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January 21st, 2010 at 11:59 am
What’s a tital wave? Is it anything like a tiDal wave?
Keep telling yourself this has no meaning. Eventually you might believe it. Mass voters were always willing to take a look at a Republican candidate if he/she was the right candidate. In this case he was.
We’ve voted forRepublican Governor’s in the past so it’s not all that crazy. And now that we appear to be over our dysfunctional relationship with the Kennedy family we are free to do as we wish. It’s like when you realize you’re completely over a bad relationship. It’s simply liberating.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:35 pm
That “ceiling” is a little like comparing apples and oranges, a special election in January to the Presidential election in November. But, with the loss in the order of 100K votes, a strong Democrat turnout could have swung the election. It may be better to lose now and learn some lessons from it, rather than be complacent into November and lose a lot more.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I have not crunched the numbers yet and while I agree there was not massive increase in Republican turnout, what Brown did do is appeal to the Unenrolled…aka Independent voter.
Unenrolled voters make up a majority of voters in the state and have the biggest clout when they are pissed.
Brown was able to get his message to the unenrolled voter and Coakley thought the seat was hers after the primary.
Not very hard here. Brown worked his tail off and got his message out, Coakley did not.
Democrats now have 2 years to wake up because the Kennedy seat is up for re-election in 2012.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:38 pm
nextyear: this to me is the silver lining. It sure as hell got ME more motivated!
January 21st, 2010 at 2:20 pm
This election was so far and away different from past elections because it was in January on a Snowy cold Day and yet over 2 million people for whatever reason exercised their right to vote.
I looked at the numbers from the last Special Election and the only thing you can positively say is this Senate race had more people interested and voting then the race to replace Marty Meehen.
Lowell this year: Coakley 9,537 In 2007: Tsongas 7,305
Brown 10,548 Ogonowski 5,473
Lawrence this year: Coakley: 6,449 In 2007: Tsongas 4,000
Brown 3,331 Ogonowski 1,575
Dracut this year: Coakley 3,166 In 2007: Tsongas 2,314
Brown 7,658 Ogonowski 4,665
So play with whatever numbers you would like but the bottom line is that for whatever reason people cared, they voted and it is up to all candidates in the future no matter what seat in what race for which party they represent, they need to make people care enough in their message to turn out the vote.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:46 pm
..And to Lynne and nextyear, that sort of tempers the optimism for Republican candidates on the ballot this fall who are reading into Tuesday night’s result. If the theory is that the Dems were asleep at the switch, that was all the wake-up call needed. The complacency pendulum could swing back, so to speak..
January 21st, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Complacency pendulum, lol, I like that.
January 21st, 2010 at 8:31 pm
You folks are whistling past the graveyard.
Coakley was the canary in the mineshaft.
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:50 am
If Martha was the canary in the mine, she was in respiratory distress before she went in. She was a poor canidate from the get go. If Brown goes along with the right wing,obstructionist wack jobs in DC,or even allows that perception,he should rent, not buy.
January 26th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I know this is about to be lost to another page, but let me just make this prediction.
If you are among those that think the Scott Brown victory had to do with a combination of factors, one of which was big money coming in at the last minute to flood the airwaves…just wait til the 2010 Congressional races now that corporations have been let loose by the Supreme Court!
You think major pharma and insurance companies (and others) are going to stand by and allow reform to happen in DC? No Way in Hell!
They will have congressmen and women bought and paid for at the expense of democracy and the average voter!