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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2010 12 Comments

Photos from Scott Brown events Saturday, January 16 (photos to be added throughout the day)Dennis, MA sign rallyBrown in Hyannis (much more here)Not from today, but worth posting, SEIU members for BrownBrown in Plymouth[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGKH7qjnF5w]Brown in Quincy (more here)(400 people in crowd)--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2010 14 Comments

Martha Coakley flopping gaffe of the day, as reported by the Boston Herald:Shipping giant UPS isn’t amused by a Democratic Party campaign pamphlet attacking Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown that plays off the company’s slogan “What can Brown do for you?”Atlanta-based United Parcel Service, known...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2010 4 Comments

In prior posts, I noted that Brown was winning, and then had won, the online war. The statistics reflecting Brown's online momentum also were the subject of a post recently at WordStream Internet Marketing Blog. In just the past two days, the numbers have become...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2010 14 Comments

The Cambridge, Massachusetts police officers association wants to clear up the record. Just because Martha Coakley's husband is a retired Cambridge police officer, a fact which her campaign frequently mentions, they do not want you to think that they actually support Coakley.No, the Cambridge police...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2010 5 Comments

Martha Coakley has hammered Scott Brown relentlessly with the claim that Brown wanted to permit hospitals to deny emergency contraception to rape victims. As Coakley surely knows, that claim is false.I examined the language of Brown's proposed amendment in a prior post. That amendment provided...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2010 5 Comments

This is my fourth and final report of my observations at the Scott Brown campaign headquarters. Once again, I visited the Needham headquarters, the same place as for my first two reports.Here's the bottom line: The place is on political fire.In my first visit on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2010 12 Comments

Martha Coakley's slap-shots fired at Fenway Park fans and devout Catholics, her vacation in the middle of a special election, her refusal to debate one-on-one, her D.C. lobbyist fundraiser, and her denial that she witnessed the subsequent assault on a reporter, all have people bewildered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 9 Comments

A just released poll by Suffolk University shows Scott Brown leading by 4 points, what the pollster calls a "Brown Out":Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 2 Comments

You may have wondered why Mrs. Scott Brown is not on the campaign trail with him, and does not appear in his videos or at his speeches.If you live in Massachusetts, you may know why, but you may not.Mrs. Scott Brown is Gail Huff, a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 22 Comments

Obama's campaign organization has released a 2-minute video in support of Martha Coakley (via Politico).The video is very strange. It is way too long for a television commercial, although the Coakley campaign could edit it. If Obama really wanted to put himself on the line...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 4 Comments

On the heels of Martha Coakley's well-publicized comment criticizing Scott Brown for shaking hands with people in the cold outside Fenway Park, Brown has rolled out a new TV ad featuring him doing nothing but shaking hands with people on the street in the cold.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yu_af4KbdE]Coakley...

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 McCain/Palin...

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 standing outside...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2010 62 Comments

A hot story today is how a reporter for The Weekly Standard was shoved to the ground by a Martha Coakley campaign worker when the reporter tried to ask Coakley why she was attending a fundraiser with lobbyists.But another part of the story, as pointed...

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 event after...

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 GOPer...

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