Massachusetts results thread--COAKLEY CONCEDES

by: Chris Bowers

Tue Jan 19, 2010 at 20:00


Martha Coakley has conceded and the race has been called.  Scott Brown wins.

I will update with final results later tonight.  Results will stop updating for a couple hours though.  Its over.

Massachusetts special election results

(1,497 of 2168 precincts reporting - 68.9%)

Coakley (D) Brown (R) Kennedy (L)
46.3% 52.7% 1.0%

Raw vote margin: Brown +95,221

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Woot! It's tied (0.00 / 0)


John McCain won't insure children
we need a mathematician (0.00 / 0)
Can it really be 0% to 0% even if it is 0 votes to 0 votes?

New Jersey politics at Blue Jersey.
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Insufficient sample size. (0.00 / 0)

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blumenthal posting some bad news at pollster.com (0.00 / 0)
higer turnout in conservative city wards, not enough in liberal ones... and tied in a townthat Coakley should have won...

Rasmussen DID do a poll... today!  Here are the prelimary results (being treated like an exit poll):

   * Among those who decided how they would vote in the past few days, Coakley has a slight edge, 47% to 41%.
   * Coakley also has a big advantage among those who made up their mind more than a month ago.
   * Seventy-six percent (76%) of voters for Brown said they were voting for him rather than against Coakley.
   * Sixty-six percent (66%) of Coakley voters said they were voting for her rather than against Brown.
   * 22% of Democrats voted for Brown. That is generally consistent with pre-election polling.

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!

For conservatives (4.00 / 1)
I think that hearing the race is close excited already enthusiastic teabaggers with the possible "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to see a Republican Senator from Massachusetts in the same way that some people were hugely enthusiastic in 2008 for the opportunity to say they cast a historic vote for the first black man in the White House.

Things You Don't Talk About in Polite Company: Religion, Politics, the Occasional Intersection of Both
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Who done it? (4.00 / 2)
A weak candidate, coasting in the last month, working in a vacuum of leadership with no clear party platform (of change), what do you expect? If Coakley loses it will be on Obama's (Emanuel's) watch. Ridiculous isn't it?
Ugh.... (4.00 / 1)
Un-freaking-believable...      
Weren't you feeling hopeful in the (0.00 / 0)
previous thread?
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Not anymore unfortunately (0.00 / 0)
I wanna cry right now....

I guess we'll have to see what happens with HCR... it would be extremely sad if the death of HCR's champion eventually caused the end of HCR for a generation.    

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re: future of hcr (0.00 / 0)
more baucus bipartisanship with grassley and enzi
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Senate Bill (4.00 / 4)
Hoyer is open to the Senate Bill option... the question is if the House trusts the senate enough to bring it up later.    

Filibuster needs to go... now.

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Results order (0.00 / 0)
Should we expect to see the usual trend of rural areas reporting before urban ones? Most of the results so far are from low density areas (well, low density for Massachusetts).  
Wasserman form Cook Political Report.... (4.00 / 2)
...unofficially calling the race for Brown.

I'm sorry, Teddy...

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!

mike... (4.00 / 1)
wherever he is, i suspect teddy is smiling (laughing even). teddy knew that politics is just a game...you win some and you lose some. if you need to smile watch the daily show from last night. and count your blessings.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpoin...

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Makes my skin crawl (4.00 / 4)
A piece of shit like Brown is in Teddy's seat.     Its a sad day for America.    
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Coakley concedes.... (4.00 / 4)
Thanks for nothing Martha!

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!
WORST.CAMPAIGN.EVER (4.00 / 1)
What is it with MA candidates and taking a long break during which they give their opponent all the time in the world to define them and establish a strong campaign...

Kerry did it after the primaries in 2004, Dukakis in 1988, and Coakley now.  She should have been on TV the moment the primaries were over.

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Franken: health care bill will pass "one way or the other" (0.00 / 0)
If Brown wins Tuesday's election, Democrats would no longer have a filibuster-proof majority. But Franken said that could be overcome by having the House vote on the health care bill senators passed last month, which would make a Senate vote on a conference bill unnecessary.

http://minnesota.publicradio.o...

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The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
Franken is stomping for the House to pass tha crappy bill? (0.00 / 0)
Doesn't he have any Plan B? Or doesn't he want to be reelected?
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Franken has 5 more years at least .. (4.00 / 1)
luckily the damn teabagger only has 2
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Do you have a plan B? Or a wish list? (0.00 / 0)


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The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
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Plan B: Going fully nuclear. Atomize the filibuster. (4.00 / 1)
Obama should have some very serious meetings with the Senators, and make it crystal clear that most of them are toast if they don't improve the crappy bill now. The sellout crap, which doesn't deliver anything to large parts of the population, simply doesn't fly. If the Dems don't want to be killed at the end of the year, they have to come up with something that appeals to the voters. And they have to do that with 59, more probably 57, or even less votes. There's no time for false emotions about traditions, leverage, or rethuglican outcries now, the filibuster has to go. It's the only bold move that will enable the Senate to deliver anything meaningful now!
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Problem isn't what THEY should do ... (0.00 / 0)
... it's what WE should do!

Full Court Press!  http://www.openleft.com/showDi...
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Get your FCP running... (4.00 / 1)
...and apply a lot of pressure! What else?
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Final Cut Pro? (0.00 / 0)


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The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
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Full Court Press (0.00 / 0)
... see link with signature

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that's my plan, thank you ... (4.00 / 2)
and I'm doing what I can.  I don't consider it the ONLY good plan, which is why I'm consistently pushing others to move from outrage to action, even if it's something different.

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Better than the status quo. (0.00 / 0)

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Full Court Press has a plan A (0.00 / 0)
Any House member who votes for the Senata bill as-is automatically deserves to be primaried.  I don't care whether they kiss every progressive baby in the country.

I don't know if the Full Court Press can do much in 2010.  But I'm writing it down so we'll remember in 2012.

Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand.  I'm sure we'll hear all sorts of howls of outrage, but outrage is cheap.  Primary them, build progressive infrastructure, hit them again.

Time to insist on what we believe in:

WPA-style jobs program
Medicare for all
Repeal the Hyde amendment, oppose Nelson/Stupak
Repeal DOMA, DADT
U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan

Any member of the House who doesn't agree to the above becomes a primary target.  We don't care if it's smart politics.  We don't care if anyone gets elected.  It's right, it's just, it reflects the Democratic rank-and-file, that's it.

Full Court Press!  http://www.openleft.com/showDi...

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Ha! (4.00 / 1)
Leave it to the new kid to proclaim that the Democratic party can pass anything after tonight.

The Obama Presidency is pretty much over.

It's too late for him to switch strategies and become a combative partisan.  It isn't in him anyway.  If he can't win with 60 seats, he can't win, period.

Another one term wonder, then we are delivered back to the care of the feudal lords.  Eight years of Romney/Palin, maybe.  

It was fun while it lasted.  

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I don't think it's that fun (4.00 / 2)
at least so far, and it's only gonna get worse.
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My guess (4.00 / 3)
is that HCR is very close to dead.  I think Pelosi is going to find it hard to get 218 votes.

We have lost a Senate Seat in Massachusetts.  My guess is that we are going to see House members looking at this result and thinking screw HCR, I have to save myself.

It is hard, maybe impossible, to overstate this loss.

Yep, that'll get 'em re-elected. (4.00 / 4)

  The voters put them in there to do nothing.

  Good they're getting the hint!  

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn

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wow (4.00 / 1)
As per NYT banner...

BREAKING NEWS 9:21 PM ET
Scott Brown Wins U.S. Senate Seat in Massachusetts, A.P. Reports

http://www.nytimes.com//

I'm sure Carville's happy (4.00 / 7)

 Tim Kaine's performance as DNC Chair has been very, very, different from Howard Dean's.

 Which suits the DC Dems just fine.  

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn

Who ran Coakley's campaign? .. (4.00 / 2)
do we know? .. Shrum? .. Someone else? ... and rest assured that person is never getting another job running a campaign .. ever
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Quite the contrary (4.00 / 1)

 I expect that person to get a plum job in the DNC next week. If not a position in Obama's cabinet.  

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn
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A guy named Kevin Conroy (0.00 / 0)
Not the voice of the animated Batman and not the biotech CIO, which makes Googling him a bit annoying.  Worked under Coakley as head of the Massachusetts AG's Business and Labor Bureau.

Things You Don't Talk About in Polite Company: Religion, Politics, the Occasional Intersection of Both
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"head of the Massachusetts AG's Business and Labor Bureau"? (4.00 / 1)
And that qualified him as a campaign strategist? Who came up with that idea? Coakley???
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Am I the only one who is surprised about the missing movement in the vote? (0.00 / 0)
The numbers were only moving between 46-47 vs 53-52. Isn't that a bit unusual regarding the vastly different results in the precincts? Or am I overly suspicious?
Coackley sucked, and so did Brown (4.00 / 1)
Why would anybody who follows open left want either of these lousy politicians in the senate? I mean, there was "strategic" support for Coakley, but that was just moronic.

When will people learn to only support candidates who represent them?

I guess (0.00 / 0)
smoking coke was more important to her!?

Extraordinary progressive star in the making
Anyone asked the voters why they voted the way they did (4.00 / 1)
as well as the breakdown of liberals, conservatives, moderates, etc.?

It'd be nice if we got some real data on where the voters rather than rely on Washington talking heads to tell us.

The Deed Is Done (4.00 / 2)
and I feel fine.

Obama has a clear choice to make: he's at the same decision-point that Clinton was at in '94. Fortunately, he can make the right choice and self-correct before the midterms. Unfortunately, as someone noted upstream, taking on elite power does not appear to be in his character.

What's next? A brazen Turning Point that sets a new course? Or three more years of DC moving ever rightward, trying the same old solutions that have already failed over and over again...interspersed with congressional investigations into Obama's citizenship.

Both parties are failing the country in a very public fashion, and as the stimulus runs out, and empty promises of reform leave the system unchanged, eventually their inaction is going to catch up with them-it may catch up with all of us-in a very unforgiving manner.

We live in interesting times.


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