…turn on MSNBC and just watch the anchors and reporters. I haven’t seen these people so downhearted since the Palin speech at the 2008 convention.
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If you like the sight of the MSM in mourning…
Posted: January 19, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/newsTags: 2010 elections, election 2010, Martha Coakley, massachusetts senate, MSM, MSNBC, reality, scott brown
Ignorance is bliss
Posted: January 19, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/newsTags: honor, massachusetts senate, MSM, scott brown, still angry left
but in this case, there is no bliss, just ignorance and a lack of honor and they even know it on MSNBC.
Another field report…Fitchburg 11:20 a.m.
Posted: January 19, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local stuff, opinion/newsTags: brown/coakley, election 2010, fitchburg, Martha Coakley, massachusetts senate, mayor wong, scott brown
Turnout is steady at the polling station at the Senior center, more signs for the local Sheriff candidate and one sign holder for Brown. He’s getting a lot of positive feedback from the passers by. When asked if anyone showed up for Coakley they said one person stayed 30 seconds and left leaving three Martha Coakley signs turned face down against the building.
He Believes this is going to be the start of something big in the state for republicans.
Update: Stacy’s site is down again.
Update 2: Ran into the Mayor Lisa Wong as she prepared to go to vote, she was enthusiastic in her support for Martha Coakley who she has known personally since she was a young girl.
She thought the turnout might be lighter not just because of the weather but due to “election fatigue” due to so many special elections in so short a time.
When asked to predict the results she did not hesitate to proclaim that Martha Coakley would win the day. She lamented that the race seemed to be turning on national issues rather than local ones but praised contested elections “Contested elections keep us honest”.
Scott Brown certainly seems to providing a contested election.
Update 3: She might be more hesitant if she saw Stacy’s interview with Annie DiMartino. Annie is an old school Tip O’Neill pol. She would NEVER suggest on camera that Brown had the edge if there was the slightest chance for Coakley today.
Oh and one other thing: Annie is a saint and a friend. She never opened her diner on Saturdays because she used it as a base to organize supplies to food banks and directly to the poor and hungry. Anybody who says a bad word about Annie in my presence will have to deal with me.
Update 4: Would you believe I just got a call about a computer job. Absolutely no time to answer the questionnaire right now but I was able to discover that the person calling was a Massachusetts resident and will likely be voting for Scott Brown later in the day.
Update 5: Moran Square Dinner: The feeling there is the same as Mike Barnicle, Coakley ran a horrible Campaign. Among the customers who pass through she runs THIRD behind Brown and Kennedy.
My prediction for the race…
Posted: January 19, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/newsTags: brown/coakley, election 2010, Martha Coakley, massachusetts senate, scott brown
Ok the time for dithering and for hesitating is over, it is now election day and it’s time for me to directly say what I think the result will be rather than hinting.
I am called DaTechGuy, I do tech support, that is all about looking at a system and deciding what is going on based upon the data that we see.
I have been to events on both sides: Scott Brown’s people are excited, the Coakley people are going through the motions.
The Scott Brown people can’t WAIT to vote, the Martha Coakley people (and by some reports the candidate herself) are discouraged and dispirited.
The Brown people draw huge crowd wherever they go. Coakley rallies I’ve attended were at colleges where many of the students who attended them were not voters. At the Brown rallies a one or two Coakley supports would attend. At the Worcester event with Bill Clinton more registered voters were outside holding Brown signs than inside to see the president. In Boston proper, the city of Tip O’Neill the Brown supporters countering the president’s appearance dwarfed those who were outside for Coakley.
When debugging a system you go where the data takes you. I still have a bit of that pre-2004 Red Sox Fatalism that all Massachusetts residents born before 1985 have, it drove my early skepticism, but the data is the data and from what I’ve seen I there can only be one conclusion:
I say Scott Brown is going to win this race and I don’t think it is going to be close.
Update: Via Glenn Reynolds: Zogby is predicting a Coakley win. He is a big time pollster and I’m an overweight Sicilian in a fedora so attention must be paid. I have seen absolutely no evidence of this on the trail unless that small hint at the Coakley rally on Friday means more than it suggested.
Update 2: We use paper ballots in Fitchburg (glenn will be pleased) so if anything funny goes on it won’t be here.
Update 3: If this report by Michelle is indicative of the tactics being used by the Attorney General’s supporters then they are just fools.
There is nothing more likely to guarantee a full scale electoral revolt in this state and an even larger one nationwide than a stolen election here. This is short term political thinking live for the moment thinking.
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