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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2010 17 Comments

Scott Brown's Money Bomb is today. The special election is a week from tomorrow.If you've read this blog, you know that there is a chance of victory for Brown if he keeps surging. But he needs money to do that. A Scott Brown victory may...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2010 16 Comments

Democrats of Massachusetts, listen up. The special election is all but over. Martha Coakley has won.No need to show up to vote, since DownWithTyranny has pronounced that all polls showing the race tightening are worthless:Many of the pollsters and pundits predicting a Republican win in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2010 14 Comments

Obama wins New Hampshire primary in a landslide!That was the prediction of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center and most other pollsters prior to the primary. In fact, Hillary Clinton won the primary, causing much hand wringing. This shows us that we need to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2010 9 Comments

This should motivate you. This sort of attitude has motivated me for years. From an erudite "reality-based" pundit at Blue Mass:Let's just be obvious about this: Scott Brown has absolutely no business being in the same area code as Martha Coakley. Not to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2010 20 Comments

This is a follow up to my earlier report on my day at Scott Brown's campaign headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts, in the western suburbs of Boston.My expectations were fairly low. I figured I'd stay an hour or so, talk to some people, get a better...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2010 13 Comments

Also see my update to this post, Brown HQ Report #2---------------------------------------------This is a quick update on my day so far at Scott Brown headquarters. I'll give a more complete report later.Things are totally crazy here. The phones are ringing off the hooks. The phone bank...

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 bill...

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 that...

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 returned...

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 win,...

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 that presented...

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 9 Comments

I previously posted that Martha Coakley's campaign appeared to be overstating its financial strength by hyping its primary fundraising numbers, almost all of which was spent during the primary. Coakley has not released her post-primary fundraising numbers.Coakley has been surprisingly quiet for someone who supposedly...

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 that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2010 2 Comments

A week ago I noted that Scott Brown was winning the online race. In the last week, particularly after the Rasmussen poll, Brown has run away with the online race.On Twitter, Brown is dominant. As of this morning, @ScottBrownMA has 3913 followers versus 1997 for...

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 Brown's online...

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