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Election roundup: Baker sees poll surge thanks to independents
By adamg on Thu, 10/23/2014 - 11:26pm
A Globe poll shows Baker with a 9-point lead, due mainly to independents settling on him as their candidate. It's the first poll to show such a wide gap between Baker and Coakley.
National media has glommed onto the Chokely meme, but ya know, one could make the case that Baker's a choker of a loser, too.
Speaking of losing, Coakley's AG's office had a lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dismissed.
Baker is getting a ton of ourside money backing him.
John Miller says he'll quit being a Republican if he gets elected attorney general.
Moulton, Tisei and a third candidate debated who should succeed John Tierney to represent the North Shore.
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Democrats need to learn from GWB
"Fool me once...fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
For the love of God, why on earth did they nominate Martha Coakley??
She is without a doubt the worst candidate ever run for an office in Massachusetts.
And she is about an inspiring as Arthur S. Demoulas.
Did they?
At the party convention a few months before the primary didn't she lose (or withdraw) from the vote they held at the end? She got elected mostly by democrats who didn't do any research, knew her name, and figured she would be the shoe-in. Once again the fault of the voters for not doing a lick of research before going to the polls. The party activists knew she damaged goods from the get-go. (She lost to little known Scott Brown after all.)
Of course if people would spend just a hour before each election to read up on the various candidates from all parties and ignore election ads this country would be in far better shape.
No, she got her 15%
Of course, so did Grossman and Berwick.
In the GOP convention, Fisher failed to get his 15% and sued to be put on the ballot anyway.
The problem is that the voters in the primary (the one between Coakley, Grossman, and Berwick) are more likely to be "machine" voters, and vote for whoever is the anointed candidate -- or at least a name they recognize. Hence, Coakley.
I held my nose and voted for her against Senator Centerfold; I won't this time.
The "machine" candidate was Grossman
he got the convention's endorsement. That didn't seem to sway the primary voters much (unfortunately)
Don't look at me
I voted for Kodos.
(More seriously, though, I voted for Don Berwick in the primary. I'm not looking forward to the upcoming election at all.)
Mass's bigwig Dems....
...prefer Baker -- who is a good old boy and an old pal who will happily make the same sort of (largely disastrous) backroom deals with them that his GOP predecessors did. These folks don't really like having a Dem governor who is not one of the good old boy network,
Funny that Coakley seems to
Funny that Coakley seems to have no problem letting the "good old boys" get away with rampant corruption at every opportunity. She is part of the machine even if not the most favored part.
Bingo
Name one thing Coakley has done during her AG tenure that shows she isn't one of the "good old boys".
Regardless....
... there is no sign that she was ever accepted into the club. I think Baker will do more backroom deals than Coakley would (not saying she would do none).
There is no sign she wasn't
She's been her party's candidate for 2 major offices now, how is that not being part of the club? What type of backroom deals do you envision Baker (or Coakley) doing?
Learn from GWB?
Does that mean we going to Invade Rhode Island because we're upset with New Hampshire?
No
It means we'll watch Vermont kill it's minorities and do nothing about it.
Vermont?
you mean kill its minority. I do believe there is one.
Turkey Liberation Front?
I'm waiting for Turkey Liberation Front to chime in here with a plan of attack. "We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air," etc. etc.
The Ferel Cat
ISIS brigade will impose Felia Law and purge greater Boston of its Turkey rivals.
The gubernatorial candidate
The gubernatorial candidate panel couldn't find the courage to mention the dire threat we pose to their oppressive colonial commonwealth during the debates or in their cowardly campaign propaganda. We will never loosely gobble our gallantly glorious strategy for securing liberation of our sacred ancestral homeland!
Thanksgiving and the mass murder of innocent Turkeys
is a blood lust that will not stand.
I am amused
When the President makes a big deal out of sparing the life of a turkey, then goes inside and chows down on its less-fortunate brother. It's sort of a metaphor for life.
BTW, Obama did not start this silliness; I think Kennedy did.
Oswald
was known to associate with Turkeys.
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Prosecuting Cahill now seems
Prosecuting Cahill now seems transparent, especially since it doesn't seem to be a deterrent for other people to act similarly . National Grid quid quo pro machination perception , the hits just keep on coming.
Eliminate a competitor
Smart move on her part, but if Cahill was guilty (which he probably was), so is Bill Galvin, yet she didn't prosecute him. Why?
Lovers on the down low? No
Lovers on the down low? No really! Do we know anything about either's personal lives?
Cahill was guilty of
Cahill was guilty of abandoning the Democrat's accession plan and running rogue Independent. He was supposed to wait his turn!
She's been very political
She's been very political with her prosecutorial power since she was the Middlesex DA.
I'm also not terribly comfortable with the idea that her understudy in the AG's office might be AG while she is Gov., though I generally like Healey 100 times more than Coakley and I think she's make a good AG, I'm just not comfortable with them both in power at the same time.
If Bakers wins and then is
If Bakers wins and then is indicted for the Chris Christie pay-to-play scandal, does that mean we might get stuck with Governor Karyn Polito? God save the Commonwealth.
Yes
That should be fun. (Not)
She's our
Palin.
There's no indictment coming....
If anything, it would be a campaign finance violation and a fine.
Independents?
And therein lies the problem. What the hell has happened to Americans that their idea of being "independent" as a voter STILL = voting for one of the "two" major parties?
Independents: my pet peeve
We are NOT Independents. We are unenrolled. We want the choice to vote for any candidate of any party at any time. This is very important during primary season. We can pick a ballot, any ballot to vote during a primary.
By using the term we, I understand I am generalizing my feelings onto the unenrolled voters, who, by the way, are the majority of voters in this Commonwealth.
Unenrolled: used to be called Independent
That changed when a group called the Independent High-Tech Party got enough votes in a statewide election to (briefly) become a "major party" a couple of decades ago.
Ugh. Martha. Why? I just
Ugh. Martha. Why? I just can't vote for the Dem. candidate if she's the candidate.
Also, every attack ad she airs against Baker makes her sound like a dweeb, because they seem like very disingenuous attacks. Am I supposed to think that insurance premiums went up for the past 10 years just because Baker got a raise?
At this point, I'm torn between abstaining or voting for Baker.
Or
Vote for Falchuk. Don't know why you'd vote for him? Maybe you should give his platform a read and see if he fits what you want the state's agenda to be.
I may vote for him. It's how I'm leaning at this point. If Baker is going to win, then I'm not wasting a vote for Martha (who I was holding my nose to vote for anyways) when the greater statement to potentially be made is to vote for Evan.
At this point, I see it similar to the fact that I'm voting against casinos in MA: I don't want politicians to get what they want. We have fallen so far in our democracy that any chance I have at having a say in the system as a voter is going to be taken just to thumb my nose at today's corrupt, ignorant, and self-serving politicians.