It’s already putting out CYA memos.
[Late afternoon update]
Coakley’s people are blaming the Democrat primary voters for her loss. Well, it’s certainly true that if they hadn’t been so foolish as to nominate her, she wouldn’t be losing today.
This reminds me somehow of Mr. Burns’ anger at the electoral process:
Mr. Burns: This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That’s democracy for you.
Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.
More than Coakley, actually.
[Update a few minutes later]
Her (few) supporters know it’s over, too:
As of late this afternoon, Luntz was still scrambling to balance his focus group with supporters of Democrat Martha Coakley. “I just lost another one,” Luntz growled over his cell phone from a hotel ballroom at Logan Airport. In the last 24 hours, six Coakley voters have dropped out. By contrast, Luntz hasn’t lost a single supporter of her opponent, Scott Brown.
The problem isn’t money. “They’re getting paid well,” Luntz says, “probably more than they’re making at their jobs. And they still don’t want to do it.”
Instead, says Luntz, they’re ashamed. “They don’t want to be on television defending Martha Coakley. It’s passé. It’s socially unacceptable. I never dreamed I’d see Democrats in Massachusetts embarrassed to admit they’re Democrats.”
They should have been embarrassed for at least the past four years.
Sad, at best.
By me the most positive sign is that so far all we see on the AP wire is stories about how “tight” the race is. If they could drag up even the faintest hint of a Coakley win — Coakley Leads In Early Returns, Kennedy Legacy Safe! — they absolutely would. The more silence or pursed-lip analyses of how “complex” this election is, the more likely a Brown victory.
Go Scott go!
The MSM are busy browning their pants.
You know, actually I’m a little struck by the gap opening up between the God President and his erstwhile MSM harem. Take this AP story. It’s astonishingly even-handed and sober, just the facts, without really any serious trace of the usual spin and attempts at manipulation. I’m also seeing a slight but noticeable defiance in the media about the White House’s round up the usual suspects line about all politics being local. They’re stating that, contrariwise, there’s definitely a degree to which this is a referendum on the President.
I wonder if the media are preparing to throw Obama under the bus? Wouldn’t that be poetic justice? Funny thing is, I think he knew all along how fickle their devotion would be, and this is why he treated them with contempt. But of course, the last thing any whore wants is to be reminded of her profession by her john.
Hey Rand, speakning of Simpsons, how about putting this image in the main thread?
http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/nelson-muntz.jpg
Don’t laugh yet. RCP blog has it Brown by a mere 5%, with only 10% of town reporting and nothing from Boston yet. To quote Harrison Ford, I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Yerch. The Democratic city machine is turning out big numbers for Coakley, and I don’t see Brown running the table in the ‘burbs yet. I’m predicting a nail-biter or disappointment, alas.
And can we please have that libertarian fruitcake taken out and shot? What is it with these cut off your nose to spite your face people? I guess the donks feel the same way about Ralph Nader, though.
Hmm. Maybe it’s possible. Brown’s up by 90,000 and that’s a lot of votes. He’s holding his own in Boston, so the votes Coakenstein needs won’t come from there. I wonder how many Harvard students and loonies live in Cambridge, which hasn’t reported yet?
Brown now up by 100,000. I’m not sure Coakley can find those votes now.
Down to twenty percent of the precincts. Cambridge only has reported 1 of 33 precincts and a fair portion of Boston’s precincts still haven’t reported. Still Brown has roughly a 97k lead on Coakley. Don’t think she’s going to make it.
AP has just called it.
By God he’s done it. He’s up by 110,000 votes. I don’t think it’s mathematically possible to catch him. Welcome Senator Brown and Godspeed. What an amazing event.
But how did he win? It’s weird. He doesn’t seem to have done that well in the Volvo-driving Hahvard educated burbs. Are we seeing the return of Reagan Democrats?
Simple. It’s the truck!
Oh, who’s sneering at the truck now?
It was all those Curt Schilling Yankees fans.
“…and marring the end of [Obama’s] first year in office.”
Ahhhhhh. *sniffle*
Pollster Celinda Lake said Coakley was hampered by the failure of the White House and Congress to confront Wall Street. That failure, she said, means that Democrats are being blamed by angry independent voters worried about the state of the economy.
No, no, no, this can’t be true. The Boston Globe has an opinion piece up saying Brown supporters are suppressing voters by bullying them and saying nasty things to them at Brown rallies. I’m not sure what nasty things were said to Coakley supporters who happened to be at a Brown rally, but that doesn’t matter. I don’t know what Coakley voters were kept from voting since voting hasn’t begun, but that doesn’t matter. The Globe and Kerry said it’s true, so it is. Brown is a meanie and Martha is a victim.