By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 19, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
BELOW: An update on how to hear Larry Johnson on the radio tonight re Massachusetts. UPDATE: TUNE IN to John Batchelor’s live coverage of the election results with the best pundits around. To listen, open iTunes, click on Radio, click on News/Talk Radio, and then scroll down to WABC-AM, and click. See below [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 19, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
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 [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 18, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
I get Jake Tapper’s Twitters & Facebook feeds. Here’s one from Karen Tumulty that he passed along just now:
“Jake Tapper RT @ktumulty coakley rally, set to start in five minutes in middle school gym, is 3/4 empty. they’ve pulled curtain across middle of gym.”
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 18, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
First things first: NoQuarter will provide full coverage and live blogging on Tuesday night’s Massachusetts results, and Larry Johnson will be a commentator on John Batchelor’s election coverage radio show.
(1) “Brown Has 9.6% Lead in New Poll,” insidemedford.com.
(2) “Sources: Obama advisers believe Coakley will lose,” CNN
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 16, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
What does a candidate like Martha Coakley do when the enthusiasm for her U.S. Senate seat opponent Scott Brown far outweighs any excitement for her? She stoops to the lowest possible attacks in an ugly but sometimes effective tactic of dampening the support of her opponent’s backers. (I’ll describe those tactics below the fold.)
GOP [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 16, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
I just got another desperate missive from Sen. John Kerry. The Democrats are in complete panic mode over the prospects that Scott Brown may defeat Martha Coakley on Tuesday. Here’s John’s fear-riddled, excessively wordy e-mail to me (and probably all of you who were ever on anyone’s e-mail list*). I have boldfaced [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 16, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
Promo for the January 18th show bumped down. Listen to the show at any time by clicking on the icon.
Join Sins of Omission Monday, January 18, 2010 at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles discusses:
WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR A WOMAN TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY?
Pundits confidently predicted that 2008 was the “Year of [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 15, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
NoQuarter author Ani spotted this comment in a thread following a report at Politico. Ben, who commented, makes a compelling case for giving us all pause about Obamacare since his experience with mandated health insurance in Massachusetts has been so poor:
I am a lifelong Democrat who will vote for Brown on Tuesday. My main reason [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 15, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
Rather than try to encapsulate this new article, or even quote from it, I implore you to read this shocking op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal: “Martha Coakley’s Convictions – The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.” Yes, the author Dorothy Rabinowitz is [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 15, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
Video Update (h/t HARP):
Breaking News: “Poll shocker: Scott Brown surges ahead in Senate race,” Boston Herald. (Brown: 50; Coakley: 46)
Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 14, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
As we’ve seen in John Batchelor’s and my posts in the past few days, Martha Coakley has suddenly found herself in a tight race that she’d assumed was hers for the taking. But, as Batchelor wrote, the latest Rasmussen polls shows her in a dead heat, 49-47. Now she sticks her foot in [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 14, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
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By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 13, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
Yes, the drama on TV news today is grainy video showing a Weekly Standard reporter being pushed to the ground by a Coakley staffer outside last night’s fundraiser. However the real drama is described in a editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal — Coakley’s Saviors – The health-care industry rides to the Democratic rescue. [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
UPDATES: Don’t miss the internal Democratic party memo, posted at the end of this blog post: “Internal Memo To Top Dem Donors Warns Mass Senate Race Is “Very Tight,” “Urgent””
ALSO: Tune in to John Batchelor’s radio show, on at 9:10 p.m, which will cover the Scott Brown saga. Tune in via iTunes, then [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on Jan 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | Comments
Stop for a second and imagine — just imagine! — the hue and cry from the mainstream media had Sarah Palin said something like this! We’d never hear the end of it! If this got the non-stop coverage it deserves, this would spell the end of Coakley’s campaign, and assure Scott Brown’s [...]