Stop counting those chickens.
Obama and the Democrats have not conceded the Massachussetts senate race, as some have suggested. Quite the opposite: This morning, Obama’s national Democratic activist group Organizing for America sent out a mass email to supporters saying they will fight tooth and nail to hang on to “Ted Kennedy’s seat”:
OFA is going all out in Massachusetts — we’re sending organizers, knocking on doors, and making phone calls by the tens of thousands to make sure that folks know how to participate.
AdvertisementIt’s a huge effort, it’s expensive, and time is short. But with the outcome uncertain and the stakes sky high, I don’t want to wake up the morning after the election thinking that we could have done something more. If you feel the same way, please donate $5 or more to help us make Martha Coakley the next senator from Massachusetts…
This is in sharp contrast to some reports yesterday claiming that the Democrats are already making plans for how to handle the inevitable defeat in Massachussetts.
Of course, the email is also full of the usual truth-stretching hyperbole intended to rile up the liberal base:
The polls are tightening as right-wing money floods the state, and one even shows the race to be a dead heat between progressive champion Martha Coakley and her extreme opponent. The truth is, special elections often have very low turnout and are notoriously unpredictable.
The stakes are just too high to leave Martha’s victory to chance.
If we lose, Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat will be in the hands of someone who opposes everything he fought for.
This of course is laughable — Scott Brown would actually be among the most liberal Republicans in the Senate. But hey, facts play no role in this modern era of do-or-die politics.
Republicans are beginning to think Massachussetts is in the bag. Democrats are betting the rent money that the seat can be saved.
Who ever imagined an election Armageddon would happen so soon into Obama’s presidency?
I am reporting from the belly of the beast, having lived here all my life (except for 24 years in the US Foreign Service.
In my life, I have never witnessed an election with this much intensity. Watching TV here is like watching Godzilla v. Mothra with strings of three, four, even five political ads in each station break. Brown has clusters (sometimes with 20 to 30 people showing up at strategic street intersections and overpasses waving signs. Every online political column in the Boston Globe is followed by scores of conservative comments.
Matha Coakley has turned into a gaffe-machine that even puts Biden to shame. Yesterday, she attempted to call Curt Schilling (he supports Brown) a “Yankee fan” during a talk radio interview. A few weeks back she, in exasperation, ranted at a reporter (on tape) that ‘what was (she) supposed to do? Go out to Fenway and freeze?’ This is while Scott Brown was doing exactly that in order to meet the public. In the most widely-watched tv debate on Monday she claimed the US should leave Afghanistan ‘because there are no terrorists there.’ On Wednesday, she followed that up by flying down to DC to collect buckets of money from lobbyists from Big Pharma. It would be difficult to make this stuff up.
Even so, Brown faces an uphill fight here, despite some comforting polls. Labor, ACORN, and the other usual suspects are being bused into the Bay State to provide the foot soldiers for a very formidable army this Tuesday. Coakley has brought out a huge arsenal of attack ads that, though filled with distortions, form a constant barrage on radio and tv.
It is way too early to celebrate here. It is not enough to say that coming this close is itself a victory. With some more effort, Brown can win this thing.
Whether or not Brown wins, the neo-communist Democrats have to realize that what they want to force on Americans won’t be accepted. Maybe they won’t realize it right now, but they will soon.
“Stop counting those chickens.”
Really good advice. I very much hope Brown wins but let’s remember that the election hasn’t happened yet and the Dems have had a well entrenched political machine in place for many years in Massachusetts they know that a loss here would be a catastrophe. However it would be wonderful if the next American Revolution began in the state that sparked the first but it’s a real long shot still.
Sham-Wow-bama!
I have no doubt the Dems are going all out for Coakley–breaking the law. If O is showing up in MA tomorrow, then they’ll want to make damned sure he doesn’t get egg on his face again. It’s imperative to them that he doesn’t.
MA voters have to show up in force and fight for Brown with their last breath.
Yes, this is a real nail bitter. But the Dems will win because they are so good at cheating.
This is a National election. I do not live in Mass, but I contributed to Brown’s campaign because his vote will decide my, and my family’s, future. All politics is no longer local. The liberal Dems have too much control over our lives.
How right you are to assert that this is not in the bag, not at all. It is a long shot at best.
He has too pull out at least a 10% margin to win–it would take that sort of margin to beat the Democrats vote fraud. Even if he does that, it would take real fear of outrage from the MA electorate from the democrat machine in order to avoid a really outrageous, in your face freud. I bet the Democrats manage to steal it. how they will be emboldened if they pull that one off. We are getting a taste right now of how November will play out.
If the GOP were smart, they would be preparing to use this as a showcase of democrat election fraud as this is most likely the outcome.
I hope I am wrong, but people should not count their chicken before they are hatched.
The Democrats will stop at nothing.
“Who ever imagined an election Armageddon would happen so soon into Obama’s presidency?”
There are those of us praying hard this year for a replay of 1994.
So , using your methodology… and accepting it as an any near accurate cross analysis. Your own data says Brown is about the most conservative we could get out of Mass, while we could do far better than a Scuzzaflozie in NY on a statewide basis.
Now have you accounted and adjusted for an ideological center of .. oh I don know.. say Mass as a whole(Senator) vrs NY23? No you have not, which means you are just blowing crap out of your pie hole now does it not?
And if you do not have it between your ears to consider that. I have to consider one of two things.
Either your whole data set is BS because you lack enough intellect to go there. Or you are intentionally misleading for whatever your purpose is.
Stop counting those chickens…Republicans are beginning to think Massachussetts is in the bag. Democrats are betting the rent money that the seat can be saved.
Good advice. I hope it is heeded but I’m not sure it will be. IMO Obama is, so far, a terrible President, but I grudgingly give him credit for putting his prestige on the line and coming to MA.
Here is a prime example of Republican savvy. Because when undecided voters seek corroboration of serious accusations against the opposing candidate, nothing wins them over more effectively than calling them scum suckers.
This is still the same GOP that induced a center-right nation to replace them with a far-left President and Congress.
RE #11/Fantom:
[...] Either your whole data set is BS because you lack enough intellect to go there. Or you are intentionally misleading for whatever your purpose is. [...]
Fanty, let’s cut to the chase – will Brown beat Coakley, situation that will show to the dems that they’re in an irreversibly political slippage, or will Coakley win?
All signs show that Brown will win, situation with the attendant consequences for Dems -
Now stop croaking and creep back to your ACORN office -
I find it fascinating that some folks are latching onto Scott Brown’s relative liberalism as proof that the GOP should become more moderate. What I take from it is that the supposed Right-wing radicals of the TEA Party movement are willing to put their backing behind relatively liberal Republican candidates when those candidates are demonstrably and significantly more conservative than their Democratic opponents. I see the TEA Party movement rallying conservatives to back conservative challengers in GOP primaries, and then consenting to back whatever candidates emerge victorious in those primaries.
Expect Chicago electioneering to come on strong – that is “vote early and vote often even if you are dead.” Expect fraud.
the biggest gun in this campaign is near silent operationg undercover in pokistan hunting son of laden. that’s right two term parallel president john fitzgerald kerry-kennedy serving concurrently as senior senator from massachusetts. let’s hope former president bill clinton-kennedy makes a big campaign splash. it’s the kiss of death for any candidate.
With respect to counting chickens, it was the Democrats who were so sure that they had this one in the bag that their candidate went on a six-day vacation in the middle of a foreshortened campaign. The surge in Brown’s standing is a result of his supporters refusing to buy into the Democrats’ triumphalism.
Guys, i am here – on the ground and anecdotal evidence is huge , i live in watertown about 5 miles west of Boston – today i drove around and counted dozens of Brown signs and bumper stickers, and i swear NOT ONE Coakley sign or sticker – this is a middle income area – upper working class – as a matter of fact people are stealing Brown signs from in front of houses – ( because they have no more ) and putting them in busier areas , i saw a house today in newton that had a lawn sign inside 2 – 5 gallon buckets filled with concrete – so no one could steal it –
keep in mind the unenrolled here is 50 % of the electorate – Brown is polling 65-70 % against 23 % w/ unenrolled – Huge , 10 % of absentees have voted – Brown 58 % Joakley 41 or so – Brown will win – the areas outside Boston are very on the up and up voting wise -
keep the faith Brown will crush this elitist
snob – The Peoples Republic is back in play – BHO is destroying the Dem party – and i love it – this will be the second shot haerd round the world -
#10 wrote: “There are those of us praying hard this year for a replay of 1994.”
Although often asked to do so, God doesn’t take sides in American Politics.
At any rate, there are those who are praying for different outcomes. We’ll see who God listens to.
Brown has already scored an immense tactical victory. Win or lose, he has forced the Dems to expend a tremendous amount of treasure and resources on the bluest seat in the Senate, something they did not plan on having to do.They are in disarray and scared sh!tless. Obama fell for the oldest trick in the book, the old Briar Patch routine (don’t come to Mass). They now realise NO seat is “safe”. You listening now, Russ Feingold???
20. You mean Brown has already won an immense strategic victory. Forcing the enemy to expend vast resources to secure something they thought safe is a strategic victory; a tactical victory requires a win on Tuesday.
Stop counting those chickens.
No way, Eey-ore. I’m countin’ mine. In fact, I have 572 chickens.
No one is saying Scott Brown won.
No one is presuming he will.
But things look encouraging and we all still have work we can do for the campaign. So let’s do it! MAKE CALLS FOR SCOTT BROWN!!!
We can beat down the Democrat machine!
Obambi will be preaching to his Kool Aid-addled choir, while Brown operatives work the margins and get the great undecided middle energized. As far as I’m concerned, Brown has already won, making the Dhims expend patronage and treasure on a “safe” seat. The more money they use trying to prop up Jokeley, the less they have nationwide.
Obambi is engaged in a wasted trip to Boston; the hard Left has no use for him here and those he fooled in ’08 have abandoned him. Two damaged pols will be on the podium…
Close is not good enough in this one. Brown HAS TO win, else the Dem aristocrats will be emboldened to continue their arrogant practices. If they win, they’ll go home smirking, especially if they were able to STEAL it.
I can’t STAND the idea of them smirking about such a “victory”!
It will be like NY-23 last November: Brown will lose.
I never thought I’d be saying this. But I can keep quiet no longer. Supporters for Coakley, I believe,
were told three weeks ago verbally (no emails or memos will confirm this) that if the race was within
three percentage points as determined by our own polls, Acorn ground soldiers with phony identification
known as “Election Watch” AARP members would be transported in from Minnesota to “see to it
that Martha Coakley made up at least 10,000 votes in key voting places in one week’s time.” I cannot tolerate
“cheating” any longer.”
I personally believe that Franken stole the last election.
And that Martha Coakley’s team (without her direction or knowledge) are out to steal another one.
If I have the nerve and or conscience to push “submit”, my career in politics may be changed forever.
Not Armageddon, but a shot across the bow.
This election doesn’t matter. Franken proved that the Jury box is corrupt, the ballot box is rigged. The soap box is owned by the Socialists. All that leaves is the cartridge box. Get ready.
The time will be after the Usurper suspends election in September of this year. At that point any American that loves the Constitution will have to take up arms to defend it. Get ready.
Dump Rush Limbaugh!!! Thanks to Rushs comments about Hatti Blacks and Hispanics are coming out to vote this Tuesday!!! This election wont be even close!!!
If you were in the hospital and were told you had cancer, would you shop for your coffin or would you fight the disease? I don’t understand why some derive so much pleasure from being negative. Life is difficult, there are bad times. But fight for your life, it’s precious and we need your help not your ready defeatism.
i read quotes from seiu about “saving ted kennedy’s seat”. if my memory is correct mr. brown statd that it was not “kennedy’s seat” nor “the democrats seat” but the peoples seat. i hope the voters of massachusetts remember that as they go to the polls, they “owe” the democrats nothing. their duty as voters is to consider and vote fot the best interests of themselves and their friends and neighbours, the people of massachusetts, not to “save ted kennedy’s seat for the democrats.” with whatever empty suit they may put up to fill it.
#27, betty from boston:
Is there ANY possible way for us to confirm what you’re saying? If there were no e-mails or memos, how did you find out about it? Are you in the verbal loop for such an operation?
You apparently did have the nerve and conscience to push “submit.” If you are willing to endanger your career by sharing that info, are you willing to maximize the effect of that info getting out by having it reported in blogs and hopefully whatever few larger media outlets might be willing to report it? If so, it will have to be confirmable in some way.
arthooley,
If I understand you right, that would be 532 chickens, no? In the upcoming event, I hope the Dems lose by at least 10% Tuesday.
Even if the Coakley group “cheat” with the Acorn ground soldiers, phoney identification AARP “Election Watch” members bused in from Minnesota to “see that Coakley makes up 10,000 votes in key voting places” is not going to be enough to beat Mr. Brown. The Massachusetts Democrats are against the Obamanation Health Care Bill ripoff and are enraged at their representation in the Senate and House of Representatives. So their monolithic vote for any Democrat is falling off a cliff and turning to Scott Brown. The Progressive machine is going to have to check their premise on neck and neck polls. Go Brown! Tarbender from Maine
I would compare Scott Brown to John Paul Jones. Jones faced spuerior odds when his ship fought HMS Serapis and Jones’ ship, the Bonhomme Richard, was literally being blown to pieces by the British. All looked lost for the Americans to everyone involved, EXCEPT JOHN PAUL JONES. When asked to surrender by the British Captain, Jones gave his immortal reply, “Surrender? Sir, I have not yet begun to fight.” And, as every school kid knows, Jones went on to win the battle.
Well kids, it’s time to stare down the powerful democratic opposition. We have to fight the battle forced on us by the labor unions, the democratic machine, ACORN, and every other corrupt liberal democratic hack that’s trying to take this country away from us. It’s time to utter those immortal words, “Sir, I have not yet begun to fight,” and go on to victory. It’s up to the people of Massachusetts now and, hopefully, they will live up to their fine tradition of standing up to tyrants, even if today’s tyrants mostly live in far-off Washington, DC. Good luck to you, Mr. Brown, and whatever the outcome, we at least have met the enemy and are standing tall.
Those most likely to respond to that OFA email are Obama’s most faithful supporters, ones ripe for making a last-minute, gut-feeling contribution. Even if Obama + his advisors and the DNC happen to anticipate a Brown victory, this is good way to get some more cash and keep the troops busy. Calculating, though not evil.
Its great to see the right energized and exited again after a year of bitterness and anger. However, if you remember the left was happy when the new president took office, but he quickly went to the center and some on left were not happy about that. I imagine the right will be disappointed with Brown as well as he quickly moves to the center if/when he is elected and his reality sets in. But hey, part of the enjoyment is the thrill of possible victory, not the reality of success….Good Luck to MA Republicans !!
In about 56 hours we will all see won’t we? It seems that Scott Brown has tremendous support and lots of money going to his efforts and that Martha Coakley is one blunder after another. I for one hope Scott pulls this off.
Any bus that pulls into a polling place should be looked upon by poll officials closely and undergo very close verification of the identities of those getting off such buses. This goes especially if those voters are smelly and unkept and possibly intoxicated! Another indicator should be their manner of speech, it seems people from Massachusetts have a distinct accent!
When I was in the Navy after awhile you develop a kind of generic accent, but not those from New York or especially Boston Mass!
“13. misanthropicus:”
Actually, I was replying to the content of the hyperlink in Zombies article. And likely too harshly worded at that. My apologies Zombo, use as needed.
Now as to me being acorn or even anything close to a moderate, much less a leftwindbag.. THAT is funny.
Just got my letter from Scott Brown thanking me for my contribution.. and asking for more of course. How’s about you?
Ribbet.
Thank goodness this is an election and not a caucus, if it were the latter, Coakley would win.
Slightly off-topic, I never realized how much of a stranglehold unions have over the Dem party. Obama has turned out to be far worse than I ever imagined, the level of cronyism and favoritism is unbelievable. I am not anti-union but I don’t think they are “more equal” than the rest of Americans. Obama is so bad that Jimmy Carter ought to get really p!ssed off when people compare the two.
Back to the MA election–go Scott, go! Your country needs you in the Senate.
If it clear that this election was stolen from Scott, we Americans need to RIOT!
If they can do it in Iran, we can do it here in the breadbasket of liberty.
If the demonrats have to fight in this way just to keep one seat in one of their colonies (aka Massachusetts), what will happen in November in the free states ?
I will know that conservatism is truly on the ascendency when we can enjoy observing obvious groundswell support for conservative principles and candidates without someone feeling the necessity to lecture us along the lines of not counting our chickens too soon.
It never occurred to me to count my chickens. I grew up on a farm with thousands of baby chicks going through every spring. Any idiot knows you don’t count chickens before they hatch.
I’m not counting chickens before they hatch. I AM enjoying the dickens out of the un-ending scene of coakley croaking, publicly and often. Relax already. If Brown loses this eleciton, it won’t be because anybody counted chickens too soon. It’ll be because the dems stole the election again. I’m getting really sick and tired of people who refuse to enjoy conservative successes, like children from abused families who always think they’re going to be hit.
I’m not from an abused family. I have never allowed anyone to hit me, and I’m not changing my practices now. But I WILL enjoy and anticipate victory for Brown on Tuesday. We gave money from Minnesota for his campaign. If he loses, we press on.
My central-MA suburb retains a rural flavor. Perhaps a Republican Congressional district has been gerrymandered away out here.
After a walk in a state forest today, I took a 20+ mile drive to count campaign signs. Up to half the frontage I passed was forest or brush; the rest was single-family houses.
I counted one Coakley sign and fifteen Brown signs. So it’s Brown by 15:1…but in 20 miles of Brown country only 15 people are publicly expressing support with signs.
Fwiw.
39. Fantom wrote:
Just got my letter from Scott Brown thanking me for my contribution.. and asking for more of course. How’s about you?
Peter writes: I wanted to contribute, but apparently it’s against the law for Federal Contractors to contribute to his campaign. (I assume the same is true for Coakley, but I didn’t try to make a contribution to her to find out.) I guess it has something to do with the future senator being part of the group who decides on government contracts and such.
The only way now for Obama-Biden-Coakley team to win in MA elections is through massive fraud. Will America become more like Iran and Venesuela? I certainly hope not.
But I predict if Brown loses, a lot of people will become pretty upset, and the Dems will pay dearly in the 2010 Congressional elections.
@ #10 No lets make this a another 1776/1789.
Win or lose this election, Scott Brown has joined the rising tide of attractive, young, vital center-right politicians. Much better than the toady physical misfits the Democrats usually elect. And to my knowledge, he is not corrupt like Coakley with her special treatment of dishonest politicians and secret financing from big medicine.
Let’s see if the good people of Massachusetts still have some working brain cells left. I trust they do.
In related developments, it is reported that Alec Baldwin is threatening to move to Cuba if Brown wins.
My son lives in Saugus and he told me all he sees are Brown signs and bumper stickers. He said his numbskull union-robot cousin is even “thinking” of voting for Brown. of course, all they think of his their outrageous benefits that Obama is going to hit, but still…
I am watching this vote closely from California. What happens in MA affects the rest of the nation. I pray Brown wins!!
Signed,
A Republican fighting an uphill battle from the other unbalanced Liberal State of California