DU History Lesson 01-18-10: "Are We Really Worried About Massachusetts?"

[Lord Undies]

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?   Updated at 3:10 PM
   
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):

Followed by BlueBlueBlue 2008 election graphics.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7492359

I bookmarked this one yesterday.  I had a feeling it would be fun today.

So righteous....so smug....so defeated.....so WRONG!




Me so happy!







 

[Mike220]

I would like to ask the dummy how it feels to be wrong, but I figured they know no other feeling.

[Chris]

Competition for Top DUmmy of 2010 is fierce.  They're beating each other up to be first in line.

[Duke Nukum]

I vote to sticky this.

[The Village Idiot]

I would like to ask the dummy how it feels to be wrong, but I figured they know no other feeling.

 

[USA4ME]

Oh tekisui, let's arrange to meet somewhere in Asheville so I can read this post of yours back to you.  Com'n, it'll be fun.   

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[Karin]

tekisui  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-17-10 08:41 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. I'll eat my hat if Mass hands it to a puke. 
 

UTUSN  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-17-10 09:26 PM
Response to Original message
29. O.K., so you give me HOPE!1 Thank you!1 n/t

[DumbAss Tanker]

tekisui  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-17-10 08:41 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. I'll eat my hat if Mass hands it to a puke.

 

You want fries with that?

 

[djones520]

Someone with an account there needs to check his posting and see if he's said anything yet.

[Celtic Rose]

 
Maybe some ketchup 

You want fries with that?

 

[Tucker]

Competition for Top DUmmy of 2010 is fierce.  They're beating each other up to be first in line.

It doesn't look like the incumbent will have a strong showing.

[Oceander]

Someone with an account there needs to check his posting and see if he's said anything yet.

Has anyone ever started up a user account "farm" there - y'know, someone who patiently starts up a harem of, say, 10 to 15 accounts, and carefully nurtures them and grows them, making slow, patient, careful posts, until they get to the point where they can become useful, at which point they might be worth some money?

[Lord Undies]

Has anyone ever started up a user account "farm" there - y'know, someone who patiently starts up a harem of, say, 10 to 15 accounts, and carefully nurtures them and grows them, making slow, patient, careful posts, until they get to the point where they can become useful, at which point they might be worth some money?

Molemart.com?

[GOBUCKS]

It doesn't look like the incumbent will have a strong showing.

I have no doubt that Pam will soon regain her lunatic form. Remember, she doesn't advertise it, but she's on chemo.

[BlueStateSaint]

I have no doubt that Pam will soon regain her lunatic form. Remember, she doesn't advertise it, but she's on chemo.

Really?!?!?!?!?  I didn't know that.

[AllosaursRus]

 

You want fries with that?

 

Well, at least a little salt & pepper!

[AllosaursRus]

Has anyone ever started up a user account "farm" there - y'know, someone who patiently starts up a harem of, say, 10 to 15 accounts, and carefully nurtures them and grows them, making slow, patient, careful posts, until they get to the point where they can become useful, at which point they might be worth some money?

Ya know, I've had a thought about an account we could all use. Kinda like a community trust. As long as everyone agreed to mind there P's & Q's, we could actually become quite prominent.

Watcha think?

[Tucker]

Ya know, I've had a thought about an account we could all use. Kinda like a community trust. As long as everyone agreed to mind there P's & Q's, we could actually become quite prominent.

Watcha think?

And the person who gets it TS'd has to start the next one.

[franksolich]

Hmmm.

I found this gem.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7487148

Atman  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-17-10 08:45 AM
#11 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; PEDRO PICASSO
Response to Reply #3
 
8. You are right about one thing...

You are not in Massachusetts. The GOTV effort going on now is almost unprecedented. The activists and campaign workers are out in force in a huge way. No one is sitting on their hands. All the whining and hand-wringing is coming from people far away (like Virginia) who think they have some sort of inside track. The people on the ground in MA are working hard, despite your concern to the contrary, and Coakley will ultimately prevail. Remember, MSNBC, NBC and the other mega-corporate media outlets have a stake in making this a referendum on Obama, which it is not. Don't let their self-serving bullshit fool you.

Pedro Picasso strikes out again.  Too bad for Pedro.

[The Village Idiot]

They are all struck out years and years ago

[Duke Nukum]

Hmmm.

I found this gem.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7487148

Pedro Picasso strikes out again.  Too bad for Pedro.

Ha!  Like how the only two news outlets he can name are MSNBC and NBC, which are kind of like two of the same thing, at least as far as the news department goes.

[franksolich]

Ha!  Like how the only two news outlets he can name are MSNBC and NBC, which are kind of like two of the same thing, at least as far as the news department goes.

What I found hilarious about it was that those primitives "from Virginia" (and other places), who weren't on the ground in Massachusetts, were right, while Pedro Picasso, who was right next door, was wrong.

[AllosaursRus]

What I found hilarious about it was that those primitives "from Virginia" (and other places), who weren't on the ground in Massachusetts, were right, while Pedro Picasso, who was right next door, was wrong.

Once again 'ol Pedro shows what a complete asshole, without a grasp on reality, he really is!!!!111

[BlueStateSaint]

What I found hilarious about it was that those primitives "from Virginia" (and other places), who weren't on the ground in Massachusetts, were right, while Pedro Picasso, who was right next door, was wrong.

Building on what AR said, I wonder . . . if ol' Pedro is really a deep mole on the order of Andy Card or John Sununu or someone like that . . . ?

Or, and the most likely explanation (using Occam's Razor), is that Pedro suffers from a terminal case of sympathetic cranial rectalitis.