120 thoughts on “MA-Sen: Results Thread Afterparty”

  1. Pass health care reform, and then campaign hard.

    It’s actually good timing for the SOTU, as President Obama will be able to change the narrative.  I don’t think the Democrats have been wrong on policy (though that’s not for SSP to discuss;) I think that the problem has been process and messaging.  We need to pass HCR as to actually have something on which we can campaign, and we need to go from there.

    We can accept 2010 as an inevitable fall like 1994, looking at opinion polls and forecasting the downfall of the Democratic Party.  Or, we can go out there and change it.  The policies for which Democrats have been fighting for years are finally within reach, and now is the time to get out there and convince the American people that we’re still right.

    Massachusetts is a blow to all this.  It means that some sort of filibuster reform has to be the next priority; or at least there has to be some way for 59% of the Senate to get its will.  The point is that now is the time for action:  You all know better than most that November 2, 2008 was only part of a victory, and there is no reason for us to allow January 19, 2010 to be anything more than a small setback.  We just have to actually make it happen.

  2. The crowing from the Right and the anti-Obama narrative that’ll predominate in the next couple of days is going to be just as irritating as the political consequences.

  3. the list of completed towns with awful turnout

       Lawrence: 28% turnout, 9878 votes, 65/34 Coakley

       Springfield: 32%, 28672 votes, 61/37 Coakley

       Southbridge: 34%, 4117 votes, 55/42 Brown

       Gosnold: 34%, 47 votes, Brown 29 votes, Coakley 18 votes

       New Bedford: 35%, 19921 votes, 59/39 Coakley

       Holyoke: 36%, 8809 votes, 55/43 Coakley

       Chelsea: 37%, 4136 votes, 62/36 Coakley

       Lowell: 38%, 20397 votes, 52/47 Brown

       Lynn: 38%, 18589 votes, 53/46 Coakley

       Fall River: 38%, 18173 votes, 57/41 Coakley

       Webster: 40%, 4592 votes, 65/34 Brown

       Adams: 40%, 2424 votes, 68/31 Coakley

       Brockton: 41%, 21618 votes, 54/45 Coakley

       Worcester: 42%, 38282 votes, 52/47 Coakley

       North Adams: 42%, 3853 votes, 74/25 Coakley

    Time for the biennial act where Democratic politicians turn into the average looking guy who tries to find a woman way out of his league and ignores the women who are interested in him. (that analogy can be revised if something else fits)

  4. the election is over, report the votes and go to bed.

    Unless you all have 150K ballots around or something

  5. As the Dems watch this loss of an important Senate seat and the 60 vote margin lets remember that this special election didnt even need to occur.

    The old MA law for filling Senate vacancy’s was changed (over Mitt Romney’s veto) in 2004 to prevent him from naming a replacement for Kerry if he won the presidency.

    The Dems were too cute by half. They changed the law to require special elections and are now reaping what they sowed.

  6. f*ckmonkey f*ck this f*cking f*ck a f*cking monkey. Ugf*ckle. Holy f*cking f*ck a f*cking f*ck.

    Bad. Very. Unhappy bad things. Things that bad-ify unto bad thinginess until f*ck a f*cktime. F*cking serious bad unhappy bad very thing bad f*ck thing. Very f*ck bad f*ck. Time for bad feeling.  

  7. Does Brown try to keep up his moderate appearance so he can try for a full term in 2012, or does he go full-on wingnut to keep the teabaggers happy?

    Because if it’s the former, I’m really interested to see how long it takes before they’re calling him a RINO and screaming for his head on a platter.

  8. ABC, anybody but Coakley.  Miserable candidate.

    But taken in conjunction with the neighboring Connecticut poll today, this should be the mantra for 2010….

    With very good candidates we crush Team Red.  With deadass, unpopular, idea-less candidates we will lose.

    2010… it’s all about the candidates.  (Reid quit now, Wes Clark run for the Senate).

  9. “It is clear that both the Left and Right find this health care reform bill unacceptable for different reasons. It’s clear that America is not ready politically to deal with the issue.”

    In 2 years we’ll have better Senators and we’ll get a more acceptable HCR bill.

  10. There’s a chance I think the Republicans will find good recruits to people like Feingold, Gillibrand, and Murray and try to wipe us out.  

  11. Pelosi had in reserve in the first passage through the House. Surely she released some vulnerable dems with the understanding that their votes might be needed if the conference vote were closer. I suspect the answer is something like (dems votes against – dems who voted for Stupak but against the bill). Also need to see how many progressives defect because they find the Senate version too regressive in financing and with respect to the exchanges.

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