Gibbs just said he and the WH didn't expect to lose that Senate seat.

[gateley]

Please please oh please, learn from this!

[Nite Owl]

1. They really do live

in a big bubble.

[AspenRose]

2. That is pathetic

I'm sorry, that ticks me off.

No excuse! None! Complacency is not an option, guys! Entitlement is doomed to failure! You should know better than that! Aaaaugh! :nuke:

[CreekDog]

11. Without 60 seats, I guess all is lost

what the hell???

[virgogal]

3. I certainly didn't expect to lose it either and I'm a lifetime MA resident.

To say that I was stunned would be a gross understatement.

[aquart]

4. Sadly, I'm not surprised.

[Mari333]

6. nor am I.

[Ninga]

5. Well, Ollie, that explains it! Tone deaf and blind. And admitting it. n/t

[daa]

20. Clueless eom

[cali]

7. they're lying. I knew over a week ago we'd lose.

please don't tell me you didn't expect it, Gibbs.

[liberal N proud]

That was pretty stupid

It was an election and the national media coupled with the GOP and their money saw that seat as a trophy seat.

Taking Ted Kennedy's seat and killing the super majority was their motivation.

I would say the entire Democratic Party and the candidate didn't take the election seriously enough.

[Bolo Boffin]

8. Are you listening, President Obama?

"Massachusetts voters who backed Barack Obama in the presidential election one year ago and either switched support to Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown, or simply stayed home, said in a poll conducted after the election Tuesday night that if Democrats enact tougher policies on Wall Street, they'll be more likely to come back to the party in the next election.

A majority of Obama voters who switched to Brown said that "Democratic policies were doing more to help Wall Street than Main Street."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/obama-backers-more-commit_n_429673.html

Firing up the opposition only works if you can fire up your base more. Depressing your base while firing up the opposition is a guaranteed ticket to failure.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. I'll bet Judd Gregg would have done better at fixing Wall Street...

and then there was the forgiving of Joe Lieberman. Gates still running the Pentagon and Muller running the FBI. All the Bush lawyers still working for the DOJ. The almost totally compromised health care bill. The CEOs still getting the big pay days. Obama hugging W on TV. Harry Reid still as wimpy as ever. letting the wealthy keep their Bush tax cuts and trying to do still more damage to union workers. WTF, has changed?

You can't make deals with political terrorists/neocons...

[peace frog]

9. Then they weren't paying attention

It was abundantly clear to many here on DU that Coakley was a weak, clueless, entitled nominee who didn't see any need to have to stump for votes, fer gawd's sake. I mean, she was the Democratic nominee, fer heavens sake, isn't that enough??

Yeah right, Martha.

[CreekDog]

10. That's what Plan B's are for

They didn't seem to have one. :wtf:

[BeFree]

12. The vote count

2008:
1,104,284 McCain
1,891,083 Obama


1,168,107 Brown + 64,000 more than McCain
1,058,682 Coakley - 830,000 less than Obama
_________

109,325 vote difference

The pubbies got a 10% increase in votes in the off year
and the dems a decrease of almost 40%?

Wow, that's some shift. The numbers seem incredible.

[diva77]

14. we have no way of knowing what the true vote was considering most of the

votes were "tabulated" with nontransparent privately owned machines that have a long history of "mistabulation" and proven hackability.

I wouldn't be surprised if a report like "Landslide Denied" were to come out sometime in the future regarding yesterday's "election."

http://electiondefensealliance.org/landslide_denied_exit_polls_vs_vote_count_2006

:grr:

[Walk away]

18. Remind me again what Rahm Emanuel does for a living?

He didn't see this coming? These numbers didn't happen in a week.

[Pirate Smile]

13. I don't think he was talking about Monday night. He probably meant a week or two or a month ago.

[dgibby]

15. I saw that.

Did you notice the pigs flying out of his ass? CNN has been reporting for a week that the WH/Admin knew she was going to lose. What a crock!

[DoBotherMe]

17. 800,000 Voters for Change Stayed Home

John McCain received 1,104,284 vote in the presidential and Brown received 1,168,107 votes.

Obama won 1,891,083 votes in the presidential while Coakley got 1,058,682 in the Senate race.

Did those 800,000 who voted against "The Culture of Corruption" and for change not show up? Sometimes not doing something is a protest too. Dana ; )

[eleny]

19. That admission doesn't speak well for them

[Bluenorthwest]

21. Gibbs is not the sharpest tack in the box

and he is far too focused on Gibbs. I would guess he'd say 'no one could have predicted' the sun will come up in the morning.

[jillan]

22. Yep - I read that Obama was shocked. Shocked? Hello - time to wake up now.

[Gin]

23. good lord....what a stupid thing to admit.....I never paid

attention to the race until last week..and I wasn't surprised that she lost....if they have a strategy in the white house...it's a huge secret...