Special Senate Election

My phone has never rang for a political anything.

You're doing something wrong.

Reb Cpl wrote: rednekk98 wrote: 14 phone calls today, both campaigns, and pollsters combined. The majority of robo-calls were from Coakley, Brown is actively recruiting people to make personal calls. As soon as you hang up the phone often rings again. Now I know how Iowans feel during the primaries. I'm glad MA matters for once, but holy hell.... Callers for Brown are actually from all over the country. His campaign is recruiting people from everywhere to call MA voters in an effort I guess to make anyone feel like they can help.

Confirmed.

I've already received 3 emails about it from organizing for america (obama's campaign email list). I can only imagine the annoying amount of email people on move on's list are getting.

I'm not certain why Coakley isn't using McCain's email list more effectively. I haven't received an email from that list other than lets defeat health care and deficits are bad mmmkay.

I find the technology gap between the two parties campaigns in the past two years to be rather shocking.

Brown is actually dominating online, and in social media, but we'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if that translates to votes considering brown is likely to have a lot of out of state fans. Coakley's conflicting message of "A vote for Scott Brown is a vote for the status quo" and her trying to portray herself as just like Kennedy falls kinda flat. Republicans and Independants are excited about Scott Brown, Democrats are not excited about Coakley, but may be afraid of Brown or just angry at Republicans. I don't see her pulling many votes across party lines. Her campaign is frankly stale. She's running against Bush in 2004 and Brown is trying to run like Obama in 2008. This has surprised me more than anything.

Brown's message has been: Direct appeal to independants, have an actual debate over health care, not between liberal and conservative democrats and unions. Run on anti-government corruption record

Coakley's message has been: Direct appeal to Democrats, rape victims, and the unemployed. Run on anti private-sector corruption record. Add a healthy dash or fear-mongering as well.

I missed the primary election (first vote I've missed since being registered) but considered it to essentially be the election and figured it was my only real chance to pick. I'd hate to make a prediction and jinx it, but I think short of a video surfacing of brown sodomizing a puppy being released in the next 30 hours or so, he will win. Even if he doesn't, he's already come damned close in a very unlikely state and this race will have serious effects on future campaign strategies and probably the outcome of future elections.

I would be very surprised if brown won...

Besides, Brown drives a truck, and the liberal elites made it clear that if you drive a truck you are not good enough to be a Senator of the US...

The country is centrist. Not radical left or radical right.

Edited by FreeEnterprise - 19 January 2010 at 9:31am

According to CMPA, fox news is the most fair and balanced news network.

choopie911 wrote: FreeEnterprise wrote: According to CMPA, fox news is the most fair and balanced news network. http://www.cmpa.com/releases/07_12_21_Election_Study.pdf   Some people are just closed minded and only view things that fit their personal agenda, but I would assume most on here would at least pretend not to be that way... (cept for a few vocal parties)   And after the way the media has beat the drum for Obama, while we have all watched as 4 million jobs have been lost under this president... I'm sure people are starting to realize they have been led to the slaughter by the media elite. If you HONESTLY think Fox News is the most fair and balanced, you're out to lunch. They had so many errors last year they had to reboot with a zero-errors policy, removing everything non-essential to ensure accuracy. They didnt make it one month without several more errors. I know we won't change your mind, but using Fox News as your sole reliable source is just crazy.

Easy, it tells people what they want to hear.

I don't know if this has already been posted, but even if it has, it needs to be brought up again.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/health.care/index.html

"Better than nothing?"  Is that really what this has come down to?  "Oh, we don't really care what is in the health care bill, we're shaking **edited** up no matter what. Who cares if we no longer feel like we're representing our constituents." I can imagine that even democrats are happy with this kind of thinking, because obviously this means that they care more about passing the bill as a statement than making a "solid plan."