out that he hugely increased his own salary in the process while patient premiums skyrocketed.
His other theme is: the economy was great under Bill Weld, and I’m just like him… see, there I am standing next to him!.. so the Weld economy is really my accomplishment! That and Welfare cheats are stealing all your money!
Clearly this could go either way, but Baker isn’t giving Mass Dems much reason to like him, while Coakley has hugely improved since her 2010 flailing.
When is the Dem machinery going to realize she’s a fucking disaster?
Pretty simple: she has the right connections and a vagina and the Dem machinery in MA decided that “first elected female governor” made her a shoe-in. She apparently does too, because her answers during debates were and continue to be mealy-mouthed and fence-riding and what not. I’m as liberal as it gets and I cannot stand her.
Isn’t Ms. Coakley overdue for a vacation?
Yes, but I don’t think she can win the Governor’s race in Texas.
I knew this was going to happen.
Coakley spent months giving people zero reason to vote for her, while Baker was effectively turning himself into a non-scary credible alternative.
Now, the race gets tight in the last month, and her ads are all about “You have to save us from scary Charlie Baker!” Except no one is afraid of Charlie Baker, any more than they were afraid of Mitt Romney or Paul Celucci. What’s he going to do, ram through a radical right-wing agenda, with nothing to stop him by the state senate, and the House, and the judiciary, and the state bureaucracy, and the public? Real scary.
Coakley is certainly nothing special, but with Republicans having won the governor’s races in 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002, I don’t think it’s wise to put the blame on Martha Coakley individually.
People in Massachusetts know that a Republican governor can’t actually govern like a Republican - there is a veto-proof majority in both houses of the legislature every session, and we all know there is going to be before the first vote is counted. If the Democrat doesn’t seem willing or able to effectively check and balance the Democratic machine based in the legislative leadership, then the public is willing to vote for a non-scary Republican to serve as the speed bump.
We found a winning formula in Deval Patrick - someone from outside of the Beacon Hill machine (he’s from Chicago and Washington, D.C.) with a background working for the Democratic President (Patrick ran the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under Clinton). It’s too bad we got away from that formula, and chose as our nominee the reanimated corpse of Shannon O’Brien with Scott Harshbarger’s head sewn onto it.
Martha Coakley has never understood that Massachusetts being a “blue state” doesn’t mean it’s a “I can phone it in and be thoroughly bland and un-compelling and still win” state. I have no idea why she was nominated for either race; from what I understand, her record as AG has been spotty.
Her Senate campaign was a special election which meant that people thought that only those with special needs should vote. That’s how we got Scott Clown. Besides that there was a fever swamp in the national electorate the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Know-Nothings. I hope and pray she wins … if not we’ll see Faker running for President in 2020. I like Martha but she is a public servant in the old fashioned sense and not the flashiest person. She might be considered a legal nerd I suppose … she has made some awkward moves.
The Republican Party has turned into a giant tub of toxic manure. If you think Baker is that lone delicious shiny apple sitting right in the center of it go ahead … be my guest and have a bite. Using your logic as a Mass native I could vote for Nazis or Communists … they can’t really cause trouble so what the hell … we’ll have some laughs.
They have always known and really didn’t want her. Only the base chose her in the primary.