I talked to Jeff Perry at his Quincy HQ today:
ma-10 was the only race that the national media before the last month gave republicans a chance to win. It will be the start of the Big Red Wave.
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Voices of the Candidates: Jeff Perry (R) ma-10
Posted: October 13, 2010 by datechguy in elections, politics, short films/interviews, special eventsTags: 2010 elections, big red wave, election 2010, jeff perry, ma-10, short interviews, voices of the candidates
You’ve found that Scott Brown Feeling
Posted: October 13, 2010 by datechguy in elections, politics, special eventsTags: 2010 elections, big red wave, election 2010, jeff perry, ma-10, ma-4, sean bielat
Yesterday in a flashback to January Robert Stacy McCain was in the passenger seat as my grey Buick LaSable cruised down Rte 128 (I95 for you non Bay Staters) to check what is going on in the southeastern part of the state.
What we found were people who were volunteering for phone banks and a mood that reflected that old Scott Brown feeling.
Sean Bielat talks to Stacy and I at the Newton HQ
The mood of the people we talked to wasn’t just enthusiasm for Bielat it was downright ugly for Barney as Stacy reported in his Spectator column.
“The way he talked to his constituents, it just turned my stomach,” Debbie said, talking about an August 2009 town-hall event in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, attended by some 500 citizens who overwhelmingly opposed the health-care bill that was then working its way through Congress. “I said to my husband, ‘I don’t care who’s running against him, I’ll work for them — and I’ll work my heart out.'”
Stacy gets a shot in Norton
Debbie didn’t want her photo taken but she was there to make calls and before we could leave a 2nd person joined her to man the phones.
From there we headed East toward Plymouth
Plymouth had ooph for Perry and Quincy (above) had even more
That didn’t slow them down and at all however and at the Sean Bielat HP in Newton the mood continued upbeat. The phones were constantly in motion and the volunteers excited at the prospect to defeating Barney Frank continued to double their efforts to keep Frank on the defensive.
This has paid huge dividends. Barney has already felt the need to bring in Bill Clinton, with President Obama also heading to the state the race is likely much worse than the official polls are showing.
Bielat phone banks in Newton
This kind of feeling is what I’ve been seeing all over the state for months and the NRCC has finally taken notice starting to kick into the ma-4 race (Still hoping to see some national dough in ma-1 ma-2 and ma-3).
One of the wonderful side effects of the fights in Massachusetts is the tying down of Monies that Frank and other Massachusetts dems would normally be distributing to democrats all over the country, but with fights all over the state the congressional delegation is keeping the purse-strings close.
One thing is for sure the last time Stacy was here he saw Massachusetts shock the country. I suspect he will be reporting that the aftershocks of the Big Red wave of November 2nd will be even stronger.
And by then my heart will have reached its normal rate after Stacy Driving my car.
Word of advice to bloggers: never give Stacy your keys!
Update: Even as we did all this Stacy had the time to report on some Democratic Anti-Semitic action in Maine
Scott Brown Feeling? Guys you don’t know the half of it
Posted: October 11, 2010 by datechguy in elections, internet/free speech, politics, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, election 2010, ma-1, ma-10, ma-2, ma-3, ma-4, ma-5, ma-6, ma-7, ma-9, massachusetts elections, robert stacy mccain, scott brown feeling
Glenn links to Stacy’s latest about that Scott Brown Feeling
That’s the big story here. Barney Frank’s MA-4 seat isn’t on Charlie Cook’s radar, either, but Sean Bielat clearly has Barney on the defensive here. The only Massachusetts seats ranked by Cook are the open MA-10 seat (“leans Democrat,” with a no-name Democrat against Republican Jeff Perry) and MA-5 (“likely Democrat” with Republican Jon Golnik challenging Niki Tsongas).
If Bielat can beat Barney — and Barney seems to be sweating it now — then those Perry and Golnik will also be riding that Big Red Wave, here in Massachusetts where “Downtown Scotty Brown” already proved the Democrats can be beat. Just last night, thanks to my friend Pete Da Tech Guy, I interviewed three candidates — Bill Gunn in MA-1, Tom Wesley in MA-2, Marty Lamb in MA-3 — all of whom are running hard in districts that Scott Brown won in January.
If that Big Red Wave hits on Nov. 2, there are no “safe” Democrats.
I had a talk with hard-working canvasser this month doors were in the process of slamming until the word “Republican” was spoken. At that point doors opened and lit taken. This has been the regular experience reported to me. Combine this with the Jim McKenna results and this state is a wagon of Nitro about to blow up on Democrats.
Listen the only absolutely safe seat in Ma for democrats is ma-8 and that’s only safe because there is no opposition. I’m cautiously predicting 3 seats but if I woke up to 7 I would not be shocked. (Nine now THAT would shock me)!
Update: Stacy is on the Bielat/Beat Barney beat and has this story in the Spectator that says in part:
“They’ve got no operation over there,” Phillips said of the Frank campaign. As Bielat told reporters at a Sept. 26 rally, “They have one campaign office. It’s always empty. We have three. They’re always full.”
Bielat’s Newton office wasn’t full Sunday morning, but it was open and in full swing, with at least three volunteers calling voters in a telephone canvassing operation that has already reached some 30,000 likely voters and, at a pace of more than 2,000 new contacts daily, could approach the 50,000 mark within a week.
This is going to be a huge night in Massachusetts. It will be the place to be on election day.
It figures, Stacy McCain is in Massachusetts…
Posted: October 10, 2010 by datechguy in blogs, congress, elections, politicsTags: 2010 elections, charlie baker, election 2010, ma-1, ma-10, ma-2, ma-3, ma-4, robert stacy mccain
…and I have a wedding today.
I managed to talk to him last night after he landed and managed to get a few minutes on the phone with Marty Lamb, Tom Wesley and Bill Gunn before they went on the air last night. You will likely read about that in the next day or two at his blog.
Today he is noticing the negative ads Deval Patrick outside groups have been hitting Baker with relentlessly:
Charles Baker is the Republican candidate challenging Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Lately, Baker has been targeted by attack ads from a group called “Bay State Future,” headed by Barbara Weniger. But this group is actually a front for Democrats and labor unions
Democrats in this state are VERY scared. You have seen very little polling outside of ma-10, the governor’s race and ma-4 (Barney Frank vs Sean Beilat). If the true extent of what is going on here in Massachusetts gets out the democratic morale and fundraiser nationally could collapse.
Some people have not believed what I’ve been saying about Massachusetts, perhaps once Stacy has a few days in the state he can corroborate what I’ve been reporting.
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