Maybe that’s what caused the anxiety in his voice last night. He saw Scott Brown signs tied to fences. Not in hands like the scores of Warren sign holders.
Where are the fans from two years ago? What the hell is happening here? He’s a U.S. Senator and he can’t turn out the bodies for a simple pre-debate sign holding. Tim Murray could do this blind folded.
Where are the headquarters overflowing with volunteers. What about the canvassing and phone calls? What happened? What’s changed in two years? Why can’t Scott get it going?
So what can you do? Tell your less informed friends that the real story is Scott uses and disrespects women. The story he tells is highly shaded and somewhat bizarre. He has family members and friends contradicting important facts. He pimped out his mother’s failures to get elected and sell a book for big big money.
And he will vote for Mitch McConnell for majority leader so when it’s time to man-up for MA, when ole Mitch puts his arm on Scott’s shoulder and asks for that much needed vote that will essentially fuck Massachusetts, you can bet Scott will do exactly as asked. The rest of the time Scott can take safe votes against McConnell.
Not to mention Grover Norquist who will remind Scott of his vow to vote against a bill that cuts taxes for everyone but slightly raises it for incomes of one million or more.
The extreme results of the no tax pledge to only benefit the very wealthy is not an anti-tax policy.
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18 Comments . Leave a comment below.our Warren sign holders at TD Bank. They also had anti-Obama signs with Hitler mustaches. I wasn’t there, but I would have liked to find a Scott Brown sign and joined them.
I see them around the Merrimack Valley. They always come to random political events.
As to the debate standout I would estimate there were over 600 union people alone. There were readily apparent by their T-shirts and signs. All of us (on both sides) got to enjoy the cigar smoke of some of them.
We are working hard. Teachers, however, don’t tend to smoke cigars.
Thanks for the info on the Larouchies. I’ll pass it on. Some of our sign holders wondered if they should try to engage them in conversation. Now they’ll know not to bother.
There was one guy on the Norwood side of the University Ave./Canton Street intersection holding a Brown sign around noontime. He may or may not have been the owner of the house down the street that had a hand-made plywood sign out front that said “Romney and Ryan Vote Scott Brown [sic]“…. How can Ryan vote Scott Brown?
in a macro-pathetic way.
Five guys and a woman holding Brown signs in Wrentham on Saturday afternoon. His hometown, on a weekend, and they scratched up a half-dozen people.
Last time, while there were certainly a lot of people out there for Scott Brown, I always had a suspicion that it had less to do with some kind of super organization he had going on, and more to do with the fact that he was well able to tap into a national anger that was going on at that moment — and channeled into his campaign.
This time around, he doesn’t (and can’t) have all the same kind of national help, he’s flunked the Tea Party — who thought he was one of them, but have found he’s really just one of Wall St. — and can’t rely on the masses coming along because they’re in the middle of a ragefest over “death panels” or some other BS talking point Newt Gingrich is floating around.
Such ragefests have thankfully petered out, and Obama’s demonstrated a better ability to handle things so that another one is unlikely to begin.
To top it all off, Brown can’t have his Wall St. friends hire Karl Rove to do one big, giant character assassination in the form of 15+ million in negative ads, not without violating a central promise of Brown’s campaign. (While I still think it’s likely he’ll violate the People’s Pledge, I’m starting to think it’s going to be too late — and too desperate — to matter.)
So, all told, things are looking good for us. The power of incumbency is all Brown really has left, and he’s going to have to survive the albatross that is Mitt Romney and the GOP in order to use it.
… the Brown rally participants here in Berkshire County were mostly from the Albany, NY Tea Party groups. I remember the TV crews having trouble finding a MA voter in the bunch of them standing on the Pittsfield rotary a few days before the election. FWIW, Brown got creamed in this part of the state and is likely to lose it 2 to 1 again.
I’m hoping that your part of the state can help cancel out my part of the state!
I live in Newton. Coakley took Newton 2 to 1, almost exactly. This year Warren signs outnumber Brown here by at least 4 to 1. We have almost 85,000 people in Newton.
In 2008 Obama won in a huge majority of the Commonwealth’s 351 cities and towns. In 2010 Brown turned huge swaths of that map red. But Coakley ran very strong in Western Mass. and near here. Over 60% in Newton, Brookline, Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, Arlington, Lexington, Lincoln, Concord. Very near 60% in Belmont and Acton.
If we can maintain (or surpass) that, and be a little more competitive in the North Shore, South Shore, Cape, and Central Mass. areas, we’ll be OK.
Lawn signs always seem to overstate Republican support.
So 2 to 1 in Newton isn’t that good. We need stronger performance in the Blue areas as well as the more swingy parts of the state.
I would expect Warren to win here something like 3 to 1. There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for her candidacy and we don’t have a lot of the voters who would vote for Obama but have a problem with Warren. I’ve run into very few people in Newton who buy into the bipartisan fetish and many who are sick of Republican obstruction in Washington.
Kbusch, I agree about the lawn signs as you get away from here. I was driving in Central Mass. a couple of weeks ago and there were big Brown signs everywhere. I would expect him to win in most of those towns but not by 9 to 1. I would say the reverse might be true in a place like Newton, but most people I know who have Republican signs out just don’t care what anyone thinks. They like annoying liberals.
Coakley won 2 to 1 in Boston, but it would have been 3 to 1 if more Democratic voters showed up. Turnout was 43% in Boston, under 50% in Brookline, under 55% in Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown.
Turnout was over 70% in a number of big Brown towns. Wrentham, of course, but also Norfolk, Medfield, Millis, Sherborn, Dover, Hanover (which he won almost 3-1), Hingham, Cohasset, Hopkinton, Topsfield, Boxford, Bolton. Most the towns where he won had higher turnout than the 54% statewide average. The only towns Coakley carried with 70% turnout or better were Needham and Sudbury (very narrow win).
This year, with the President on the ballot, and better candidate, and a solid ground game we can do much better.
…when you have one of the GOP’s field people and Brown’s own staffers confronting a Warren visibility, you know that the State GOP / Brown campaign don’t have a clue.
…Brown’s been pushing the panic button out here in Western Mass generally.
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