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For My Friends in Massachusetts

Every Vote Matters. You can either ignore the decades of work by Ted Kennedy to get Health Care for all Americans, you can ignore the two terms of George W. Bush and the six years of Republican led Congress that brought us to the dismal near-Depression that the Obama Administration has been busting a tail to get us away from, you can fall for the cries of the wealthy and the Corporations that taxes are coming (for them… not 95% of you)… or you can buy into the lies that have been told by Scotty Brown to suck up to the Teabaggers.

If you are a woman who needs womens health coverage, if you are unemployed and know it was the Republicans and the Banks and operations like AIG that got us there, if you are a Union member who forgets that the number of Union members in the USA is half of what it was when we started all this Conservative crap under Reagan and continued it right through George W. Bush… Then you better be ready to Vote For Coakley.

If you don’t get out there and do it, we weaken the Senate that we need to make America strong for ALL of us again.

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  3. Shaun Appleby

    Is that Brown is pioneering the evolving Republican strategy of not saying anything about his genuine legislative agenda in the interests of getting elected.  Do Americans want health care reform or not?  If they haven’t made up their minds by now than God help them all.


    “Understand what’s at stake here Massachusetts. It’s whether we’re going forward or going backwards,” Obama said during a rally for Coakley as he tried to energize his dispirited base in this Democratic stronghold. “If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election.”

    Charles Babington and Liz Sidoti – Obama Coakley Speech: President Seeks To Save Senate Seat, Health Vote Huffington Post 16 Jan 10

    It’s gonna’ be close, I hope:


    With just one day to go before the election, a new poll of potential voters in the upcoming Massachusetts Senate race has it all tied up between Attorney General Martha Coakley and state senator Scott Brown.

    Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would vote for both candidates, according to a just released Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of 500 commonwealth voters. That number is certainly music to the Coakley campaign’s ears, as it comes just half a day after another poll put the race at a 51-46 percent margin in Brown’s favor.

    Sam Stein – All Tied Up: Coakley And Brown Matched At 48 Percent In Latest Poll Huffington Post 16 Jan 10

    And kudos to Kos for getting into the polling business, it can really help at times like this.

  4. Shaun Appleby

    A last minute effort:


    As Mr. Obama appeared alongside Ms. Coakley, thousands of phone calls were being placed to voters by out-of-state volunteers. Organizing for America, the outgrowth of the Obama campaign’s army of volunteers, essentially took over the get-out-the-vote operation for Ms. Coakley.

    Jeremy Bird, the deputy director of the organization, said volunteers made 90,000 calls on Saturday to voters in the state and were on their way to repeating that performance on Sunday. In a conference call for volunteers across the country, Mr. Bird said: “Don’t cross your fingers. Dial them.”

    Jeff Zeleny – Democrats Push to Salvage a Flailing Candidacy NYT 16 Jan 10

    So?  Call them.

  5. DTOzone

    doing a story about volunteer ambulance corps in Queens. He was heading out to catch a plane to DC, we had a candid conversation about healthcare in the elevator. He’s not optimistic there will be a bill at all, he think the votes for the Senate bill aren’t there in the House and not because liberals won’t swallow the bill, but conservatives will run for the hills. he also expects a “breaking dam” of retirements if Brown wins.

    he thinks the majority will be lost unless unemployment kicks down, to which he said “much of that is beyond our control”

    I asked him how he thinks this happened and he said it happened because “we have to defend ourselves 100 times as hard as the right does” and pointed out that no one debating whether or not the Iraq war was a good idea, but the media “spend hours debating Sarah Palin’s ‘death panels’ bullshit”

    This is why I love my job.  

  6. HappyinVT

    BOSTON (The Borowitz Report) – Firing up voters on the eve of the special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat, Republican candidate Scott Brown spoke at a campaign rally today, proclaiming, “With your help, our dream of depriving millions of health care is within reach.”

    “Let’s send a message, Massachusetts!” Mr. Brown exhorted the crowd. “Let’s tell people across the country that if they want health coverage, they are shit out of luck!”

    An aide to Mr. Brown said that internal polling reveals that the Republican’s anti-healthcare message may be catching on: “Right now, Scott is showing a double-digit lead among people who describe themselves as douchebags.”

    from huffington post via balloon juice

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