The election is eight days away. Absentee ballots are due to city or town hall on Friday January 15, 2009 due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday next Monday.
The Scott Brown nationwide Moneybomb is underway at RedInvadesBlue.com. Robert Willington of Willington Media is updating the donation total throughout the day. As of 4 AM, the last time it was updated, Brown had raised $41,588.86 in on-line donations today. Check back to RedMassGroup.com as we will update the total periodically throughout the day.
The Boston Herald is reporting that the corrupt Democratic Machine is in overdrive trying to fend off the apocalypse that is a Scott Brown victory.
The final debate is scheduled for tonight to be moderated by David Gergen at the Kennedy Library.
Organizing for America, a grass-roots group linked to President Obama, yesterday sent a frantic e-mail blast to Bay State supporters urging them to man phones for Attorney General Martha Coakley. The group claims "special interests have poured in hundreds of thousands of dollars to mislead voters" in the race that has Wrentham state Sen. Scott Brown, the GOP nominee, gaining momentum.
Liberal political action group MoveOn.org, meanwhile, raised money online for Coakley, using the pitch-line, "Can you chip in to hold Ted Kennedy's seat and pass real health care reform?"
The Boston Globe does its best to focus the senate race on an issue that most people in the commonwealth could care less about, gay marriage.
Except, perhaps, within the GOP itself. The divergent views of the three prominent GOP candidates running statewide in Massachusetts - Baker; Christy Mihos, who is also running for governor; and state Senator Scott Brown, who is running for US Senate - are a reflection of how Republicans continue to wrestle with gay rights, and with how to balance social issues with economic ones in their political campaigns.
Baker and Mihos both support gay marriage, while Brown, who opposes it, helped efforts under former governor Mitt Romney, an outspoken opponent, to put a ban on the state ballot. Brown also won his state Senate seat in 2004 in a campaign that aired his opposition to same-sex marriage, and he has since accepted campaign contributions from activists and groups that have fought gay marriage.
Nothing to see here folks move along.
Martha Coakley on Wednesday was endorsed by the Western Mass chapters of the SEIU and Carpenters unions. At the endorsement she was joined by members of the corrupt Massachusetts Democratic machine. There was no word as to whether the SEIU send out an email to state workers accounts letting them know about the rally. Signs however point to yes.
The National Media is now paying attention to the race due to the close nature of it. There are stories today in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Huffington Post have stories about the race.
