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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Lord Undies on February 14, 2010, 08:49:41 AM
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jan-17-10 08:34 PM
Original message
Are We Really Worried About Massachusetts?
It is nearing absurdity to think that Massachusetts is on the verge of handing Ted Kennedy's seat to the republicans. It is almost insulting to me, in North Carolina that I am being told to make calls for Democratic support in Massachusetts! This is a media circus. It is a manufactured horse race. With this happening in an electoral vacuum, the full force of the national media is able to focus on and affect the story.
The repukes are pushing the story for it to appear close. They know they can't win it. They aren't going to try to steal it. They are creating this story as their frame. For the next weeks (probably longer) we will hear from the RW-spewers that "The goppers made it close in a place it shouldn't have been close, proof Obama is a failure!". Whether it will actually be close is yet to be seen. But, that is really all the repukes are looking for to claim victory. And, like most of their 'victories', the are devoid of any real gains.
But, hey. The national media wants to make the election a referendum on Democrats and Obama? Fine, we can play that game. When Coakley is declared winner early in the evening, we will know that the American People are still standing with the Democratic Party.
The last Senate race in Massachusetts (granted with an incumbent) (2008):
Insert maps of past election results
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7492359
(I never tire of re-reading this oh-so-smug thread - - knowing the REAL outcome)
tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jan-17-10 08:41 PM
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10. I'll eat my hat if Mass hands it to a puke.
His hat is probably one of those greasy looking knit things Hollywood thinks all the "homeless" wear.
Meldread (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jan-17-10 08:56 PM
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19. I think the best answer to give is: "We just don't know."
I am inclined to agree with you; no matter what the fight is going to be uphill for Brown. To throw out a prediction, I'm going to say Coakley wins by 5 to 10 points, and if by some miracle Brown wins it's going to be by 1 point or less - enough to tie it up in the courts for months. -snip-
I haven't heard much about those court cases lately. How are they going? Do we think the election results will be thrown out? It SOOOOOO close, you know.
:p
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jan-17-10 08:36 PM
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2. Obama seems to be concerned - he went out of his way during a hectic time to campaign there
tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jan-17-10 08:38 PM
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4. Sure, he is concerned with attaching himself to this
media-created national story. He is on film standing with the winner and is the winner.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Ah tekisui, the Local Fool In Hiding primitive. And I bet he didn't even eat his hat. I've got an old hat he can eat, and I'll film it so others can watch.
What a :loser:
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I wonder what a hat tastes like ? And did the primitive find any good recipes in the DU cooking and baking forum ? :lmao:
This primitive wins the thread -
NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-17-10 09:30 PM
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30. Well, here's a election result map for Massachusetts we DON'T want to see:
Romney 2002:
(who posts a Romney city-by-city election map that is almost exactly the same as Scott Brown's victory, city-by-city)