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October 13th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
You know, Lynne… I think you have something here. I want to go vomit now…
October 13th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Once again, the Republicans using the Bogeyman to scare the White folks into locking their women up…PuLEASE!!!!!…How horrible and SO 50’s…How passe’..Get a grip.
October 14th, 2006 at 12:08 am
I would hope that race would not be a factor, though I’m sure it is with some voters. If Healey is exploiting that, shame on her and she doesn’t deserve to be Governor. However, your post brings something else about Patrick to mind that concerns many undecided voters. You said “Patrick’s whole campaign is about opportunity, hope, change, and possibilities.”
What about issues? Is his campaign about any issues? If he wins, and I think he will, he will have to actually govern, and I think there are a lot of people, myself included, who are concerned that we don’t really know what type of Governor he will be. The four words you mentioned that describe his campaign are all good things, but Patrick has not made it clear (at least not to me) how any of this translates into actual policy/legislation.
October 14th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Go read his website, watch the debates, and you’ll see more specifics on the issues than I remmember any candidate publishing for a long time.
It’s CW (common wisdom) that you don’t go specific because your opponant can tear it apart…Deval went specific early and often. He has great position papers.
October 14th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Lynne, you are correct that Deval Patrick has defined positions in great detail on his website, but, at least to date, the message has been muted in the debates, probably because more sensational topics are thrown in the mix.
Aaron is searching for some beef in the campaign, and you have directed him to the right market. But what about the many other “Aarons” out there, who will never get to see the website? Many of those, particularly the elderly who vote, will not have access to the internet. However, they do read papers, listen to the radio and watch TV. And if you look at the Lowell Sun as a source, you will see front page pictures of Healey in some ceremonial event 5 times for each mention of Patrick in a positive story.
I expect the best way to overcome that deficiency, is to steer the public debates to issues of substance, and make the print media follow up with reports. It is obvious Healey is doing whatever she can to avoid that type of discussion, and she is being quite successful so far.
The best hope may be the people’s ability to see through her strategy, but it would help if the next debate could be focussed on substance and not fear.
October 14th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Anecdotally, I think this crap-peddling of Healey’s is backfiring in a big way. Her whole strategy has really turned a lot of people off. At least, that’s what I’ve been seeing. Now, I’ve been IDing about 5-7 Patrick supporters to every definite Not Patrick; though we’re talkig to Unenrolled and Dem voters, there’s not that many registered Republicans to begin with. I saw this before the primary too. Just saying’!
The next debate, I’m SURE this will come up. And yes, the debates have been lame places to get the plans and positions of the candidates, particularly Patrick’s, because their formats and the priorities of the questioners leaves a LOT to be desired. Healey’s got the easy Republican mantras - lower taxes! brown people evil! balance those terrible Democrats in the legislature!
Trouble is, everyone watched as Mitt became pretty much irrelevant after alienating the legislature instead of trying to work with it, and his vetoes were always overriden. Not to mention, people are looking back and agreeing with most of those overrides to begin with. People are tired of being sold the same bill of goods and getting fewer jobs, tighter economies, worse schools, lagging public universities, etc. That bogeyman isn’t scaring people as it once was. They also remember that when we had higher taxes, we had a better economy…nationally AND locally.
October 15th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
To suggest that Healey feels that “Brown people” are evil is just as ignorant and baseless as it is to suggest that Patrick has an affinity for rapists and cop-killers.