Help Prevent the Wingnuts from Taking Teddy's Seat.....

[Clio the Leo]

..... donate to Martha Coakley if you are so inclined....

https://coakley.zissousecure.com/contribute

WAKE UP!!!! Come out of your 11/4/08 hangovers! We've got work to do!!!

Toss up in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Senate race is now a toss up.

Buoyed by a huge advantage with independents and relative disinterest from Democratic voters in the state, Republican Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 48-47.

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Here's the reality: the Republicans and GOP leaning independents are going to come out and vote for Scott Brown. There's no doubt about that. But there's also a much larger pool of potential Democratic voters in the state. If Coakley can get them out, she wins. But this race is well past the stage where Democrats can take it for granted that will happen. It will be fascinating to see what happens the final ten days and we'll do a second poll on the race next weekend.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/01/toss-up-in-massachusetts.html

You know the LAST Republican to hold this seat? It was Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. who lost it to THIS guy.....



.... and when that guy left for the White House, THIS guy took over....



... we are not going to just LET the teabagger-hijacked GOP take this seat! If you live in MA vote! Tell all of your friends to vote! ... and if you DONT live in MA, do whatever you can to help them out!

Again, if you want to contribute, go here! https://coakley.zissousecure.com/contribute

[Mass]

1. This poll is weird, but still dont forget to go to vote, Democrats.

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[Ken Burch]

3. Why is this happening?

You'd think Mass. voters would want to honor Teddy by making sure his party keeps the seat. Is there some reason voters have a problem with Coakley?

I do hope she wins, just don't know why this might be slipping away.

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[Davis_X_Machina]

6. It's the only way to stop the mandate. n/t

[Blaukraut]

5. Donations are good, but getting out the vote is important, too

From reading the latest polls, the internals, etc, the problem is an apathetic Democratic electorate. The repubs in our state are fired up, the Dems not so much. So phonebanking and driving folks to polling places will be extremely helpful.

I'm not sure if out-of-staters can phonebank (we had folks do so for Kerry in the primaries) but it's worth a try.

http://marthacoakley.com/volunteer

[secondwind]

7. We live in Boston, and rec'd this email today:

Martha needs your help NOW - so even if you can't make it to an event - you can still help by donating any amount at
https://coakley.zissousecure.com/contribute/PFP/mmk

or by emailing or calling headquarters to see how you can volunteer - [e-mail] Phone: [phone]

In Case you having been following the new closely:
An independent group, the American Future Fund, will be spending $300,000 on television advertisements in this senate race between now and January 12. The American Future Fund is a conservative organization whose leaders helped produce the Willie Horton advertisement used against Governor Dukakis and the Swift Boat advertisement used against Senator Kerry. While we have not yet seen the advertisement; we expect it will be negative against Martha. We also expect that the Fund will spend significant additional funds between January 12 and election day, January 19.This is a significant development in the race. Combining the Brown campaign and the American Future Fund spending, we are currently slated to be outspent on television

The latest Rasmussen poll finds Scott Brown narrowing Martha's lead to only nine points - and
> Among voters who are "absolutely certain they will vote, Brown pulls to within two points of Coakley," OUCH!

[totodeinhere]

8. Maybe if Democrats felt that electing her would really advance a progressive agenda they would be...

more enthusiastic for her. But a lot of politicians that we thought were on our side have been letting us down lately, and perhaps a lot of progressives fear that Coakley will be one and the same. This is a wake up call. I don't think that Brown will actually pull it off and win, and other polls don't agree with this result, but if this election is fairly close even in Massachusetts, then this should be a bad omen for Dem chances in the November election and beyond.

[Clio the Leo]

9. But sadly, we do not live in a nation comprised only of progressive voters...

... it's a grand battle for the middle. An idealistic victory has no real-life protection against a Republican agenda.

If more of Nader's anti-war supporters had voted for Gore, would we have ever gone to Iraq?

[totodeinhere]

10. But the passion, the hard work, and the grassroots financial contributions to Dems usually do...

come from the progressive side. And let's face it, without that support Dem candidates will have a harder time winning. I don't dispute that the real battle is for the middle, but to effectively wage that battle, we need enthusiasm from the progressive base. And sadly, that enthusiasm has waned lately because of what we have seen going on in DC vis a vis the health care debate and other issues.

[Clio the Leo]

12. I dont know.....

.... I have a former Republican friend who worked her hind-end off to get Obama elected (the very reason she's a "former" is because of him.) And obviously we all know that progressives worked their butts off too. Sure, a lot of independents became supporters toward the end of the campaign, but he widened the Democratic voting pool so wide in that first Iowa primary that Hillary allegedly accused him of bussing voters in (she couldn't believe that he was attracting all of these new voters.)

That's why I dont buy the notion that his base is only the left half of the left. But even then, he doesn't owe more allegiance to progressives than moderates or independents. As he very clearly said on election night to the people who did NOT vote for him, "I will be your President to!" So he has to do not what's best for the party, or what's best for his "base" (whomever that may be) but he has to do what is best for the nation.

I dont have amnesia from the last 9 years ..... I remember what life under a neocon was like and I remember what the 94 revolution in Congress was like. The GOP was pushing THEIR agenda over what was best for this nation. I didn't like it then.

And I'm not about to advocate that my party do the same thing.

Some say that we have to push a progressive agenda and stifle the right because the GOP will do the same thing when THEY get back into power.

*I* say that if our party TRULY does what is best for this country regardless of what political faction it appeases, if they TRULY make life better for ALL Americans.... then we wont have to worry about the GOP regaining power.

It's like that dog seeing his reflection in a pond ... if we get greedy and try to snatch up all of the bones we risk losing them all.

..... this isn't directed just at you .... I'm just blathering on. ;)

[secondwind]

11. well said..it's not who or what WE believe, it's what the rest of America believes.

[graywarrior]

13. K & R

[Clio the Leo]

14. As I was saying, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.... guess we ARE going to let the teabagger hijack this seat.

[Clio the Leo]

15. "John Kerry's Next!"

is what the crowd at the Brown victory party is shouting right now.

[karynnj]

17. He's not up until 2014

and he is a MUCH better campaigner and is well liked in the state.

[Peacetrain]

19. Seriously..they are that small.. I am not surprised..

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[ShortnFiery]

16. As much as we respected the late Ted Kennedy it was not "his" seat. Nobody OWNS a

seat in the US Senate.

We need to "get over" this dynastic drivel and get to work.

Nostalgia will get us nowhere.

Passing legislation that will help WORKING AMERICANS is the key.

[Clio the Leo]

18. OUR seat then....

.... oh wait, its not our seat anymore.