Bottom Dropping Out Of Kennedy Seat?

If these latest numbers are close and they hold, the psychological ramifications of this election will be un-spin-able. Forget talk of mandates and having been given complete control of power in Washington. What people will think is that Democrats had both and screwed up - big time. If they can't hold Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts with health care reform a key topic for discussion on the campaign trail, passing their version of health care will be the equivalent of declaring war on democracy.

November will look like a killing field for Democrats and I wouldn't count on there being any precedent for it in recent history. It will be a bloodbath.

A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted exclusively for POLITICO shows Republican Scott Brown surging to a nine-point advantage over Martha Coakley a day before Massachusetts voters trek to the ballot box to choose a new senator.

According to the survey conducted Sunday evening, Brown leads the Democratic attorney general 52 percent to 43 percent.

"I actually think the bottom is falling out," said InsiderAdvantage CEO Matt Towery, referring to Coakley's fall in the polls over the last ten days. "I think that this candidate is in freefall. Clearly this race is imploding for her."

Comments

[Ad rem]

Dan...excellent turn of phrase! :-D

[Huey]

**fingers crossed**

**breath bated**

[Teddy's SEARCH+RESCUE]

This is an OUTRAGE!! She has to be a GOP PLANT! OUR FOUNDER'S legacy is going down the drain - http://www.FATBOY.cc

[Al in St. Lou]

We can only hope! And vote!

[Huey]

And, in the even that Brown wins, I don't want to hear a single word negative about him if he reveals himself to be more socially liberal than hard-core conservatives would like, and they start calling him a RINO.

I'll link back to these posts, I will.

Heh.

[mark l.]

the link headline has croakley up by 9...

the text of the story does not support.

[dj]

I think a major point is being missed in the blogosphere about the rise of Brown. It happened without the GOP "establishment". Remember they blew him off, they also thought the election was a shoe in for a Democrat, a formality for what was inevitable. If Brown wins tomorrow, blogs need to get the message out to the "establishment" GOP, your relevancy is slowly eroding away, and that they better do whats right by the people. And secondly, laugh as they might, I am talking both left and right, this win will validate the resurgence of the true grassroots conservative movement and they better start taking it seriously.

[Lightwave]

Are you ready to believe, Dan?

Brown by 12. Been saying that for a while now.

The message here is "If you support Obamacare, you just lost your job." There is no safe seat for the Dems. None. Every single House Dem who voted for it (and the Blue Dogs who didn't.) Every single Democrat in the Senate up for re-election in 2010.

If Brown wins, it's the end of the Democrats for another decade plus. More if the Republicans play their cards right.

Most importantly, it's the beginning of the end of liberalism. From 2012 on I expect to see quite a few changes in the Supreme Court. If the Republicans stay true to conservatism...real conservatism, mind you...then we can roll back seventy years of the nanny state for good.

And if they get greedy and corrupt, well, I'm sure the Dems will have another Obama waiting to wreck the country again.

[Dawson]

War on Democracy?

With the GOP using the filibuster 24/7 to thwart the will of the MAJORITY, you might want to rethink who is declaring a war on democracy.

[Huey]

Dawson...the will of the majority of representatives who are defying the will of the majority of their constituency.

Um...yeah.

dj: Maybe I didn't follow the race closely enough soon enough, but my recollection is that Brown was almost entirely alone, with only his LOCAL "grass roots" support and fought his way from 30 points down or thereabouts and THEN the national "grass roots" began supporting him as a result of many national bloggers with national megaphones trumpeting him. That was when he closed the gap. Had he relied solely on local "grass roots" support, it is entirely likely that he would have lost big.

This is the reason why I support a national "tea party" organization. The ability to throw support to worthy candidates anywhere in the country on a moment's notice is indispensable. It is what our national Republican party is SUPPOSED to do. (Although, if memory serves, Brown has expressed nothing but satisfaction regarding his national support from the Republican Party and has essentially told them to "stay out.")

[Reaganite Republican]

Obviously Lark Evor is going to have some 'splainin to do!

If we can understand him through that beard...

[wolfwalker]

"November will look like a killing field for Democrats"

I thought that when the Dems turned against Bush while Ground Zero was still smoldering. Four years later they were running the country. I will never count them out again.

The American voter has a shorter attention span than a goldfish with ADD, and the Dems know it. They also know how to best manipulate it. Even if they lose this election, they'll find a way to dig out between now and November.

[Budahmon]

Someone named Dawson believes we have a democracy .... It's a Republic my friend...and the filibuster is a Senate rule that has been around since the beginning to allow unlimited debate on a law. It is there so the rights of the minority cannot be easily overridden. It used to be 2/3 vote (66) but was changed to 3/5 (60) in 1975.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." .....Benjamin Franklin

[JorgXMcKie]

Perhaps Dawson could link us to his remarks in which he was unhappy with Democrats using the filibuster to thwart the Republican majority between 2002 and 2006? Otherwise I call lame, partisan bullshit.