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.

Comments

[CaptDMO]

Oh sure, I understand the value of ousting the ne'er-do-well folk of questionable integrity in my neighboring states. It might actually cut down
on the expense of maintainence on the well worn North bound lanes of interstate roads by all those moving vans. However, I'm inclined to reserve my "disposable" assets to reinforce a NH legislature that might inspire a freeloader unfriendly environment, and inspire Socialist/Fascist/Liberal/Progressive/Parasitic (by any other name) seek easier pickings elsewhere (say...south of New Hampshire, ideally Conn. or N.Y.)

Sadly this years slate of proposed legislation reflects a bunch of yahoos
born into attitudes from elsewhere, and
haven't quite made the connection between seeking refuge from oppressive taxation, and discovering there's less "free stuff" paid for by, um...someone else who's committed less to "big ideas" and more toward actually swinging a scythe, pitchin' the hay, milling the flour, and baking the bread. (and puttin' up stores in their "off" time)

There's plenty of unsolicited "big ideas" that have infected NH that I
gladly respond to with NOT ONE THIN DIME. I'll be damned if I'll gamble increasingly hard-to-come by "extra" treasure on someone else's clogged political septic tank, that the likes of ANY of Joe Kennedy's spawn, Barny Frank, and ANYONE, (apparently, dead or alive), who'd continue to enable him, swim in.

Of course, your mileage may vary.

[Tom Bowler]

You make a good point about keeping the focus and the disposable assets local Cap, but the US Senate is our septic tank. Oddly enough the country is so much better off when it's clogged, and that's the point of supporting Brown. We need to clog it.