Please remember these are the same people that told you Coakley would beat Brown by double-digits.
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You really need to get out more, Globe.
"For Mass. GOP, most races for Congress still uphill" by Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff | September 16, 2010
Beyond that South Shore district, Republican prospects become murkier, despite a thick field of GOP hopefuls waging battles against all but one of the Democratic incumbents.
The eight other Republican candidates lag far behind in fund-raising, with an average of $46,000 on hand per campaign, compared with $1.5 million on average for Democratic incumbents....
As if that matters in this kind of season in these kinds of times.
The LESS MONEY is MORE of an ADVANTAGE!
Democrats dismiss many of the GOP contenders as also-rans or candidates of the moment.
They are so blind and arrogant is makes you mad!
William Gunn, the Ware Republican who wants to unseat US Representative John Olver, was arrested in Washington, D.C., in March for disturbing the House by yelling “kill the bill’’ during the health care debate.
So leadership talked Olver into running again, huh?
He will NOT be getting MY VOTE!
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Still, in an election year that proved anything is possible in Massachusetts, Democrats aren’t taking reelection for granted. The number of GOP congressional contenders is unusual in Massachusetts, where Democratic congressmen frequently coasted to reelection unopposed, and Republicans are hoping to tap voters’ anti-incumbent anger and ride the national backlash straight to Nov. 2....
Yeah, nothing is making that go away. We are salivating at the prospect!
The biggest hopes lie with state Representative Jeffrey Perry, who’s running against Democratic Norfolk District Attorney William Keating for the open seat in the 10th Congressional District. The NRCC is also closely watching the Fifth Congressional seat held by US Representative Niki Tsongas, the most junior representative, and is eyeing the candidates who hope to unseat US Representatives Jim McGovern and Barney Frank.
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Legislative Looters in Your Ear
Republican Sean Bielat’s race against Frank, a polarizing figure who was at the center of last year’s bank bailouts, is expected to draw national attention, if only as a way to galvanize Republicans here and elsewhere. Bielat is a major in the US Marine Corps Reserve and a business consultant who previously worked as a program manager for iRobot on defense equipment....
Related: Barney Frank's Challenge
That's some choice.--more--"
So who turns out on election day?
"Democrats suffer an enthusiasm gap" by Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | September 16, 2010
Although voter turnout in Tuesday’s state primary was the lowest in decades in a gubernatorial-election year, there were strong indications of great energy on the Republican side in many places and of a lack of enthusiasm in many traditionally strong Democratic urban areas....
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Turnout in traditionally Democratic cities and many liberal areas was low to abysmal.....
John Walsh, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, noted [that] the state Democratic Party started September with a $1 million advantage over the state Republican Party in cash on hand for the final weeks of the race.
They think they can buy the election!
But Democrats will have to spend wisely to counteract the increased Republican energy in many parts of the state.
In Haverhill, a Merrimack Valley city that is nominally Democratic but sometimes votes Republican in November elections, Democratic turnout has generally exceeded that of Republicans by a wide margin in primaries in the last six gubernatorial cycles. On Tuesday, it flipped, with voters casting more Republican ballots than Democratic ones, according to unofficial results.
Similarly, in Barnstable, the most populous town on Cape Cod, a swing area, Democrats averaged 57 percent of primary turnout in six previous gubernatorial cycles. On Tuesday, the percentage fell to 44 percent, unofficial tallies showed.
Yeah, Democrats are in BIG TROUBLE OUT HERE, too!!!
