Obama to Campaign for Democrat Coakley in Massachusetts
ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Karen Travers report:
The White House has announced that President Obama will travel to Massachusetts Sunday to campaign for the Democratic Senate candidate, state attorney general Martha Coakley.
The decision is a clear indication that Democrats are worried about Coakley's chances of holding on to the Senate seat Ted Kennedy occupied for 47 years, in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 3-to-1 margin.
Coakley is squaring off against Republican state Sen. Scott Brown in Tuesday’s special election. Recent polling shows a tight race and analysts are calling it a toss-up as the candidates head into the final weekend.
The presidential visit to Boston will be interpreted as a sign of desperation and significant concern that Democrats are going to lose a critical Senate seat in one of the most Democratic states in the nation. Democrats say President Obama is still popular with the independent voters Coakley needs to win — almost as popular with them as he was on Election Day.
President Obama taped a robo-call going out to Massachusetts voters today, funded by the Democratic National Committee.
“I rarely make these,” he says in his pitch for the Democratic candidate. “But I had to talk to you about the election in Massachusetts on Tuesday because the stakes are so high.”
Obama also recorded a video message on Coakley’s behalf and in it he makes it clear that the outcome of this race will have a big impact on the legislative battles in Washington, because losing one seat means losing that magic number of 60 votes in the Senate.
UPDATE: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a shot at Brown from the podium, saying he "feels comfortable fighting for the insurance industry and big banks." He described the special election as "a referendum on who's side are you on," not on President Obama.
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HAti doesn’t matter anymore
Posted by: another crisis, another photo-op | January 15, 2010, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
Sen. Schumer Calls Brown a ‘far-right tea-bagger’…
—————————————- and YOU Schumer are a low life socialist
Posted by: another crisis, another photo-op | January 15, 2010, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Given his poll numbers and history campaigning for other candidates – his presence is a sure win for Brown. While HE might be popular with the I’s – his policies aren’t.
Posted by: The BoBo | January 15, 2010, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
I guess the Haiti updates just weren’t cutting it. How blind do Dema have to be not to see how HC “reform” is killing them. There is something in their bill to offend every American and the latest union give away may have sunk the boat. What a shame.
Posted by: Pablo | January 15, 2010, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
Wow… How can this be going on in Mass? I hear Coakley is being compared with Craig Deeds. Seems crazy.
Posted by: Denbo | January 15, 2010, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
Gibbs has no business taking the cheap shots that he does. He’s like a fat kid at the prom with an ugly girl. O needs to replace this punk!
Posted by: Norm Coleman | January 15, 2010, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
As a resident of the Commonwealth, this isn’t just about the issues, trust me. Coakley is an unfortunately unattractive candidate – seems cold, has some unpleasant closets from DA days — whereas Brown is a good looking ‘haircut’. Sorry that lookism and general appearance of niceness is in play. It is too bad that no one showed up for the dem primary except Coakley supporters.
This is NOT about HC reform, it IS about the relative likeability of the two people.
Posted by: Lisa | January 15, 2010, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
Nobody left to bribe so the President of the united ststes actually gets involved in state politics WOW, not even the simplest minded Obama follower should stand for this. If he wants to do something good go to Haiti and give a good speach.Let the voteing citizens of Mass. do their own thing.
Posted by: earl | January 15, 2010, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
it IS about the relative likeability of the two people.
Posted by: Lisa | Jan 15, 2010 2:57:34 PM
You mean like Barack and Michelle Obama?
Posted by: You Lie! | January 15, 2010, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
Body surfed in Hawaii: check
Called Haiti: check
Picked veges in the WH garden: check
Got in the Republicans’ faces re: HC: check
Obstructed transparency: check
Meddle in State politics: check
Posted by: You Lie! | January 15, 2010, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Meddle in State politics: check
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You really don’t think the Senate of the United States is a federal body?
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Obama hosted nearly 200 parties and social events in 2009. This equates to staging one gala White House event every two days, which is a White House record. Think about the tens of millions of dollars of our tax dollars he has blown through so he and pals can party.
Meantime in 2009, four million Americans lost their jobs as unemployment broke 10 percent, which doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of Americans that have simply given up looking for work.
Meantime in 2009, the number of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan doubled compared to 2008.
And Obama parties. And he golfs. And he hangs out at the beach in Hawaii. And he takes surfing lessons. But most of all he laughs at the American people because his con game actually worked to get him elected.
Obama is a disgrace. He is a disgusting, freeloading fraud. Nothing more.
Posted by: Jackson | January 15, 2010, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
To Youlie:
You know full well what I meant and my analysis is accurate even if you might not like it.
Posted by: Lisa Rowan | January 15, 2010, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
Wow, Obama shows yet again how his priorities line up. Who cares about the economy, the deficit, national security, Haiti. He’s got to get down to MA to save his HC monstrosity.
I love the smell of desperation in the afternoon…smells like victory.
Posted by: Clive | January 15, 2010, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Wow, Obama shows yet again how his priorities line up. Who cares about the economy, the deficit, national security, Haiti. He’s got to get down to MA to save his HC monstrosity.
Clive | Jan 15, 2010 3:27:56 PM
Oh please, Bush was the master of such flyby campaigning (actually, so was Clinton, Bush Sr, and Reagan – I don’t remember farther back). If you think Obama needs to put in 4 extra hours to fix or have any impact on the issues you posted, you’re nuts.
Posted by: jhw539 | January 15, 2010, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
“Think about the tens of millions of dollars of our tax dollars he has blown through so he and pals can party.”
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I don’t think you have even the foggiest idea of why White House events are held . .. .
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Gibbs has no business taking the cheap shots that he does. He’s like a fat kid at the prom with an ugly girl.
Norm Coleman | Jan 15, 2010 2:56:50 PM
Republican hypocrisy in 23 words (with just a hint of misogyny) – best parody I’ve seen in days. Good job!
Posted by: jhw539 | January 15, 2010, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Obama the magic man thinks he’s going to save the day. Think again.
Obama….
The constant lying.
The childish whining.
The staggering arrogance.
The poisonous radicalism.
The dangerous narcissism.
The astounding incompetence.
Obama wants to put as much of the private economy under government control as possible to create his nanny state utopia where he is the boy king.
Let’s continue to stand strong against Obama in every way and get Congress out of the hands of the insane Pelosi and Reid in November.
Thank you Massachusetts for taking a stand against the tyrant Obama. Americans everywhere are behind you.
Posted by: BB | January 15, 2010, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
The healthcare bill was so hideous that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas Eve.
In their effort to strip our freedoms and control our lives on the way to transforming America into a socialist nation, Democrats are grossly underestimating the public’s hatred for this “reform” bill and their backroom, closed-door tactics it is taking to pass it.
Already, Obama begins his second year with the lowest approval ratings of any president in history at this point in his term. It’s going to get much, much worse if he and Democrats continue flipping off the American people and trying to ram this garbage down our throats.
Posted by: Derrick J | January 15, 2010, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
Obama has ordered a National Guard
division up to Boston to pass out emergency KoolAid to Dems who seem
to be battling a tsunami.
Posted by: Sir Toby Belch | January 15, 2010, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
Come on Massachusetts! Don’t be fooled by Obama.
Put the “Kennedy seat” back into the hands of the people by voting for Brown.
Posted by: Beth Roget | January 15, 2010, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
In their effort to strip our freedoms and control our lives on the way to transforming America into a socialist nation,
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Wait a second, the other Obama haters are saying he’s sold the country out to the capitalist banks, the pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies? Are you sure he’s transforming the country into socialism?
You folks better huddle in a corner and get your stories straight.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
Despite the breathy assertions from the Obama Kool Aid Kids here, America is rapidly moving away from The Obama Buffoon and hard left in general.
Conservatives Finish 2009 as No. 1 Ideological Group
Uptick owing largely to more independents calling themselves conservative
PRINCETON, NJ — The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup’s initial reporting: conservatives (40%) outnumbered both moderates (36%) and liberals (21%) across the nation in 2009.
Obama and liberalism are sinking. Thank God.
Posted by: Larreau | January 15, 2010, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
Oh please, Bush was the master of such flyby campaigning (actually, so was Clinton, Bush Sr, and Reagan – I don’t remember farther back). If you think Obama needs to put in 4 extra hours to fix or have any impact on the issues you posted, you’re nuts.
Posted by: jhw539 | Jan 15, 2010 3:30:57 PM
What the heck is he doing all day then? How much time has he spent on HC this week alone – he was in an all-day meeting earlier this week to try to figure out how to buy off the unions. Don’t you think a president has any say about what the government is focused on? Maybe he is working his a#$ off to fix the things I mentioned, but the perception and optics are clearly not showing that to the majority of Americans.
Posted by: Clive | January 15, 2010, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
This’ll be great! Obama can go to Massachusetts to emphasize how he has propped up Wall St. and made absolutely sure that bankers got their record bonuses and banks made record profits while we suffered.
Perfect!
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
Then Obama can ask how Massachusetts enjoyed all the health care negotiations televised on CSPAN so everyone could see what each side is after, just like he promised!!
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
Obama and liberalism are sinking. Thank God.
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Factually, the President is hanging in at about 50% approval ratings – as he has for several months now. He’s not ‘sinking’ at all.
And the Republicans are nobody’s favorite in the polls – despite what word people use to describe their politics, the Republicans are going nowhere.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
Then Obama can explain why unions, GM, Chrysler, Fannie and Freddie are exempt from the TARP tax and why unions are exempt from the health care Cadillac tax while those of us who pay for our own insurance are going to get clobbered!
Yessir, this could be terrific!
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
“Hey, toss me a smoke,” Obama said to Axelrod. “And book us a tee time for Sunday at that private course in Boston. I’ll cut the Coakley thing a little short so we can get nine holes and few beer in while we’re there.”
Posted by: Tom | January 15, 2010, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
From the above article:
“in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 3-to-1 margin.”
so either the party picked the wrong candidate OR this is a referrenum on proposed HCR, NEITHER of which are helped by a vist from POTUS.
What is the President’s speech going to be, since we’ve alienated every republican in both houses of congress, the only hope we have is to hold our collective noses and pull the lever for Coakley.
Working with Republicans is not an option.
Revising HCR is not an option.
If Coakley loses, Obama, Reid, and Pelosi will be lame ducks until voted out of office. It is mind boggling that they have squandered their control of House, Senate and Oval office…
Posted by: N2vip | January 15, 2010, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
Posted by: tierra | Jan 15, 2010 3:51:07 PM
The Tea Party outpolls both Democrats AND Republicans.
Time to face the facts! :-)
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
Two Democrat pollsters discuss the left-wing assaults on the uncannily accurate Scott Rasmussen:
“A recent case in point is what has happened to Scott Rasmussen, an independent pollster we both work with, who has an unchallenged record for both integrity and accuracy. Mr. Rasmussen correctly predicted the 2004 and 2008 presidential races within a percent, and accurately called the vast majority of contested Senate races in 2004 and 2006. His work has sometimes been of concern for Republicans, particularly when they were losing congressional seats in 2004 and 2006.”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | January 15, 2010, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
those of us who pay for our own insurance are going to get clobbered!
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Actually, the costs are going to go down for people who pay their own health insurance under the new reforms.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
“Working with Republicans is not an option.”
It was never an option.
Remember someone saying
“I won”?
I rememember.
Hear that sound?
Those are chickens on their way to the roost.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
The Tea Party outpolls both Democrats AND Republicans.
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There is no Tea Party. So yes, illusion outpolls Democrats and Republicans.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Posted by: tierra | Jan 15, 2010 3:55:41 PM
No it’s not.
You cannot add 50 million people and lower costs.
Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Obama is at only 46 percent approval even in the Democrat-slanted CBS poll. Every poll, from Gallop to Rasmussen to Quinnipac, has him underwater and going deeper and deeper with each passing week.
In fact, Obama has fallen farther and faster than any president and recently set a new record for the lowest approval rating of ANY president entering his second year.
Obama is poison.
Posted by: LLand | January 15, 2010, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
Posted by: tierra | Jan 15, 2010 3:57:07 PM
>laughing<
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
You cannot add 50 million people and lower costs.
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Payments will be going down for those who currently cover their own health insurance.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
More from Democrats Schoen and Caddel:
Liberals have also noted that Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking polls have consistently placed Mr. Obama’s approval numbers around five percentage points lower than other polling outfits throughout the year. This is because Rasmussen surveys likely voters, who are now more Republican in orientation than the overall electorate. (Gallup and other pollsters survey the entire adult population.) On other key issues like health care, Rasmussen’s numbers have been echoed by everyone else.
Mr. Rasmussen, who is avowedly not part of the Beltway crowd in Washington, has been willing to take on issues like ethics and corruption in ways no other pollsters have been able to do. He was also one of the first pollsters to stress people’s real fear of the growing size of government, the size of the deficit, and the concern about spending at a time when these issues were not really on Washington’s radar screen.”
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Posted by: Fascist Hyena | January 15, 2010, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Even in hard-left Chicago, Obama’s hometown, residents have had enough: The Sun Times, which is typically a major cheerleader had an article headlined:
“Excuses Wearing Thin for Obama, Media Pals”
There was a poll attached to the article which asks: “Do you approve of the job President Obama has done so far?”
More than 37,000 people voted and 93 PERCENT said no, they do not approve of Obama.
The tide is turning, folks. Let’s keep the pressure on and take back control of this nation from the Marxists, communists and America-haters that comprise the Obama administration.
Posted by: Moniq | January 15, 2010, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
Every poll, from Gallop to Rasmussen to Quinnipac, has him underwater and going deeper and deeper with each passing week.
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Nonsense. The President has been at about 50% for several months now – there is no ‘deeper and deeper’. That is simply your bias speaking.
Reagan fell to 35% during his first term – Obama is NOWHERE near that.
You can fool yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling anyone else.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
Poor Lisa.
But as an Obama Kool Aid Kid, you should know that you’re heartburn is going to get much, much worse.
The narcissist Obama and his team of socialist Democrats are on their way out.
Posted by: beth | January 15, 2010, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
People should vote for Kennedy up there in Mass. He is the third candidate. The two parties have failed us by destroying the free market, especially with regards to GSE creations. Time to think outside the box folks.
Posted by: Huh | January 15, 2010, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
More from the two honest Democrats:
As pollsters for two Democratic presidents who served before Barack Obama, we view this unprecedented attempt to silence the media and to attack the credibility of unpopular polling as chilling to the free exercise of democracy.
This is more than just inside baseball. As practicing political consultants, both of us have seen that the established parties try to stifle dissent among their political advisers and consultants. The parties go out of their way to try to determine in advance what questions will be asked and what answers will be obtained to reinforce existing party messages. The thing most feared is independence, which is what Mr. Rasmussen brings.
Mr. Gibbs’s comments and the recent attempts by the Democratic left to muzzle Scott Rasmussen reflect a disturbing trend in our politics: a tendency to try to stifle legitimate feedback about political concerns—particularly if the feedback is negative to the incumbent administration.”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | January 15, 2010, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
I’m sure Obama will help Martha Coakley as much as he helped John Corzine in New Jersey.
LOL
Posted by: I'm not a President, but I Play One on TV | January 15, 2010, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
“More from the two honest Democrats:”
There are TWO????
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
“I’m sure Obama will help Martha Coakley as much as he helped John Corzine in New Jersey.”
If Coakley loses, Obama will become Democrat Kryptonite.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
“he level of ignorance on the part of the right wing posters and Limbaugh accolytes is stupefying.
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Take heart Lisa – they’re a bunch of delusional extremists.”
I love how liberals traffic in facts. It warms my heart.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
Tierra is incorrect about the polling trends.
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Nonsense. The President’s approval rating has been steady at about 50% for several months now – there is no continuing decline at all.
Reagan fell to 35% during his first term. Obama is nowhere near that.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
Posted by: drjohn | Jan 15, 2010 4:18:45 PM
Weren’t you the one who claimed the President was going to lose the last election?
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm
Uh, tierra
From CNN
“According to the survey, 48 percent of registered voters say they would vote for the Republican candidate for Congress, with 45 percent saying they’d back the Democrat. The 3-point edge for the GOP is within the poll’s sampling error – but it’s a switch from November, when the Democrats held a 50 to 44 percent advantage….”
I predict nothing. This race could turn into Minnesota, where dead people voted and Frankenstein votes were repeatedly found in trunks of cars. There were more votes than there were voters.
This is the Chicago machine, where
Obama has alredy won the 2012 election as Daley has already counted the votes.
So I predict nothing when criminals control the process.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm
IN a state thats 3-1 democrat..Harry Reids light skinned non-Negro speaking dialect(unless he wants to) president, is going to the state to shore up democratic support LMAO.. can’t spin this… CBS news: Obama approval at 46%
……..here comes the union and acorn thugs
Posted by: another crisis, another photo-op | January 15, 2010, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm
“Nonsense. The President’s approval rating has been steady at about 50% for several months now -”
CBS:
Obama’s Approval Rating Hits New Low: 46 Percent
LOLOLOLOL
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
I just listened to Jake on Hannity.I am starting to think he is the real deal.That is,he is a bonafide journalist.I will definitely watch him Sunday on the morning show.
Posted by: bobmac | January 15, 2010, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
Obama has alredy won the 2012 election as Daley has already counted the votes.
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Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
Copenhagen Olympic bid, Corzine, Copenhagen Climate farce. Well it’s a new at bat Mr. President, let’s see if you can actually hit the ball.
Judging from the absurdity of Gibbs’ comment when Coakley just attended a fundraiser in DC thrown by pharma and insurance lobbyists, it promises to be another stemwinder of Hope and Deception.
Posted by: Aaron | January 15, 2010, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
So Obama is using OUR tax dollars to travel to Mass. and do this. I absolutely object!!! It costs $300,000 every time Air Force One leaves the ground. I’m sick of this president!!!
Posted by: Nae | January 15, 2010, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
also CBS:
“The CBS poll finds that Obama’s approval rating on health care has dipped to 36%.”
Golly, this is fun…
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
No sweat, Dems, you will keep “Teddy’s seat.”
No matter how many illegally registered ACORN voters have to be bussed in–no matter how many reporters have to be shoved to the ground by DNC operatives to end uncomfortable questions.
Yes, We Can!
Posted by: Obamatopia | January 15, 2010, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
“Democrats have a slim 48% to 45% lead when registered voters are asked for which party’s candidate they will vote in the 2010 House elections. Last month, just after the off-year elections, Republicans had a four-point lead.”
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Democrats on the upswing . ..six point change.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
A year into his tenure, a majority of Americans would already vote against Pres. Obama if the ’12 elections were held today, according to a new survey.
The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows 50% say they would probably or definitely vote for someone else. Fully 37% say they would definitely cast a ballot against Obama. Meanwhile, just 39% would vote to re-elect the pres. to a 2nd term, and only 23% say they definitely would do so.
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This says it all
Posted by: another crisis, another photo-op | January 15, 2010, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
“Obama has alredy won the 2012 election”
Posted by: drjohn | Jan 15, 2010 4:25:28 PM
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Finally one of your predictions might come true.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
January 12, 2010
“Slightly more Americans want their member of Congress to vote in favor of healthcare legislation rather than against it, 49% vs. 46% — a first since October. Democrats are widely supportive while a slim majority of independents and most Republicans are opposed.”
Gallup
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
Posted by: bobmac | Jan 15, 2010 4:27:42 PM
Jake is the lone remaining journalist in the mass media and he doesn’t kowtow to Obama and Gibbs.
And unlike Sissy Matthews, Jake doesn’t get tingles from Barack.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
“The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll”
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That says it all.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm
Posted by: tierra | Jan 15, 2010 4:32:11 PM
My bad.
Those are the IL results. There are no free elections in IL.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm
“Slightly more Americans want their member of Congress to vote in favor of healthcare legislation rather than against it, 49% vs. 46%”
These are welfare voters only.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
come tuesday.. the good people of Mass will REJECT Marxism in America
Posted by: another crisis, another photo-op | January 15, 2010, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
It’s funny to hear Coakley ads here in VT claiming that Brown will bow to Wall St bankers and their bonuses.
NO ONE has done more for bankers and bonuses than Barack Obama. Obama wrote bankers’ bonuses into his stimulus package and WE PAID FOR IT.
So it’s blatant lie Coakley makes.
Surprise.
Posted by: drjohn | January 15, 2010, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
“come tuesday.. the good people of Mass will REJECT Marxism in America”
“NO ONE has done more for bankers and bonuses than Barack Obama”
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You Obama haters have got to get your stories straight – is it Marxism or is he in the back pocket of the big capitalist banks? Redistributing the wealth to the poor, or giving it to the capitalists?
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
tierra, 2 things, first..please stop quoting half of the JAN 12 gallup poll info..that is so dishonest..also regarding OBAMA is he “for” the banks or a marxist..well, ask Goldman Saks..the govt forces them to borrow the money, they pay it all back with interest, they still get hit with fines and regulations. This is not an endorsement of Goldman, but this is clearly about the govt gaining control of the free markets..banking, healthcare, autos and coming soon..energy.
Posted by: cindy | January 15, 2010, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
Even though I voted for Obama stupidly in 2008, I am expected for Republican state Sen. Scott Brown to win so that American should stop being Marxism and Socialism by Obama Hussein, Nancy Pelosi and Harry RIGHT NOW.
GO REP. MA STATE SEN. SCOTT BROWN IN 2010.
Posted by: Go away Obama !! | January 15, 2010, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
.. I thought Obama only put women out of big political jobs…
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | January 15, 2010, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Sen. Schumer Calls Brown a ‘far-right tea-bagger’…
—————————————- and YOU Schumer are a low life socialist.
post by: another crisis,another photo-op
Thanks for the shout out for Chuck{The public don’t care about Pork} Shumer,what a disgrace he is.
Posted by: Johnny L | January 15, 2010, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
..well, ask Goldman Saks..the govt forces them to borrow the money, they pay it all back with interest, they still get hit with fines and regulations.
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You’re not arguing with me cindy, you’re arguing with a fellow Obama hater named drjohn who posted . . .
“NO ONE has done more for bankers and bonuses than Barack Obama”
You people ought to get your stories straight.
p.s. – I quote the conclusion of the Gallup study – how THEY chose to portray it
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm
In my town, and on a major road, I saw 12 Scott Brown signs vs. 2 for Coakley over the course of one mile today.
Posted by: s. valenti | January 15, 2010, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
Coakley is a perfect fit with Obama.
Snobby, elitist, condescending, bought and paid for by special interest.
Coakley better hope Brown wins. Maybe she can save her soul rather than
become a part of the corrupt Washington establishment with Obama, Pelosi, Reid.
Posted by: phil | January 15, 2010, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm
Obama is 0-4.
He came home from Copenhagen with nothing–two times.
Struck out in Virginia and New Jersey.
With that ego of his Obama probably blamed everyone but himself.
So he’ll try again in MA.
Take the credit if she wins.
Blame her if she loses.
Posted by: fran | January 15, 2010, 7:56 pm 7:56 pm
fran and phil . . .
It doesn’t matter how you try to paint Obama, everybody knows this administration far outshines the Republicans.
The Repubicans and the right have nothing to offer but smear attacks on the President and negativity.
Everyone sees this.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
Tierra, my point is OBAMA is like the stealthcare bill he spawned..a wolf in sheeps clothing. He is out to fundamentally change this country (HIS WORDS)..that means knocking down the original pillars and creating new structures..he is giving the bankers money with the left hand and handcuffing them with the right..does that make him pro or con wallstreet bankers? I think it just makes him a con man- period.
Posted by: cindy | January 15, 2010, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm
whatsgoingon..haha, yeah, a tough nut to crack..I am an eternal optimist, being the mother of 4 you never give up .
Posted by: cindy | January 15, 2010, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm
Hi tierra,
You are so wonderfully consistent. May you benefit largely from the second spiritual work of mercy!
Posted by: csbd | January 15, 2010, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
It’s as if Coakley is purposely trying to lose. Maybe it’s her personality but she comes across as totally unmotivated.
Understandable.
Who would want to join the Obama, Pelosi, Reid train wreck.
Go along with backdoor sweetheart deals, bribes–follow Obama off of a cliff. Not exactly a career booster.
Posted by: kandy | January 15, 2010, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm
Tonight Coakley said that Curt Schilling was “a big Yankee fan”.Yep,that’s what she said.This must be the work of Karl Rove-only he could get the Democrats to nominate such a complete idiot.She can’t even pretend to show some interest in a local tradition.Is there anybody left that she hasn’t insulted?
Posted by: Nephron | January 15, 2010, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
Let’s hear what Obama thinks about the Cambridge police endorsing Scott Brown.
After he gets all the facts.
Posted by: ollie | January 15, 2010, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
tierra – By “everyone sees this” do you perhaps mean that everyone who is a diehard leftist thinks Obama is doing a good job? The independents dumped him months ago so that’s all he’s left with. 2010 is our year to take back our country.
Posted by: ConservativeWoman | January 15, 2010, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm
tierra – By “everyone sees this” do you perhaps mean that everyone who is a diehard leftist thinks Obama is doing a good job?
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No, I mean everybody in the United States who pays attention to media or the news knows the only thing the Republican right have offered is smear tactics and belligerence. Nothing else.
Posted by: tierra | January 15, 2010, 11:33 pm 11:33 pm
Obama’s disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president’s second year.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 15, 2010, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
Obama’s disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president’s second year.
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Actually it’s about the same as Reagan’s – only Reagan’s approval rating continued to drop til it hit a low of 35% in his first term. Same problem for Reagan – terrible economy.
We’ll see if the current President comes even close to the lows Reagan set. (And as you will remember – even though Reagan hit 35% at the beginning of his 3rd year, he was still able to recover and win re-election. Economy)
Posted by: tierra | January 16, 2010, 12:38 am 12:38 am
Reagan’s approval rating continued to drop til it hit a low of 35% in his first term.
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Reagan spent about one month in 8 years below 40%.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 16, 2010, 1:15 am 1:15 am
The irony of this whole situation is that we, in Massachusetts, already have mandatory health care and in order to support Obamacare would mean that we want to support the “double whammy” of paying for everyone else’s as well. And as payment for our loyal support we would have the privilege of waiting in longer lines, receiving even less care than we get now, and become even more beholden to government officials than we already are. We could also vote for possibly the worst candidate the world has ever seen in Martha Coakley when her opponent is a common sense decent everyday guy that works hard, is a soldier, and humps around shaking hands in the cold while she jets off to Washington to hobknob with the jetset lobbyists. It’s very tempting but…. NO!
Posted by: Dave B | January 16, 2010, 1:38 am 1:38 am
Reagan’s approval rating continued to drop til it hit a low of 35% in his first term.
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Reagan spent about one month in 8 years below 40%.
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Yes, Reagan hit 35% approval rating during his first term. President Obama has come nowhere near that.
Posted by: tierra | January 16, 2010, 1:46 am 1:46 am
I really can’t think of anything worse that Coakley could do than to have Obama show up in Massachusetts right now. This pretty much tells everyone here just how out-of-touch she & her party really is.
Posted by: Tyrone | January 16, 2010, 7:11 am 7:11 am
I am relishing the irony..the powerless tax-paying American people have been watching in horror as first Landrieu, then Nelson, then the unions have auctioned off their support for the stealthcare bill, ..now, Washington is trembling at the power being flexed by the PEOPLE of the great state of Massachusetts! I believe the proverbial “shoe” is firmly on the other foot ..where it belongs!
Posted by: cindy | January 16, 2010, 8:38 am 8:38 am
MA is finally battling the corruption. First Diane Wilkerson, then Sen. James Marzilli, then Paul Galluccio, Barney Frank and now sicking a fork in Coakley. The King of corruption (Obama) is coming to summon his followers, but they are NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! Good job MA. We are proud of you…from Maine. P.S. please let it be know if there is a protest tomorrow.
Posted by: Dagny T. | January 16, 2010, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
MA – A SLEEPING GIANT AWAKES!! THANK YOU!!
Posted by: Manitu | January 16, 2010, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
THE LIB AGENDA IS GOING DOWN IN SMOKE AND ALL THEY CAN DO IS KNOCK REAGAN, BUSH AND PALIN – SAD.
Posted by: Temagami | January 16, 2010, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
THE LIB AGENDA IS GOING DOWN IN SMOKE AND ALL THEY CAN DO IS KNOCK REAGAN, BUSH AND PALIN – SAD.
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That’s because the Republicans have no policies, no ideas and no leader. All they have is attack and smear campaigns.
Posted by: tierra | January 16, 2010, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
I a Republican primarily because I believe in minimal government as most Republicans do. We also believe that only business can create economically productive jobs – not government “make work” jobs which add no value to our economy. The best way to do that is to lower taxes for business, particularly small and medium sized business. Do that and you will see an almost immediate positive response. The liberal agenda either does not understand that concept or thinks the socialist agenda will work better, which is a joke.
By the way, the vast majority of Republicans are not hateful fat cats. I am a truck driver who is fortunate enough to have a really good understanding of economics.
Posted by: Manitu | January 16, 2010, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm
The best way to do that is to lower taxes for business, particularly small and medium sized business.
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That has been done by the current administration.
Posted by: tierra | January 16, 2010, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm
The CURRENT corporate tax CONTINUES to be the next to the highest tax rate in the world. Obama has given MINIMAL TAX INCENTIVES to some businesses, but really small change in the overall economic picture.
Posted by: Manitu | January 16, 2010, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm
Gee tierra,have you seen the Coakley lie about Brown wanting to deny care to rape victims?Talk about smear!
Posted by: Nephron | January 16, 2010, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm
Gee tierra,have you seen the Coakley lie about Brown wanting to deny care to rape victims?
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Two things, 1) if you read the pamphlet it goes on to explain Brown championed an amendment that would have allowed MEDICAL PERSONNEL at hospitals to NOT have to tell rape victims about the availability of the morning after pill.
Sorry, I’m on the rape victims’ side here.
2) If this is a ‘smear’ tactic by the Democrats, it stands out because there have been so few. On the other hand, the attack and smear campaign from the Republicans is so common we think it’s ‘normal’. It is not decent nor normal.
Posted by: tierra | January 16, 2010, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
Scott Brown has assembled a coalition of Democrats, independents, and Republicans, women and men, young and older voters. He’s moderate on some social issues and conservative on fiscal issues. He’s an excellent fit for Massachusetts.
Posted by: Camron Barth | January 17, 2010, 3:09 am 3:09 am
Scott Brown has assembled a coalition of Democrats, independents, and Republicans, women and men, young and older voters. He’s moderate on some social issues and conservative on fiscal issues. He’s an excellent fit for Massachusetts.
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Scott Brown is Cheney and Bush and the Republicans repeated – no thank you.
Posted by: tierra | January 17, 2010, 3:11 am 3:11 am
My thinking is that Obama campaigning for Coakley is going to do as much good as when he campaigned in New Jersey and Virgina.
Yeah, he is a great speaker and a big star (hell, he is the President of the United States) but don’t think for one nanosecond that the independents in Massachusetts don’t see through this. They do.
Posted by: Lone Star Rules | January 17, 2010, 8:26 am 8:26 am
Who is paying for President Obama’s obvious political trip to Massachusetts?
Posted by: MSG | January 17, 2010, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
let’s hope that Obama’s support helps to “Corzine” Coakly!
Posted by: MAFan613 | January 17, 2010, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
No, I mean everybody in the United States who pays attention to media or the news knows the only thing the Republican right have offered is smear tactics and belligerence. Nothing else.
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Here we go again with the Evil Republican Empire and its collection of high priests like Bush/Cheney spewing lies and black magic over the American public to forward their dark-side-of-the-Force agenda.
And, I take it this assumes that the Democratic Party doesn’t use smear tactics? And, maybe they don’t lie?
So what kind of moral base does the left offer America, tierra? Maybe its ‘change we can believe in?’
Posted by: Lone Star Rules | January 18, 2010, 7:00 am 7:00 am
It was an interesting exchange Sunday morning about the President going to Massachusetts to promote Coakley.
There is no question that the consensus among the round table is that the Senate seat in Massachusetts is more a referendum on the Obama administration than on the poorly planned and even more poorly executed campaign. Even those that argued the latter had to acknowledge the National importance of this election.
If the President is ineffective in helping persuade the independents in Massachusetts he will be 4 for 4 on closing the deal. We all have out setbacks, no question – but at what point does his times to bat with no results constitute a streak?
It will be interesting to see what happens in this election. The Unions and the Democratic political machine in Massachusetts are scrambling as fast and furious as they can to get the base out. If they are successful they will take the spot. If not and the polls are right then the Independents will rule the day – just like they did in the National election.
Posted by: Lone Star Rules | January 18, 2010, 7:16 am 7:16 am
If Coakley loses, I wonder they the president will blame BUSH again like the way they always do.
LMAO!!
Posted by: Aaron | January 18, 2010, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm