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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2010 6 Comments
Want to know how misinformed and bewildered the American feminist movement is on the state of the Democratic Party? Check out this post at HuffPo by blogger Amy Siskind, calling on Martha Coakley to change her position on backing the health care bill since the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2010 22 Comments
In case you have not heard, the Democrats have come up with a plan to nullify temporarily the Massachusetts voters in the Senate special election on January 19, if Scott Brown wins. As reported by the Boston Herald, interim Senator Paul Kirk is on record...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2010 4 Comments
I posted earlier today about negative push polling in Massachusetts against Scott Brown, including questions purporting to link Brown to “hate groups.” The group making the calls possibly (and I stress possibly) was McGuire Research (see my prior post for details) which still has not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2010 8 Comments
In just the latest sign that the Coakley campaign is in trouble, MoveOn.Org has launched an urgent fundraising campaign on her behalf (bold in original): The Republicans are pulling out all the stops in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat, because if they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2010 1 Comment
I posted some time ago about a study by an MIT health economist, Jonathan Gruber, on the supposed cost savings of the Senate health bill, Are Our Liberties Worth Only $200-$500?. Even to my non-mathematical mind, Gruber’s analysis was shoddy: Gruber has based his projections...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2010 14 Comments
See update to this post: Is SEIU Behind Anti-Brown Push Polling? ————————————————I received this e-mail from a Massachusetts resident and businesswoman (and I verified her identity through publicly available sources), regarding a phone call she received last night: I got an odd call last night...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2010 1 Comment
No surprise here. When the Massachusetts legislature passed a law, at the request of a dying Ted Kennedy, to allow the Governor to appoint an interim successor, a key justification was that the interim appointee not only would not run for office but also would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2010 6 Comments
What is wrong with this picture: We have the most liberal Congress and President ever, who are pushing an equally liberal agenda, yet the country is more conservative than in recent history. Gallup has released its 1992-2009 survey of political self-identification, and the result is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2010 2 Comments
I’m pleased that my post, Earthquake Rumblings in MA, is ranked the most influential U.S. Politics post at Technorati. The election on January 19 is more important than you can imagine, and it no longer is under the radar. Based on the Rasmussen poll, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2010 5 Comments
In my prior post, “What’s Martha Afraid Of?”, I predicted that Martha Coakley’s duck and hide campaign strategy would begin to backfire, and would become the equivalent of the Ben & Jerry’s “What’s the doughboy afraid of?” campaign. Sure enough, Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2010 4 Comments
Martha Coakley is the union candidate in the Massachusetts Senate special election against Scott Brown. During the primaries, SEIU spent $214,000 on advertising in support of Coakley, and is expected to throw more money into the race in the final two weeks. SEIU is organizing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2010 15 Comments
Dear Jane, You and I do not have many political agreements, but one thing we agree upon is that the Senate health care bill must be defeated. I have my reasons, and you have yours. One thing we agree upon is that the mandate is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2010 4 Comments
Chris Cillizza at The Fix blog at the The Washington Post writes the following in reaction to the Rasmussen poll of the Masschusetts Senate race: Coakley’s fundraising abilities also ensures that she will be able to overwhelm Brown in the final weeks of the campaign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2010 1 Comment
Headline Sunday: Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen Headline today: Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight Nothing to see here, move along. Update – New headline this afternoon, U.S. suspends Guantanamo prisoner transfer to Yemen(emphasis mine): “While we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2010 15 Comments
Rasmussen is the first major polling organization to poll the Massachusetts Senate special election, and the “pre-released” poll numbers show Martha Coakley (D) with just a 9% lead over Scott Brown (R), which would be consistent with other polls. This post will be updated with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2010 11 Comments
Tonight, Rasmussen will be polling the Massachusetts Senate special election. Unfortunately, some prominent right-wing commentators and almost the entire Republican establishment have decided to sit this one out unless and until there was a reputable public poll showing that Scott Brown was within striking distance...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2010 14 Comments
Numerous regions around the world are experiences record cold temperatures. While reporting the fact of record cold, the mainstream media is largely silent in attempting to draw any conclusions as to “climate change.” To the extent the mainstream media does draw conclusions, it is the...
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