Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Blame: ‘There's plenty of it to go around’
Nate Silver blows away the blame-it-on-Martha meme. Issues counted. …
But I think Nate’s underestimating the “Massachusetts-specific special contingencies.” There’s a lot of anger out there. Deval and the Beacon Hill types are quite aware of it. Michael lists all the pent-up “Massachusetts-specific special contingencies.” … John Ellis has more, and he points to this state voting-trend graphic. I’m reminded of the old voting-trend maps in the two-party Illinois – the ones showing stark voting differences between blue cities and red suburban/downstate towns. …
Jon sifts through the blame-game ‘if only’ scenarios and concludes Dems may have shot themselves in the foot before the primary:
Nate Silver blows away the blame-it-on-Martha meme. Issues counted. …
But I think Nate’s underestimating the “Massachusetts-specific special contingencies.” There’s a lot of anger out there. Deval and the Beacon Hill types are quite aware of it. Michael lists all the pent-up “Massachusetts-specific special contingencies.” … John Ellis has more, and he points to this state voting-trend graphic. I’m reminded of the old voting-trend maps in the two-party Illinois – the ones showing stark voting differences between blue cities and red suburban/downstate towns. …
Jon sifts through the blame-game ‘if only’ scenarios and concludes Dems may have shot themselves in the foot before the primary:
Rep. Steve Lynch might have made a much better candidate, and he wanted to run, but AFL-CIO chief Bobby Haynes and his fellow rocket scientists told him to take a hike because he - get this - wanted to actually see the details of ObamaCare before pledging allegiance to it. Nah, unacceptable.
