Boston Herald has a great piece on the candidates's days on the trail yesterday. Brown was joined by the people South Boston for a campaign rally that was put up on YouTube. Martha was joined by the Beacon Hill Democratic Machine in a visit to the most progressive of Boston Neighborhoods, Jamaica Plain.
"You see it right here," he said as he waved at honking cars and shook hands in traditionally Democratic South Boston. "We are taking the message to the voters and to the streets. I start at 6 or 7 and I stop at 10 at night."
He predicted: "I'm going to win Southie."
Coakley was joined by Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral, City Councilor John Connolly and state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz.
Frank Quaratiello follows up his piece on the stalling of a swearing in of Scott Brown today. The Democratic Machine both in Boston and DC are gearing up to stall seating brown. The Prince of Darkness had the following to say when reminded that Tsongas was sworn in after two days.
"The House is far less formal than the Senate," Galvin said.
Galvin said the election will not be considered complete by his office until Jan. 29, when 10 days have been allowed for absentee and military ballots to arrive.
But, he added, "We will do whatever the clerk of the Senate tells us. We're not going to make any effort to delay the election."
That's the way to have the interests of the people of the Commonwealth at heart PoD. Take your cue from Washington insiders.
Howard Lawrence Carr says that Martha is Deval's "canary in the coal mine". That the closer Brown gets to Coakley the worse it is for Deval.
The closer Scott Brown comes to winning the special Senate election next week, the worse it is for Deval's already-dim prospects for re-election. I mean, Martha has but a supporting role in what state Sen. Scott Brown calls "the machine."
As attorney general, Martha is the official custodian of the state broom. Whenever a hack gets in a jam - last week it was Dianne Wilkerson - Martha shifts into inspector mode, leaving no stone unturned, except of course the one the perp is hiding under.
Nothing to see here folks - move along. That's Martha's motto.
Martha Coakley - Enabler of Corruption
The Boston Globe has a long article painting Brown as a conservative. No doubt that was meant as a smear. I mean come on people he's a conservative, this is Massachusetts, we don't elect conservatives here!
State Senator Scott P. Brown laughed last week when a national media personality asked him to elaborate on his politics: By describing himself as a fiscal conservative and an independent, did Brown mean to suggest he's a social liberal?
"No,'' Brown chuckled in the radio interview. "I'm not known as a social liberal, that's for sure.''
The inquiring host was Sean Hannity, cohost of Fox News Network's "Hannity and Colmes,'' who - like other conservatives across the country - was suddenly showering Brown with attention. A poll had just indicated that Brown was within striking distance of his Democratic rival to succeed the late Edward M. Kennedy, suggesting the tantalizing possibility of upending the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority in the US Senate and derailing the health care overhaul from Kennedy's home turf.
How out of touch are these people on Morrissey Boulevard. Colmes hasn't been on the show for over a year. It's the Hannity show. I guess they really don't watch, only decide.
Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post compares Martha Coakley to Hillary Clinton and Scott Brown to Barack Obama as she compares this election to the 2008 Democratic Primary.
The Jan. 19 special election to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat is beginning to resemble the 2008 presidential election, when the "inevitable" Hillary Clinton was overtaken by a surprising phenomenon named Barack Obama.
Only this time, it's a wunderkind from the right overtaking an overconfident woman on the left. Conventional wisdom in Massachusetts has long held that Attorney General Martha Coakley would sail into Kennedy's seat as a natural heiress, without having to stock up on hand sanitizer. She's a liberal Democrat in tune with Kennedy's philosophy and ready to cast her votes accordingly.
But something has happened the past couple of months. State Sen. Scott Brown, a relative pauper when it comes to political spending, has been closing in. While Coakley has been drumming her fingers until fate gets on with it, Brown has been standing on street corners, holding up signs, delivering posters and putting 200,000 miles on his pickup truck.
