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UPDATE: NEW START TIME: 6:45 p.m. ET (that may change as we get our ducks in a row, and get hold of exit polling results).

We’re going to have two ways for you to have fun here while the election results come in. We’ll set these up @ 4 p.m. ET:

(1) We’ll have a live chat — it’s very easy to use, no registration is required, and you just drop in and start chatting or read others’ live chat comments.

(2) We’ll have a live blogging thread running

If you spot any great videos or images, bring them with you to the live chat because we can display videos and images in the live chat software — just as you can now with our new comments software.

Please also share anything interesting that you’ve read at other blogs or in the MSM.

Right now, I’m thinking about all the excuses that the Coakley Dems are going to be coming up with — from misogny to those frightening teabaggers. I’m thinking of items like this howler: Kerry Warns of “Dangerous Atmosphere” Around Brown Rallies

  • getfitnow

    I’ll be here for the rolling Brown Out! :-D

  • MrX

    “Join Us Tonight For Election Coverage”

    OK, I’m here.  Let me know when there are exit polls.

  • getfitnow
  • getfitnow

    Batchelor: White House Schilling

    January 19, 2010 by Brenda J. Elliott

    John Batchelor writes on his blog:
    Independents 68 to 27 for Brown
    Late news on Election Day eve in Massachusetts that a Martha Coakley event at a local high school was so poorly attended that aides drew curtains to partition off the empty part of the space. Coakley has never recovered from the Curt Schilling brain freeze.
    The Secretary of State projects a turnout of as much as 2.2 million of the 4 million total

  • MrX

    I’m hearing in North Andover lines of at least 1 hour.  Usually not good for Brown, but they’re saying it’s a High School where the entire area has to go while buses and everyone else is going before work.

    High turnout before work.

  • HARP

    I`ll be there, ready to do the happy dance.

  • Olivia1998

    me too. Can’t wait.

  • Breeze
  • I’m a Linda too

    roflmao  I’ll be here!!!

    Radio Talk Show Host, Michael  on FOX “Coakley Campaign, she didn’t run the Hindenburg Campaign,  she didn’t run the Titanic Campaign, she ran the Hindenburg crashing in to the Titanic Campaign.”

  • creeper

    Thanks for the report, MrX.

    I’m nost sure why a high turnout should work against Brown.  From what we’ve seen, his supporters are far more energized than Coakley’s.  Usually it’s the candidates reflecting the status quo that are hurt by a high turnout, especially when voters aren’t happy with the status quo.

    Weather’s not very good in Mass. today.  I wonder what effect that might have. 

    Doesn’t it all boil down to enthusiasm for your candidate?

  • creeper

    Rasmussen still screwed up today.  It loaded earlier but with Monday’s results.  Latest attempt gets “connection reset by peer.”

    Aha!  It’s back…still showing Monday’s results.

    That site is usually solid as a rock.  If I were a paranoid person I’d think someone was messing with it.

  • MrX

    I’m now hearing low turnout in Boston.  Many areas elsewhere are high, but others are empty.  It’s hard to say what this all means.

  • MrX

    http://www.charlotteconservative.com/index.php/2010/01/brown-coakley-exit-polls/

    Early exit polls in the Gardner, Fitchburg and Peabody areas show Brown leading by 14, 17, and 15% points. While too early to call a lock similar continued results by 2 – 3pm should confirm the loss by Martha Coakley.

    All three early predictors have Scott Brown gaining over 50% of the states voters in a sweeping come from behind victory.

  • MrX

    I should add I don’t know if these aren’t the bellwether polls from Suffolk.  Wish they didn’t call them exit polls.

  • Onofre’s arm

    Coakley may have inherited the grumpy electorate from George Bush. It’s ALL Bush’s fault. 

  • WMCB

    Gavin Newsome gets it. Let’s hope the rest of the party wakes up, but I won’t hold my breath. <blockquote>”Regardless of the outcome (in Massachusetts) this should be a gigantic wakeup call to the Democratic party — that we’re not connecting with the needs, the aspirations and the desires of real people right now,” Newsom said. “We better get our act together — and quickly.” “There’s real intensity and fervor out there, as represented by the tea party and others… <b>that we’re belittling,</b>” he said.</blockquote> <blockquote>”Washington D.C. is completely disconnected. So is Sacramento. So I’m really fearful,” he said. “I see this thing tipping in the wrong direction” that could result in the loss of Congressional seats in the Central Valley. “This is real. At our own peril, we dismiss these tea parties as some sort of isolated extremism. It’s not,” Newsom said.</blockquote> Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=55512#ixzz0d4o48uEo

  • creeper

    Sent this query to Rasmussen:

    “For the past two days I have been having problems loading your website.
    Since it usually runs solid as a rock, I don’t understand why.

    My interest is in the Daily Tracking Poll and it’s not running well.

    It either won’t load at all (“connection reset” or “timed out”) or it
    returns strange pages…notice to sign up for premium service,
    yesterday’s poll results or current text minus the graph.

    Are you undergoing a software upgrade or change”

    Got back a rather non-committal reply:

    We have been experiencing technical difficulties with our server over the last few days.  We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience”

    They didn’t really answer my question but then it looks like this may be some sort of form letter. 

    Not loadaing again.

  • margaret

    After saying over and over that I would vote for Scott Brown, I didn’t.  I voted for Martha Coakley, because – despite her now capitulating to Obama – she has been a fine prosecutor and attorney general with a stellar record on women’s and children’s issues and gay rights.  I have been appalled by unfounded attacks on her record here and elsewhere, and concerned about the glorification of Brown – about whom we know little (sound familiar?).  Likewise I’ve been concerned at how easily criticism of him has been dismissed (again, sound familiar?) 

    I was so tempted to cast a ‘protest’ vote for Scott Brown, but ultimately decided that voting for another slick misogynist was a pretty weird way to make my voice heard.  I didn’t want suffer buyer’s remorse later like so many others who a short time ago fell for another con artist.  Would I have liked to say F U to Obama, absolutely.  But there has to be a better way to say it.

  • Mary cusack

    ACORN is so full of nice people. They gave my mom and dad a ride to the polls today. All the way from St. Mary’s Cemetary. Oh boy. Martha Coakley is so lucky to have ACORN work for her!!!

  • Animal Control

    “Scott Brown, … another slick misogynist”

    Please explain or provide some authority.

    Thanks

  • Hillary or Bust

    Who are you? I’ve never seen you here before. Sorry, but you sound like a canned bot. I’ll bet you are going around posting this lie all over blogs like this on the Internet. I saw this sort of thing during the election.

    Sorry, not buying it.

  • margaret

    I’ve been posting here since early in the Democratic primary.  I am sorry I sound to you like a canned bot. I’m not. I’m a feminist.

  • margaret

    Did you hear how condescending he was to Martha during the debates?  Did you know he wanted women who needed emergency contraception after rape to get sent to another facility (as if a traumatized woman could cope with that!!).  And he isn’t exactly pro-choice.   My authority for saying he is a slick misogynist is my experience, my perception – and I said exactly the same about Obama.  I think Scott Brown is one smart politician – and maybe I will be proven wrong – but I think he’s playing the wave of anti-Obama sentiment and then will do whatever he pleases once elected.  Again, maybe I am wrong.  I just think – why should another qualified woman’s career get wrecked by a man with way less experience.  And again, isn’t this a scenario we have seen before.

    It was not an easy vote.  I will have to live with her rubber stamping Obama if she wins. 

  • Mamatex

    Check this out.  Reported from Lawrence MA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2fNwttq23s

  • arabella trefoil

    I’m a feminist too, and I’m tired of being taken for granted by the Democratic party. After the misogynistic excesses of Obama’s campaign, I decided “These people hate women. Why vote for them?”

    I voted for McCain/Palin – first Republican vote I ever cast i n my life. Certainly I respect your point of view. No Quarter, unlike so many other sites on the internet, is not a place that shouts down people with different views. But for me, voting for a woman simply because she is a woman makes no sense. As a feminist, I believe that women have intellects and can make rational choices. I looked at Coakley’s record, and there was plenty in there to make me think twice about her.

    It’s time for me (for me, not necessarily anybody else) to start speaking to Republicans and finding common ground with them. The two party system as it is is  broken. I will continue to vote for Rebulicans in order to defeat Obama and his gang. And I will continue to talk to both Republicans and Democrats so that we can rebuild a two party system that works. That is, a two party system that is not beholden to special interests and does not treat the electorate like dummies who are easily manipulated with “wedge issues.”

    Thank you for your post, margaret.

  • AnnieCarmel

    BS

  • WestVirginia304

    City figures show 23,667 people voted as of 9 a.m. Voting was heaviest in West Roxbury’s Ward 20, where 2,626 people voted. Morning turnout was the lightest in Ward 15, which covers parts of Dorchester. The city said so far 313 voters cast ballots there.

    Source:
    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1226665&srvc=home&position=active

    Here is some history.  2008 General.
    Dorchester.   Turnout: 76%.  Obama: 84%
    W. Roxbury.  Turnout: 82%.  Obama: 59%*

    *W. Roxbury had the lowest Obama percentage in the city.

    Source:
    http://bostonmaelections.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/boston-election-analysis-2008-general/#more-32

  • PortiaElizabeth

    Margaret — I consider myself a feminist, too, in the sense of speaking up for women’s right to equal treatment, but there are some issues that transend gender. Ethics are one of the most important IMO. If you’ve been reading regularly, you must have come across postings by jbjd who has personal knowledge of Coakley through her own work in the courts system in Massachusetts. jbjd has written in detail how Martha has operated in a less-than-ethical manner in her capacity as a district attorney. Coakley has also appeared to be guilty of abuse of power. You say you don’t know that much about Scott Brown, but you evidently don’t know much about Coakley either.

    It would seem that you really haven’t benefitted from the wealth of info on this site even though you have regular access to it. If you would vote for a candidate just because she’s a woman, then you have committed the same error as those who voted for Obama just because he was black. And if you say your vote was because you don’t know Brown that well, then I must ask, why did you not do some research? One major thing I’ve found about Brown is that people are NOT coming out of the woodwork to trash his record as a state senator and people are NOT showing him to be a fool. 

  • Daisy Mae

    Ditto, Arabella.  I am so over the Dim Party, now an Indy.  Will work to vote these Dims. out.  The Dims. have used women, and they are not the party of women.  Neither party is.  I’m going to register today as a Repub., merely to vote in my state’s primary (closed).

    The Dims. offer me same old hacks, part of Judas Richardson’s corrupt bunch.  Time for a new (corrupt?) bunch.

  • Hillary or Bust

    Still not buying it. Any real feminist would have an issue with Coakley’s lack of prosecution of the cop who molested his niece with a curling iron. Your original post still sounds to me like something an astroturf organization would put people up to. “Slick misogynist”? Give me a break.

  • AnnieCarmel

    From Drudge this morning…the Dims may have one eye open:

    “Regardless of the outcome … this should be a gigantic wake-up call to the Democratic Party – that we’re not connecting with the needs, the aspirations and the desires of real people right now,” said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
    With Republican Scott Brown poised to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts race to succeed the late Edward Kennedy, Democrats at the annual Martin Luther King community breakfast in San Francisco were buzzing about the impacts of such an upset: an end to the party’s 60-vote supermajority and a possible mortal blow to the health care legislation championed by President Obama.

    Ripple effects

    But Democrats also considered the ripple effects on coming elections in the nation’s most populous state.
    “We better get our act together – and quickly,” Newsom said. Voters “are so angry. They don’t feel that we’re paying attention to their needs, in terms of their jobs, and what’s going on at the grassroots, in their neighborhoods.”
     This was my response last week to Gavin Newsom and Vicki Kennedy’s money plea for Coakley:  (Apologies to text I ripped off from NQ’ers from our previous thread about what to tell Dem fundraisers…you probably don’t really mind).
    “Dear Gavin:  As a former life long Democrat, I might consider voting Democrat again when you consider having fair primaries; when you stop supporting ACORN thugs; when President Hillary Clinton and Vice President Sarah Palin are in the White House.  And, when Barry, Michelle, Harry and Nancy are living on Devil’s Island, do get back in touch with me.   Anytime I can waste your time, is a good time for me.  By the way, in case you’re at all interested, I’m now a 5/31/08 Independent and I vote straight Republican ticket now and until Washington is cleansed of the racist Kennedys, Obamas, Dodd, Rangle, Frank, Schumer, and Clyburn.  Add in Turbo Tax Timmy too.  Apparently, you have no idea how enraged we are…there in your little SF bubble.”
    Wonder how many similar responses he received.  Evidently enough that he’s passing on the message.

  • Cindy

    Funny!

  • Anonymous

    Coakley is a good public servant and a terrible politician. Her strategy mirrored Hillary’s strategy for the nomination, and we all know how that turned out. She made every conceivable mistake: failed to respond to opponent attacks, failed to organize and solidify her base (2 field offices to Brown’s 9), failed to define the race in simple terms (“the failed Republican agenda”), failed to define her own values and goals (how about “no more business as usual?”), failed to attack and ridicule her opponent’s weaknesses (“a male Palin”; “a wolf, not in sheep’s clothing, but in no clothing”), and failed to treat the nomination for Kennedy’s seat with the respect it deserved.

    By the way early reports are that the turn-out is huge, which favors Coakley. My money is on Coakley. The polls were very unpredictable. Just two weeks ago they predicted a Coakley easy win. Also, when I looked at the cross tabs of the Suffolk University poll and saw that they (in my opinion) over represented North of Boston and South of Boston and underrepresented Boston I knew that not much stock could be put into the numbers. (Really 8% of respondents from Suffolk County compared to 35% from NOB and 33% from SOB) with 26% Worcester/West

    The numbers just didn’t make sense. I think Coakley has more support than the polls would indicate.

  • Docelder

    Single issue voters deserve what they get.

  • Anonymous

    Brown represents the failed policies of the Bush era. He brings nothing to the table.

  • arabella trefoil

    Dear AnnieCarmel,

    What are you calling “BS”?

    Thank you

  • Guest

    Republican-led Congresses are never going to have a particularly credible strategy on women’s issues. All I want now is fiscal responsibility the kind that we had in the ’90′s. Whether Obama will provide the necessary discipline for that as Clinton did is difficult to imagine. But if this country doesn’t find a way to pull back from the downward spiral of a permanently hemorrhaging debtor nation, you can forget about exercising any other form of power on the world stage.

    Truly if American’s do not have jobs, health care and assets, nothing else will matter….

  • felizarte

    My sentiments exactly, Arabella,

    Being a true feminist to me means allowing women to compete on a level playing field and prevailing because of better talent, character, vision, ideas, values, as in Hillary Clinton.  Just having the biological parts do not automatically earn them my vote.

  • arabella trefoil

    Guest,

    You are critical of Hillary’s strategy for the nomination. What was wrong (specifically) with her strategy? We know more and more about what went on behind the scenes during the Democratic nomination process. The powers that be did not want Hillary. They were willing to put forward anybody except Hillary. Obama was their man by default once it was clear that Edwards was going down in flames.

    The nomination process was rigged so that the selected puppet (Obama) could win the nomination. Obama and his minions practiced massive voter fraud, misogynistic attacks, and totally overwhelmed liberal blogs in a well-planned attempt to stifle any expression of support for Hillary. Still, Hillary kept coming back in the face of a formidable array of obstacles.

    Guest, did you vote for Obama? Your little side-swipe at Hillary makes me think you’re a bot.

  • Anonymous

    “NQ is not a place that shouts down other with different views.” That is a good one. Instead they just ban them.

    Arabella, so you like the policies of the Republicans over the Democrats and you call yourself a feminist? Can you tell me what the Republicans have done for women, ever? Seems stupid to vote for Republicans to spite the Democrats. How about just not voting? The Republican party has taken a hard turn to the right. They are more anti-abortion and even less womens rights. The neaderthal southern middle age white men who control that party of absolutely nothing in common with you.

  • AnnieCarmel

    “(“a male Palin”; “a wolf, not in sheep’s clothing, but in no clothing”), and failed to treat the nomination for Kennedy’s seat with the respect it deserved.”

    Are you sure you’re on the right blog “Guest”?  I can’t believe any regular here would use those terms.  IT IS NOT THE KENNEDY SEAT, you little concern troll you.  I expect we’ll have quite a few “Guests” today trying to take the shine off of our hope.  Get lost.

  • AnnieCarmel

    arabella, that was directed to “Margaret”.  I don’t believe for a minute she’s posted anything here but negative posts.

  • Hillary or Bust

    Where on earth do you get the silly idea that a huge turnout favors Coakley? It does not. It favors Brown. She couldn’t fill a middle school auditorium yesterday. A big turnout is bad for her. I’m not saying it’s a lock for Brown (I’m biting my nails as we speak) but I don’t think it looks good for Coakley. If she does win, it will be by a hair.

  • AnnieCarmel

    ditto, docelder.  But I don’t.

  • Animal Control

    Hillary and by extension, the American People were robbed.  The idea that Hillary ran a poor campaign is nothing but an OBOT talking point.

  • Animal Control

    Furthermore, Hillary received more votes.  If Martha receives more votes then she should win.  But this did not apply to Hillary–why is that BOT?

  • Docelder

    You are not the disease, but you are one of it’s symptoms. We will either right this today with the vote, or this can’t be righted by votes alone. This is the last hurrah. After today, either democracy works or it no longer can. The government can’t go forever against the will of the people. If Coakley takes this through fraud, then we may see states move toward secession.

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    It rained cats and dogs all the way to work this morning in San Francisco…damn you Bush!! Now I’m all wet!

  • Anonymous

     you trust the polling, the outcome of this race is going to be determined by the field operations of the respective campaigns. I have to think that the Democrats do have a better operation going for them.

    I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal saying that Coakley volunteers was up from Thursday to Saturday and nearly 3500 people made about 500,000 calls. This in comparison to the 500 volunteers/125,000 daily calls of the Brown campaign is a huge difference. If the Democrats are able to harness the field energy that pushed them through the 2008 election in close states, Coakley will probably prevail. It seems so far that Democrats have woken up in MA and across the country and the massive contact list of OFA may just be the most important tool Coakley has.

    There is no doubt that Brown has run a far better campaign but I can’t help but think that in a blue state like MA, the Dem field operation will be strong enough to push her over the top if Nate’s analysis of a 2 point Brown edge is accurate.

  • AnnieCarmel

    Intrade has Brown up, up, up and Coakley in the tank. 

  • Anonymous

    Couldn’t fill a middle school yesterday? You watch too much FOX.

    See: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/fox-news-coakley-rally-has-plenty-empty-sea

    In a hugely democratic state high turnout clearly favors the democrat.

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    It shows how far we really are from the “content of their character”. So, I’m a mysoginist pig if I vote purely for the penis, but I should in knee jerk fashion vote for the vagina to prove how gender neutral and supportive of women I am?

  • getfitnow

    I haven’t heard any report from Rasmussen

  • Anonymous

    Intrade doesn’t mean much….. will be all about turn-out and field operations.

  • arabella trefoil

    Guest, please tell me how I have shouted down others with different views? What examples have you to show me?

    Guest, I think you are tipping your hand just a wee bit too much by suggesting that not voting is an option. As I have said recently, I am now actively voting for Republicans in order to get rid of the Democrats have in office now. Specifically, I mean the Democrats who are beholden to special interests, ignoring the economic hardship Americans are enduring due to the economy, and trying to shove a health care bill through the Congress that nobody wants.

    Why do you bring up stereotypes like “neanderthal middle age white men”? This is the sort of divisive talk that is not constructive to our getting together and solving American’s problems. I haven’t met anyone like that.

    I am not a single issue voter. As far as the abortion issue goes, I fought that fight back in the 1960′s and 1970′s. Let the younger generation fight it again if necessary.  As a 57 year old who is going back to college, let me tell you the young women in my classes do not think abortion or birth control will ever be taken away or restricted. Ditto for my nieces. I would like you to note that I am not stereotyping here – I am reporting my own experiences with young women.

    I have met many Republican men and women who have the same concerns as I do. They want jobs. They want housing, They want better schools. They want Americans to get along with one another. They are very tired of the way the political system works now.

    Your mode of address to me has features of obotism. I would note in closing that “divide and conquer” is rule one from Obama’s play book.

  • Hillary or Bust

    No, actually, I got that report on the middle school from Jake Tapper from ABC. And this idea that a huge turnout “clearly” favors the Democrat is hogwash. The Democrats aren’t invigorated; the tea party people are. Anyone who votes for Coakley is only doing so by holding their noses. I read tons of progressive blogs and lots of liberals are ticked off at Obama and don’t like the health care bill. Many of them intend to stay home in 2012 or vote green. Wake up.

  • Anonymous

    Funny comment!

  • arabella trefoil

    Thanks a lot for clarifying.

  • Anonymous

    Not your website! Anyone can comment.

    It is funny a poster above says “No Quarter, unlike so many other sites on the internet, is not a place that shouts down people with different views.” You obviously seem to have a different view. You right-wingers talk about “freedom” until you disagree.

  • Docelder

    Yes, they don’t represent what Americans want right now at all. Instead they represent some far left agenda that is so removed from anything traditional democrats ever believed in. Pelosi now is talking about passing the already voted on senate health bill. Those senators who said they only voted yes knowing it will be redrafted anyway… think again. These politicians do not care about real people. They have their larger agenda and the people be damned they are following it. This may fracture the country in pieces.

  • Animal Control

    Guest, are you a representative of that Hydra with the pliers?

  • Hokma

    Poor choice of words by Chris Van Hollen concerning this election for the seat once held by Ted Kennedy:

    “Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” Van Hollen said

    I wouldn’t be talking about “keys to the car” and driving into a ditch when referring to Ted Kennedy’s seat.

  • Docelder

    Or vote for the melanin content of the skin. It is just about as ignorant.

  • Hokma

    Even if there is a last minute surge for Coakley, Democrats have already lost. More importantly this is a major wake up call to every Democrat who thought they were in a safe district. NO district is safe this year.

    Democrats who heretofore were just following Pelosi and Obama’s lead off the cliff are going to take a second look before voting for this reckless healthcare overhaul.

  • Animal Control

    Guest, and you apparently can’t read.  Where does Annie claim it’s her site  duffus?

  • WestVirginia304

    Guest.  You should scroll up and read my earlier comment.  If the ward that went worst for Obama in 08 has the highest turnout and the ward that had one of the best Obama votes in 08 is having the lowest turnout then the only way MC can pull this out is if the democrats empty the busses just before the polls close.

  • oowawa

    Ready to do the happy dance indeed!

    Ain’t no sin
    To take off your skin
    And dance around in your bones . . .

  • Docelder

    Field Operations – You mean the voter buses, the dead voter brigade and the ballot boxes found in the trunks of cars?

  • arabella trefoil

    Guest,

    Now you reveal yet another characteristic of obot posters: calling people “not real Democrats” or “Right-wingers.” Next you will doubtless call this a Republican website.

    Who is shouting you down? People are disagreeing with you, but it’s their right to do so. AnnieCarmel was using her analytical skills to see what your true intentions are. You are using terms that regular posters here don’t use. That was an observation. And an accurate one at that.

    What do you mean by this:

    “You right-wingers talk about ‘freedom’ until you disagree.”

    That sentence makes no sense. If you are posting here to pick a fight, you will not succeed.

  • arabella trefoil

    What industry are you in, Guest? I haven’t read the Wall Street Journal in years. Are you in finance?

  • Mass Voter

    I am so sad you voted for a woman who because a man who raped his neice with a hot device was politically connected she would not prosecute.  The next DA did.

    THe police UNIONS would not support her.  SHe is the AG?!?

    She destroyed lives in false daycare sex abuse cases.

    THis is not a distortion I lived through it.

    I am so sad for you.

  • arabella trefoil

    :lol:

    That post comparing ACORN to a hydra with a pair of pliers was one of the funniest things I read in a long time. How does a hydra (many headed beast with no hands) use pliers? How does the hydra share one pair of pliers amongst all the heads?

  • arabella trefoil

    Oh yes. They see the blood in the water for the upcoming elections. That’s why so many of them are retiring.

  • Mary Jo

    Good One Hokma!  Excellent catch.

  • oowawa

    Oh Hokma–that wasn’t a ditch–it was a canal–not nearly the same!

  • oowawa

    Oh Hokma–that wasn’t a ditch–it was a canal–not nearly the same!

  • Hokma

    Pickey!

    I just wouldn’t use reckless driving metaphors at all when referring to Ted Kennedy.

  • Guest

     
    A lot of things contributed to her loss… Lack of neutrality among key Democratic leaders, Media bias, the Caucuses, Out and out fraud, a systemic failure of the democratic system…That being said, Hillary gets some blame for her campaign’s inconsistent message, failure to anticipate many superdelegates were looking for alternatives to her, running out of money for the Feb contests. But really I think the decision to use Penn’s strategy of inevitably was where it all really started. Once longtime democratic fundraisers and donors went to now Pres Obama that should have been a real wake up call to her team that despite the lead in the polls Barack definitely had appeal & was a major challenger. I don’t think until she lost Iowa that her team really understood that. It should be a lesson though to future candidates. It doesn’t matter how many advantages you think you have never underestimate your opponents.  
     
    These issues have received very little attention thus far. I’m waiting for  someone to write an impartial book about the primaries that brings some of these factors to light, but I think I’m going to wait a long, long time.

  • creeper

    This from Rasmussen’s site, which back up for the time being:

    “We apologize for the disruption in our online service yesterday and continue to investigate the cause.”

  • oowawa
  • AC

    Guest, and I’m waiting for you to get that swamp out of you brain.  You try to sound smart but it mostly sounds like a smart alec,  continually changing the issue and presenting new issues to obfuscate what you said before.  Get lost!

  • Hokma

    Rasmussen who is the most reliable pollster said that a large turnout will favor Coakley and she would win by a slim margin.

    However, win or lose, this election is a major loss for Obama and Democrats. It is a proof that even the safest seat is not safe in this next election.

    It will also send enough chills into Democrats so that they take a second look at blindly following the lead of Obama and Pelosi in signing off on this abhorrent healthcare debacle and risk losing their own seat.

  • Binky

    I have trouble understanding why anyone would identify Brown as a misogynist, or one the other hand how Coakley has done so much for children:

    http://bigjournalism.com/ghewson/2010/01/19/on-election-day-a-citizen-journalist-reminds-martha-coakley-uncle-hurt-me/

  • getfitnow

    I read no exit polls until tomorrow. It was suppose to be a walk away for Coakley.

  • getfitnow

    Here it is from WSJ:

    Mr. Brown’s surge was so sudden that many of the usual accoutrements of closely-contested elections are missing in the Bay State.
    One is exit polls. There will be none tonight from Massachusetts, disappointing journalists and political scientists alike. As Mike Allen of Politico.com reports, the consortium of news outlets that normally organizes such surveys didn’t bother when the race was expected to be a blowout and now “wasn’t confident a reliable system could be built so fast.”
    Another casualty of the expectation that the race would be a cakewalk for the Democrat will be an absence of absentee ballot fraud, the preferred method of putting an illegal thumb on the scale in a close race. Applications for absentee ballots had to be submitted by last Friday, providing little opportunity for those with ill intent to organize such an effort once they realized the race had tightened up.

  • AnnieCarmel

    Wrong again, “Guest”.  Life-long Dem turned Independent by the ACORN thugs, stolen primaries and cranks like you calling me racist…after a lifetime upholding and speaking for civil rights.  “Now she’s gone, she’s really gone.”  Hahahahahahahahahahaha. 

    “Guest” gets a little touchy when called out just for what he/she is:  Troll/Bot, come to add words of discouragement.

  • AC

    Enlightening link, Binky.  It appears Coakley practices unequal treatment under the law.  Good riddance.

  • margaret

    Nice.  Women’s rights as a single issue.  Awesome.  NQ is turning into a cesspool of sexism

  • margaret

    I’m sad, Mass voter, that you believe the man wasn’t prosecuted because he was and is now in jail.  I just don’t get it.  And those daycares did abuse kids.  I can’t believe the lies everyone is believing.  Twilight zone

  • margaret

    I am a lifelong MA resident, I know a lot about Coakley, and find the recent critiques of her to be nothing but smears.  I found her ethical as a prosecutor and an AG.  I agree on ethics, and anyone who thinks I voted for her just because she’s a woman wasn’t listening. I  would never vote, for example, for Nancy Pelosi.  I voted for Martha because I like her record, and I don’t think a woman should be the fall guy for Obama.

  • margaret

    Um, since when was there a feminist police deciding what feminists should believe?  For crying out loud that cop WAS prosecuted and is now in jail, I know his mother.  This site is getting out of control.  And give me a break if you couldn’t hear what a condescending asshole Brown was to Coakley during the last debate.  I am no astroturf whatever, what the heck is happening to free speech?  NQ has for so long been a haven for independent thinkers but it looks like that is changing now.  Unbelievable,

  • arabella trefoil

    Where in MA do you live, margaret? My dad’s family is from Indian Orchard.

  • margaret

    Nice try AnnieCarmel to silence another woman.  Oh yes, just tell the woman she’s negative to try and shut her up.  A fine example of misogyny coming from a woman. 

  • arabella trefoil

    Did you go to school with his mother? What town is she from?

    There are no feminist police here. No curling irons either.

    As to free speech, you can keep on typing as long as you want to. People are free to disagree with one another.

  • arabella trefoil

    margaret – You are a self-proclaimed feminist and life long resident of MA. I would like to believe that you are made of sterner stuff. The feminists I know in Cambridge would not take umbrage with what AnnieCarmel said. Accusing a woman of misogyny on such thin evidence is a bit over-sensitive, no?

    Where do you live in MA, and where did you vote?

  • AC

    Margaret, it seems you idea of independent thinkers is people that agree with you.  Did Ms Coakley prosecute that cop or was it another prosecutor?

  • arabella trefoil

    margaret – I’m afraid you sound more and more like an obot to me. In fact, I don’t think you are a woman at all.

    How old are you? What forms of birth control were available to women in the 1970′s?

  • arabella trefoil

    Which “daycares” abused the kids?

  • Kat Moon

    True. Docelder, sadly true.

  • foxyladi14

    it.s a real nail bi =-O tter

  • buddy2366

    The union vote and special interest groups won’t match the brown teams excitement Bown will win 53% tonight beat her by 75,000 votes what do you think ?

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