Friday, January 15, 2010
'Then every Democrat in the country is at risk'
I give up. … If the poll showing Brown up by 4 points is accurate, notice two things: 1.) Martha isn’t getting the gender bounce she got in the primary. 2.) The opposition to the national health-care plan is strong, even in Massachusetts. … No wonder the DNC yesterday was trumpeting the BMG poll showing Martha with an 8-point lead. But as Nate Silver said last week of polls: “Any one of them could be right.”
A Republican friend, who somehow got on a Dem call list in Rhode Island, said he got a pro-Coakley call via his 401 area-code phone:
I give up. … If the poll showing Brown up by 4 points is accurate, notice two things: 1.) Martha isn’t getting the gender bounce she got in the primary. 2.) The opposition to the national health-care plan is strong, even in Massachusetts. … No wonder the DNC yesterday was trumpeting the BMG poll showing Martha with an 8-point lead. But as Nate Silver said last week of polls: “Any one of them could be right.”
A Republican friend, who somehow got on a Dem call list in Rhode Island, said he got a pro-Coakley call via his 401 area-code phone:
That call smacked of complete desperation. I told them I was a Republican, and by the way lived out of state. To me this is huge. The Dems are on the run big time. If a Democrat in the bluest of blue states, in fact a single-party state like North Korea, running for the beatified Kennedy's seat, is at risk, then every Democrat in the country is at risk. Good bye healthcare reform. What do you think?I think Dems are in big trouble. It's not just about health care. It's about the economy. It's about the spending. It's about multi-thousand-page congressional bills. In Massachusetts, add in the antics of the one-party hackerama (House speaker getting indicted, senators stuffing money in bras or crashing cars or groping women, etc.). …
