A new poll in the Massachusetts Senate race shows a shift in favor of the Republican Party and a potential disaster for President Barack Obama and his Democratic political agenda in Tuesday's special election.
The Suffolk University survey released late Thursday showed Scott Brown, a Republican state senator, with 50 percent of the vote in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in this overwhelmingly Democratic state.
Democrat Martha Coakley had 46 percent. That was a statistical tie since it was within the poll's 4.4 percentage point margin of error, but far different from a 15-point lead the Massachusetts attorney general enjoyed in a Boston Globe survey released over the weekend.
The Suffolk poll also confirmed a fundamental shift in voter attitudes telegraphed in recent automated polls that Democrats had dismissed as unscientific and the product of GOP-leaning organizations.
And it signaled a possible death knell for the 60-vote Democratic supermajority the president has been relying upon to stop Republican filibusters in the Senate and pass not only his health care overhaul, but the rest of his legislative agenda heading into this fall's mid-term elections.
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Just when it looked like we had lost the battle against a government takeover of our health care system, hope has sprung forth in Massachusetts (of all places). Republican Scott Brown is running an underdog campaign to become the deciding vote to stop the Obama administration's plans dead in their tracks.
ReplyDeleteThe latest polls show Scott with all the momentum and a real chance to become Massachusetts' next Senator. A win by him in Tuesday's election would deal a serious blow to the liberal Washington agenda we've seen advancing over the past year.
And thanks to the wonders of technology, we can play a part in the historic upset from here in South Carolina. Help Scott finish strong from your own home - by registering on his "Call from Home" website to help the campaign get out the vote:
http://www.brownforussenate.com/call-from-home-registration
Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. It was never intended to be ALL things to ALL people. Taking just one hour of your time to make a few phone calls to Massachusetts voters can help send a serious message to Washington liberals. It's time they are reminded exactly what is - and isn't - the purview of the federal government.
I, too, thought that the possible election of Scott Brown would be a God-send and that the health bill would be defeated. However, I read in today's paper that, should Brown win the election, it would take two weeks to certify. In whatever time the Democrats had before Brown took office, they would attempt to put the health bill on the fast track to come up for a vote while the interim Senator filling Kennedy's seat is still there; he has said that he would vote for the bill. As you suggested, though, the election of Scott Brown would jeopardize many other Obama initiatives and would impact the fall elections.
ReplyDeleteWe must not count our chickens...
ReplyDeleteAmerica is finally waking up! I'm sure the democrats will do anything they can at this point to cheat and steal the election. Even if they do, just the fact that is was this close (in Massachusetts of all places) allows me to hold out hope that we can take our country back without bloodshed.
ReplyDeleteWashington Times headline is that the dumbocrats are prepared to pass the health care bill with only 51 votes by using some shannigans I'm sure. They said this was what they planned all along.
ReplyDeleteThe Democrats will steal this race by fraudulent voters,fraudulent absentee votes and manipulation of the electronic voting machines. The Liberal Leftists in control now have murdered people to stay in control, ya think they are above another Al Franken debacle? Win at all costs, right ALinsky-ites?
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't have a chance. Anyone with any knowledge of politics knows that polls these late are released to get the vote out. Basically scare the democrats who were planning on staying home on election day because they thought it was a done deal. Now they will all go out and vote because its close and the highly democratic state will elect Coakley. Stupid R's shot themselves in the foot, they should have just shut up.
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