10 thoughts on “A Republican Senator From Massachusetts?”

  1. Intrade vastly favors the Democrat at 93-97% chance of winning. I don’t think this one is going to happen, but if it does, it certainly will be an earthquake.

  2. As I note over there, even if he makes it a lot closer than expected, it could still have a big political impact. But he has to run a smart campaign. No signs of that yet.

  4. Rand considering I am from Taxachusetts what would you consider a smart campaign? This is the state that voted against eliminating income tax while the political powers a few months after raised sales tax, and added a sales tax on alcohol.
    Don’t think wrapping himself with Sarah Palin rhetoric or the ‘tea party’ will do him favors, heck in this neck of the woods. Women more vehemently hate Sarah than guys. Outside of bringing in more money to do advertising. Appealing to the tea party, Sarah Palin won’t be a winning strategy other than Massachusetts talk radio listeners, which brown dose quite a lot of appearing on the local rightwing radio show and taking the forefront on preventing a domestic terrorist/cop killer, a”Bill Ayers” type from speaking at UMASS

    The only advertising I’ve seen/heard from republicans was his rino of a competitor Jack E Robinson running a ad calling Brown a RINO and in the same commercial the competitor saying he create jobs for Massachusetts.

    And as far as the democratic race the primaries was a race to the left. The democratic candidate who came in 2nd ran commercials on how he protect our liberties and that there is always others “like Dick Cheneys and Bush”. While the guy who came in last, a local sports team owner, friend/worked with Romney and gave money to Bush, pretty much spend the most money. Try to run as far left as he could do and white wash the Bush money and say he was supporting his friend Romney. Even going as so far as saying the faux pa of during a debate supporting a draft.

  5. heck in this neck of the woods. Women more vehemently hate Sarah than guys.

    Given context, I suspect this was meant to be one sentence. And from what I’ve seen women hate Palin more than men do, pretty much everywhere.

    I can’t imagine why.   :-/

  6. Mitt Romney came closer than anyone else to unseating Kennedy (which isn’t saying much), so I wonder if there’s any campaigning strategy clues in there.

    I remember a Rush Limbaugh frustration with the Romney/Kennedy debate. Rush noted that every single question was about what material providence the government can supply to the public. Romney didn’t take the opportunity, in Rush, opinion, to forcefully stand up to the nanny state and the citizen helplessness that it breeds. I remember one remark vividly: Rush said that if he’d been Romney, he would have pointed to Ted and said, “His brother said ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.'”

    Oh yeah, that would have been great. The Boston Globe would have had a conniption.

    I just read the original speech for the first time. JFK’s “ask not” line seems a bit out of place – unless you first read this passage, apparently the only spot where average folks doing stuff for their country gets addressed at all:

    “Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”

    The sentence following the famous “ask not” line needs to be heard more often:

    “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

  7. I moved from MA to NH. It’s hopeless. The culture of voting Democrat Party is too deeply ingrained. Now spread to Southern NH as we have recently elected a D senator and all congress D. Thought not Republicans, both my wife and I held our noses got involved and worked for McCain.

  8. Amirault is why Martha Coakley should be in prison, not running for office. Maybe the shamelessness of modern Massachusetts is some kind of weird reaction to its earliest Puritanism.

  10. It sure is fun to come back and read these threads later! I’m starting to think intrade is much better at showing immediate sentiment than predicting future results. Does that make it really a lot like the stock market?

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