Mass Senate: Get Ready for Another Round of GOP Failure = Success

[Mass]

At least somebody with some common sense.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/145037/mass_senate:_get_ready_for_another_round_of_gop_failure_%3D_success

Oh, Christ -- in the Massachusetts Senate race, are we about to play another round of GOP Failure = Success?

... A Brown win remains improbable, given that Democrats outnumber Republicans by 3 to 1 in the state and that Ms. Coakley, the state's attorney general, has far more name recognition, money and organizational support.

But a tighter-than-expected margin in the closely watched race would still prompt soul-searching among Democrats nationally, since the outcome will be the first real barometer of whether problems facing the party will play out in tangible ways at the polls later this year.

"If I had to bet a week's salary," said Dennis Hale, a political science professor at Boston College, "I'd still bet it on Coakley. But this is going to be like in the military, where the bullet misses you but it still scares you to death."

Yup -- Bush becomes president in 2000 despite losing the popular vote by half a million votes and winning Florida only through mismarked ballots, voter caging, election-worker intimidation, and a partisan Supreme Court ... and he waltzes into the Oval Office as if he just won 49 states. And the Beltway accepts this as perfectly normal and appropriate. Whereas if Coakley wins this race by anything less than double digits, are we going to have idiot "soul-searching" Democrats babbling to reporters that it was a failure? And even if hack Democrats somehow refrain from shooting themselves in the foot this way, I guess it's clear now that the press and pundits are probably going to proclaim a single-digit win a loss. Sigh.

So, please, Massachusetts voters, turn out for Coakley -- just to get these clowns to shut up.

Oh, and by the way, single-digit Senate wins are not unheard of for Massachusetts Democrats -- John Kerry beat William Weld in 1996 by a 52%-45% margin.

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. I expect Brown to win...

...on the back of a landslide of disaffected Democratic voters turning out to elect the 41st senator to vote against cloture on the conference committee report.

It's the only way to stop the evil mandate, and I have been assured numerous times here on DU that to fail to oppose it -- as Coakley has failed to do -- is electoral death.

[Mass]

2. Sure, if Democrats are idiot, she will lose. And MA will send to the Senate an homophobic,

anti-choice, pro-war and pro-torture, anti-union, (....) senator.

After that, those who did not vote for her because of the healthcare bill will be directly responsible for continuing all the things that are wrong in this country, because Scott Brown has nothing good in him, including in healthcare.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Nothing is more important than killing mandates....

...NOTHING!!!!

This is DU, dammit.

[secondwind]

4. I hear ya.....but don't throw the baby out with the bath water, for Pete's sake.

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. This is DU....

....where the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater, and the bathtub, and the wash cloth, and the squeaky rubber duck...leaving behind only the soggy Kucinich/Dean 2012 poster -- or is it Dean/Kucinich? I can't remember.

[Kdillard]

5. k and r. I hope Coakley wins I don't care about the margin or what pundits think

About it.