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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...

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 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 1 Comment
The audacity of Martha Coakley taking a vacation for six days just three weeks before the Massachusetts special Senate election has had me searching for an historical political equivalent. Mike Dukakis riding on the tank? Nah. That imagery showed Dukakis to be someone who cared...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2010 2 Comments
Martha Coakley refuses to debate Scott Brown one-on-one. Coakley is the front-runner with better name recognition, so she has much to lose from debating Brown one-on-one. But Coakley has even more to lose from not having the courage to take on Brown. Put together with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2010 11 Comments
Martha Coakley just returned from six days on vacation in the middle of a special election. Ever since the December 8 primary, Coakley has attempted to portray an air of inevitability, by seeming not to care about Scott Brown’s candidacy, refusing to debate him one-on-one,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2010 1 Comment
As a follow up to my post the other day, Martha Coakley’s Secret Bank Account, here is a good description of how Coakley maneuvered around campaign finance laws, as reported in Boston Magazine: A candidate can’t use state funds for a federal campaign, but that’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2010 5 Comments
Martha Coakley’s campaign is touting the fact that it has raised $5.2 million so far, almost four times as much as Scott Brown, including $1 million in the past six weeks (compared to $700k for Brown). Coakley, however, spent heavily in the primary, and started...
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