AFL-CIO Admits to Sheep Membership

There is an interesting article on The Huffington Post. The premise of the article is that the reason Martha Coakley lost was due to lack of union support, more accurately, the democrats not utilizing the unions to their benefit.


"Data points provided independently to the Huffington Post show that union voters in Massachusetts were 15 percentage points more likely to vote for Attorney General Martha Coakley if they simply had been asked"

They need to be asked? "Coakley won union voters who had heard from their union by 10 points, while losing those who said they had not heard from their union by 5 points."

This is from data collected by the AFL-CIO. I am very surprised that they want to be so open about the fact that the members of these unions are just sheep who don't have minds of their own.

One must also question how they know so much about how their members voted. Are the people volunteering this information? It seems that after every election the unions have detailed data. This raises a very red flag for me. I personally don't have a problem telling someone who I am voting for, but I know plenty of people who do.

The article goes on to say that had Coakley's campaign reached out to the unions they would have mobilized for her. Didn't they know there was an election? It certainly got a great deal of coverage the last two weeks. I can only imagine how many commercials were on television during the last few weeks.

Mr. President is that all you got? Coakley, Obama, and Bush Bashing

Mighty Mouse Obama went up to Boston yesterday to help out the floundering Coakley campaign.  During his brief time there he went to his fall back position of Blame Bush.  Hasn't that gotten old yet, Mr. President?  I certainly think it has. 

The congress has been in democratic control since 2006 and you have been in office for almost a year.  It is time that you start taking responsibility for the decisions that you and your ilk have been making.  Is it President Bush's fault that the so-called healthcare reform is wildly unpopular?  Is is Bush's fault that you are going to double the national debt in one year?  Is it Bush's fault that your wasteful spending has not helped the economy?  Is it Bush's fault that people are sick of the bailout mentality?  Is it Bush's fault that Pelosi and Reed are writing bribery into legislation in order to pass the far left agenda?  I think not. 

Oh, and by the way - I don't think it was such a good idea to insult people who drive GM trucks........especially since we the tax payers own it. 

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia - Kennedy Doesn't Even Know Coakley's Name

During the Sunday push to try and save the campaign of Martha Coakley, the dems were bringing in everyone under the sun.

After a rally Congressman Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Ted Kennedy, was answering questions from the press.  During the Bush bashing offensive, he didn't know her name.  He kept calling her Marcia. 

“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole … then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”

Sadly, he said it on numerous occassions, so it will be hard to characterize it as a slip of the tongue. 

Hey, isn't he the one who drinks?  Maybe he had one too many before he showed up. 

Martha Coakley - A Campaign That is Imploding

Martha Coakley's husband is a retired police officer.  During the campaign she was giving the impression that they supported her candidacy.  Well, not so much. 

The 212 member Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association voted to endorse State Senator Scott Brown for United States Senator in next Tuesday’s election against Attorney General Martha Coakley. CPSOA’s President released the following letter today:


All Members,


Members of our Association have inquired and requested that we endorse Scott Brown in the upcoming election against Martha Coakley. Ms. Coakley along with some of her campaign workers have talked publicly about how her husband is a retired Cambridge Police Officer, giving appearances that she is being endorsed by the Cambridge Police. This may be an innocent insinuation but most do take this as our giving her our support and endorsement. Yesterday, the CPPOA Executive Board voted to endorse State Senator Scott Brown in the upcoming election for US Senate. In an 11 to 2 vote, the Executive Board voted overwhelmingly in favor of the endorsement. We do not endorse anyone who advocates changes in the health care that take away any bargaining rights or increases our cost along with our contributions. Senator Brown does not support the Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Bill and promises to be the 41st vote to ensure its defeat.


She also called Red Sox Great Curt Shilling a Yankee Fan. 
 
It seems like the pressure is really getting to her.  Yikes!!

Superman Is Flying in to Save the Day - Obama to Campaign For Coakley

President Obama will be flying into MA to campaign for Martha Coakley's floundering campaign. 

I find a few things interesting about this:

1. Obama is willing to put himself out there when there is a good chance that Coakley is going to lose this race.  During the recent governor's campaign here in Virginia, the White House distanced itself from loser Creigh Deeds before the election. 

2. The White House released a statement saying that they were only asked today to make an appearance.  The Coakley campaign has said that it has been in touch with White House officials for days.  They need to get their stories straight. 

3. There are articles in Washington papers today, that is indeed signaling that the incomptence of the Coakley campaign staff is to blame, and it has nothing to do with the policies of the administration or the behavior of current congress. 

Scott Brown Polling Ahead of Martha Coakley

The latest polls now have state senator Scott Brown pulling ahead of attorney general Martha Coakley 50 to 47.

Scott Brown is winning among independents by a large margin 65% to 30%

17% of democrats are supporting Scott Brown. 

Brown has also raised at least a million dollars everyday this week.  His average donation is under $75. 

This pollster was the only one who predicted Hillary Clinton's win in New Hampshire 2008. 

Martha Coakley has done much of this to herself.  In an interview on Wednesday she said the following

Ken Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin. ah you don’t want to do that.


Martha Coakley: No we have a seperation of church and state Ken, lets be clear.

Ken Pittman: In the emergency room you still have your religious freedom.

Martha Coakley: (……uh, eh…um..) The law says that people are allowed to have that. You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.

Nice, so this woman thinks she has the right to tell people of faith where to work.  Why in heck did the people of MA vote for this woman in the primary? 

Her ever evolving story of her aide and the reporter certainly has not helped matters.  But, what I think is the most important factor in this is the sheer arrogance of this woman.  She has behaved like the seat belonged to her once the primary was over.  If she does indeed lose this race, she may want to rethink that 6 day vacation she took after the primary. 
 
Even the left leaning paper Boston Herald is stunned:
 
Boston Herald opinion writer Howie Carr believes he’s seeing a trend already in the absentee voting. Carr says, “It becomes increasingly clear, Scott Brown is winning among the people who work for a living, as opposed to Democrats, who are Martha’s voters.

Coakley Campaign Pushing Back With a Little Help from the DSCC

Last night senate candidate Martha Coakley held an expensive fundraising dinner at Sonoma's (one of my faves btw) in Washington DC. The fundraiser was attended by what else but lobbyists. Coakley was asked by Fox News what she was doing in Washington and told Griff Jenkins that she was there for a pre-planned "Unity" event.



John McCormack from The Weekly Standard was asking why she was holding a fundraiser with healthcare industry interests. He also was trying to get some clarification on her statement in Monday’s night debate that there are no longer any terrorists in Afghanistan. The reporter was giving her a chance to step back from a stupid comment. If there no more terrorists in Afghanistan who is that is killing our serviceman there? Who killed those CIA agents?



Coakley was not all that interested in answering any questions from him. The reporter was doing what reporters do, and followed her trying to get his questions answered. While asking his questions he was then pushed into a metal railing and fell to the ground. Unfortunately for the campaign there are pictures and video of the event. The AP was able to get a good shot of the man with Coakley helping the reporter up.



It seems that this man is none other than Michael Meehan, who was loaned out to the campaign from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Nice, the DSCC is now pushing reporters to the ground for having the audacity to ask a candidate for statewide office a question. How dare he?



The Weekly Standard has been unable to confirm that the man who pushed him is indeed Michael Meehan; below are some pictures. You can decide for yourselves if it is the same man. Looks like him to me.

AP Photo taken of man helping up the reporter.  The Coakley campaign is saying that they don't know who the man is. Doesn't it seem a little bizarre that the campaign doesn't know who the man is and he is this close to her?
 

Picture of Michael Meehan

Updated Polls - Coakley and Brown a Statistical Tie

The Latest Numbers as of 1/11/10

Coakley 49%

Brown 47%

A Republican being two points behind one week before election day is amazing.  Scott Brown may not be able to pull of this miracle, but he already has given the democratic party a shot across the bough.  He should not be this close.  President Obama won the state by an almost 3 to 1 margin, and he still has a postive approval rating. 

Scott Brown had a "Moneybomb" grassroots fundraising event yesterday and raised more than $1.3 million, with the majority of the donations being under $100.

Wednesday night Martha Coakley held an expensive fundraiser with lobbyists in Washington DC.

Wasn't it President Obama that said over and over again that lobbyists is what is wrong with our government? 

Hmm, under that paradigm wouldn't Obama have to vote for Scott Brown, the people's candidate? 

Coakley V. Brown Poll Numbers - Special Election in MA

The one and only poll being done by a national pollster has been completed:

Coakley - 50%

Brown -  41%

Undecided - 7%

Favorable/Unfavorable numbers:




Coakley
21% very favorable 22% very unfavorable

Brown
25% very favorable 5% very unfavorable

Independants numbers are as follows:

Coakley 21%

Brown 65%

These numbers are important as the fact is that people who have very strong opinions are the ones that are going to show up in special elections.



One of the fascinating things about these results is that Kennedy won this seat with 69% of the vote, so Martha Coakley only getting 50% of the vote is surprising.  This is a very blue state. 

MA's healthcare was reformed in a way that is much like the national bill that is presently in congress.  The numbers for this is another view of what is going on with this election:

32% consider the reforms sucessful
36% consider the reforms a failure
32% undecided

National Healthcare Bill numbers:

36% strongly oppose
27% strongly favor

The most important number of all is:
People who are certain that they will vote brings Scott Brown within 2 points of Martha Coakley.

All and all, I would say that these are pretty positive numbers for Scott Brown.  After all, President Obama won the state with 62% of the vote.