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Is this good news or bad news for Scott Brown?

Posted: January 5, 2010 by datechguy in elections
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I don’t know, all I DO know is although I see a lot all over the blogs concerning the senate race here, I have yet to hear a single person mention the election to me, not in the diner, not at the Knights of Columbus meeting, not at a recent funeral and not at the open house.

If nobody is talking about it perhaps he can come in under the radar, but I would think that SOMEONE would have something to say in the state.

Then again Curt Schilling sure can’t hurt.

If this state does the right thing, and elects Scott Brown, it will, in addition to being a comeback/upset of 2004 proportions, put a screeching halt to the Democratic party’s fast tracking this country into an abyss.

What Government run/funded program in this country’s history has ever been run with an ounce of financial responsibility, prudence, or with the peoples best interest at the forefront? None, that’s which one.

Scott is EXACTLY what this state and this country needs right now.

It is my opinion that the reason we are a one party state is the population here is fatalistic, this comes from the 80+ years of the Red Sox waiting to win. I wonder if the two World Series and three superbowl wins in this decade has broken that streak?

We will find out.

Update: A 10 point race? Michael Graham is on cloud nine:

A Republican win in Massachusetts is still a longshot, but these numbers are in the range of the possible. The question is, are these numbers close enough to get Martha Coakley to actually start campaigning? She’s been the invisible gal since winning the primary.

Will this margin energize Scott Brown’s supporters, or will it awake the sleeping Democratic giant in Massachusetts? It’s up to you, the people.

If this race is about Brown vs. Coakley, it’s a waste of everyone’s time. But if you’ll let your friends and neighbors who are sick of the insanity in Washington know they can send a message by voting against the Obama/liberal establishment.

I hate to be a downer but the key number there is 50. As long as Coakley is polling at 50 Brown can’t win. Then again as long as local dems see 50 they won’t get excited either.

More significant that this , if the electorate here in Massachusetts is angry enough to make this race close, how bad must these jokers be doing everywhere else?

6 hours in…

Posted: January 1, 2010 by datechguy in doctor who, personal
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2010 seems pretty much the same so far, except for the continual Doctor Who Marathon until part 2 of the End of Time on BBC America.

And in an hour or so the cooking and the main cleaning begins.

I’m sure the year will get more exciting as it goes on.

Answer: Because it’s right on the mark

Posted: December 30, 2009 by datechguy in elections
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Q: Why is Robert Stacy using my shtick <thanks USCitizen> to talk about my state election for senate?

What a lot of people forget is that Massachusetts was once a solid GOP state till Tip O’Neil and John McCormick decided to try to change it so a statewide effort needs to be made but it takes time and effort to recruit candidates and to convince fatalistic Massachusetts residents that it can be done.

We live here, we have seen what these changes have done to our state and yet as a population we have elected Liberals in vast numbers. Some are nice guys, I met congressman Olver as I held a McCain sign opposite him, he was very friendly and personable, but that doesn’t make them any more right.

With the Red Sox World Series victories perhaps the fatalism can be shaken but it requires several things.

It requires the GOP to be willing to recruit candidates across the state.

It requires those candidates to be willing to put themselves out there.

It requires the voters to be willing to believe that change can happen.

and most of all it requires that voters WANT the change.

The entrenched interests sustain themselves with the current system, they will fight back but other than a stolen election it is the voters willingness to return these liberal year after year that does it.

Until we are willing to stop doing this to ourselves it will continue to happen, but eventually enough people will leave that our electoral count will be so insignificant as to be irrelevant.

Answer: Because my 85 year old New Dealer mother is actually going to city hall to re-register as a republican because of them.

Posted: December 23, 2009 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, personal
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Q: How do we know the following take from Bill Kristol is correct:

First: the reaction to the deal-making. One friend e-mails, “uncharacteristically, I’m getting calls from relatives who want to talk about all the unseemly deals being cut to get the health bill through…that seems to have hit a nerve, as much as the price-tag.” That’s my sense too.

The belief that the fix is in is so contrary to the American concept of fair play that it’s going to make a huge difference. Sarah Palin closed her facebook post today with this:

The administration’s promises of transparency and bipartisanship have been broken one by one. This entire process has been defined by midnight votes on weekends, closed-door meetings with industry lobbyists, and payoffs to politicians willing to sell their principles for sweetheart deals. Is it any wonder that Americans are so disillusioned with their leaders in Washington?

This is about politics, not health care. Americans don’t want this bill. Americans don’t like this bill. Washington has stopped listening to us. But we’re paying attention, and 2010 is coming.

When an 85 year old lifelong democrats expresses an intention to go to City Hall to change their registration over this in the bluest of blue states that means trouble.

This is going to implode this congress.

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