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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 6 Comments
The Senate health care bill, which Martha Coakley supports, contains a massive tax on the middle class which will hit union members particularly hard. The tax on so-called “Cadillac” health plans is opposed by organized labor, and could be a big reason why union rank-and-file...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 13 Comments
The HillBuzz guys warned that the trolls would come out in full force if it looked like Scott Brown was getting close in the polls: We are writing to you as moderate Democrats who fought for Hillary Clinton all through 2007-2008, then became Democrats for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2010 33 Comments
The Massachusetts special election continues to amaze. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley has taken a swipe at Fenway Park fans: Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive. “As opposed to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2010 4 Comments
Martha Coakley attended a lobbyist fundraiser in Washington, D.C. last night, at which she received bundled donations from dozens of health care lobbyists and Washington insiders. Coakley, when questioned about the fundraiser, said that it originally was planned as a unity event: “We planned an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2010 13 Comments
This account of Martha Coakley’s reaction to Scott Brown’s rise in the polls paints Coakley as a mostly clueless politician (emphasis mine): On a private conference call with DNC chair Tim Kaine and top Dem donors this afternoon, Dem Senate candidate Martha Coakley acknowledged that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2010 3 Comments
Rasmussen has released the results of its new polling, and it is a shocker: The Massachusetts’ special U.S. Senate election has gotten tighter, but the general dynamics remain the same. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Massachusetts Attorney...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2010 12 Comments
A campaign theme of Martha Coakley, including television ads which started running yesterday, attacks Scott Brown for supposedly sponsoring a bill to deny medical care to rape victims. In fact, Brown merely proposed a religious exemption which would exempt those with a religious belief against...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2010 5 Comments
Scott Brown’s Money Bomb yesterday raised over $1.3 million in 24 hours, mostly in small donations. Consistent with his theme that this is the People’s seat, not the Kennedy or Democrats’ seat, Brown sought support from the people who feel shut out of the political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2010 0 Comments
Tonight at 7 p.m. is a televised debate in the Massachusetts Senate special election. All three candidates will be participating, since Martha Coakley refuses to debate Scott Brown one-on-one, despite calls from the Boston Globe and others. SEIU and other unions are organizing “visibility” for...

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...

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...

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 be...

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 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
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...

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...
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