Libertarian Leanings

Scott Brown Trails By Nine

A Rasmussen telephone survey of likely Massachusetts voters has Scott Brown trailing Martha Coakley by 50% to 41% with two weeks left in the race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. There's good news and there's bad news.  The good news:  This race may be closer than the polls indicate.

The health care issue is expected to play a big role in the debate and Massachusetts voters hold modestly favorable attitudes about the proposed legislation. In the Bay State, 53% favor the plan working its way through Congress and 45% oppose it.

However, as is the case nationally, those who feel strongly about the bill are more likely to be opposed. The overall figures include 36% who Strongly Oppose the plan while 27% Strongly Favor it.

Nationally, most voters oppose the proposed health care plan.

Both candidates get better than 70% of the vote from members of their respective parties, but Brown leads 65% to 21% among voters not affiliated with either of the major parties. In Massachusetts, however, Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans and it is very difficult for the GOP to compete except in special circumstances.

This could be that special circumstance.  Brown represents the 41st vote against nationalized health care.  The bad news:  The polls may not matter.  Sissy Willis points out what I've long suspected may be going on in Massachusetts politics.

"Mass. has long been suspected as having a problem with voter fraud," writes archer52 of Truth And Common Sense in the comments of Dan Riehl's "Why is Coakley Hiding Out?" cited here yesterday, offering an insider's account of how elections are won or lost in Massachusetts and why Scott Brown may not fill the Kennedy seat even if more citizens vote for him than for his Democrat opponent in the January 19 special election:

The dems learned a valuable lesson in 2000 when a Republican certified Bush as a winner. They went out and ran democrats for key positions at the state level. It paid off in Washington and this year in Minnesota [see George Soros's secretaries-of-state project].

How bad is it? Let me tell you a story. I had a chance to work with Boston PD on a case back in the nineties. The LT. I spoke to sounded like a real nice regular fella, so I asked him why in the world they kept voting in Ted Kennedy. He said, “Well, it is like this. When we are mad at him, we only vote for him once …” There was a silence on the phone as it slowly sunk in, then I got it. Ted Kennedy could have been caught with a headless prostitute and with the knife in one hand and the head in the other and he would still be re-elected, mostly by dead people.

It’s that bad.

Against all odds!  I just kicked $100 into the Brown campaign -- following Sissy's lead.

Looking Towards 2010

This ought to inspire some hope for Republicans in 2010 midterm elections.  Lieutenant Colonel Allen West (US Army, Retired) is the Republican candidate for Congress in Florida's 22nd district. Inspiring.

By way of Pal2Pal.