Yeah! Losing Mass tomorrow will TOTALLY SHOW THEM! (sarcasm)

[lxlxlxl]

EVERYTHING WILL BE PERFECT AFTER TOMORROW. Yippie! We totally showed them. High FIVE!

[Skittles]

1. over-the-top ridiculous

[pnwmom]

2. Yup. When the conservative wins, that will tell everyone to move to the LEFT.

Why don't more people understand this?

:sarcasm:

[JDPriestly]

4. I have been very critical of Obama, but if I were in Massachusetts,

I would probably vote for Coakley, reluctantly and maybe enthusiastically depending on local issues.

I reliably voted for Dianne Feinstein last election, although I disagree with her a good portion of the time.

I will probably volunteer for Barbara Boxer although it depends on what is going on at the national level.

And I think that Coakley will win.

But, how do you think the Obama administration would react if Coakley lost?

I will tell you what I think. The Democrats will do focus groups and polls after the election to see where things went wrong. They will canvas Democrats and find out, and they will make changes. As a party, we are lucky that in this election year without a presidential contest, we will be shown what direction the country is willing to vote.

One of the big problems with the Obama administration is that they do not respond adequately to people's concerns. This is the big weakness of Democrats. We are such policy wonks that we think that, as long as we are doing a reasonably good job, everyone will see what we are doing and vote for us.

That's not the way it works. The Republicans understand that people vote according to their perceptions about how things are going, not how they really are going.

Obama has been very involved in trying to change health care policy. That's great. But the few town halls he has held on this and other issues have not really given people a sense that his policies are responding to their needs. The tax on certain really good employer plans are an example. It may make sense to policy wonks but it is a loser in the perception battle. The person who thought it up has no political sense at all.

If taxes have to be raised, they should be raised on the very wealthy. That tax would be politically very popular among not only Obama's base but the middle class too -- once enacted in spite of the media campaign against it before its enactment. I can't believe that the Obama administration is as politically awkward as it has been. Obama ran a good campaign.

Anybody know what happened? Did Obama drop some of this campaign staffers? Did he add anyone? Like Geithner, Rahm Emmanuel and Emmanuel's brother and entourage? Is that the difference? I'm seriously wondering why Obama is not getting across.

[pnwmom]

6. Whether or not Coakley wins, I think Obama should make a major move now

on the jobs front. To hell with the deficit -- I'm trusting Krugman on that one. Now is not the time to be worrying about the deficit, it's time to stimulate the economy to create jobs. Let the Rethugs scream all they want about that. It's what most people want.

[JDPriestly]

9. Stimulate good paying jobs and the tax revenue will follow.

Think what a high proportion of our tax revenue is income tax. That's why you have to bring down the unemployment figures when they get as high as they are now.

[cliffordu]

12. Call me cynical but I think the jobs stimulus will be

what happens right before the 2010 election.

[Pirate Smile]

3. I'm sorry for not getting sufficiently hysterical and saying the world ends, the sky falls and we're

doomed if we lose tomorrow because that would be so much more constructive and helpful.

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[leftstreet]

7. Stop browbeating DUers over Coakley!

Jesus what is it with you people!!

How many members here actually LIVE in MA fer cryin out loud?

[pnwmom]

8. You must have a very thin skull if you think the OP's browbeating. n/t

[Bluebear]

13. 'Jesus what is it with you people!!'

:) I like it.

[Bucky]

10. Protesting Obama's inability to get more done by making it harder to get anything done.

I'm frustrated, too. But let's focus our ire on the nihilistic Republican opposition. That's where the problem is.

[Bluebear]

11. Laughably ridiculous.