For All Massachusetts Residents - Don't forget to Vote

IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,727
edited February 2010 in A Moving Train
For Scott Brown on 1/19!

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  • Eff Scott Brown.
  • For Scott Brown on 1/19!

    +1 Not talking politics, but +1.
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  • Sorry for intruding on your thread as I have no idea who that politician is.

    But the title immediately made me remember a TV ad from when I was a kid in RI:

    "And they don't call us Taxachussetts any more."
    "May you live in interesting times."
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  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    I'm not the biggest fan of Martha Coakley... I voted for one of her opponents, Michael Capuano, in the primary, who would probably be faring better against Scott Brown right now, but I'll be damned if all of the hard work on health care reform gets knocked down by one vote. Martha Coakley is your typical politician, but so is Scott Brown.
  • Kenny Olav wrote:
    I'm not the biggest fan of Martha Coakley... I voted for one of her opponents, Michael Capuano, in the primary, who would probably be faring better against Scott Brown right now, but I'll be damned if all of the hard work on health care reform gets knocked down by one vote. Martha Coakley is your typical politician, but so is Scott Brown.

    That's not what was said in the debate last night.

    Brown said that he is for health care reform, just not the bill that's currently being debated. He just wants a say in trying to help trim some of the enormous fat from the bill, which would never happen under Coakley's watch. This notion that this specific bill needs to pass because "That's the way Teddy wanted it" is ludicrous.

    Sorry, I just can't help myself from abstaining sometimes.

    Also, regardless of which candidate you like, just make sure to vote. It is our civic duty and our responsibility as Americans. This stuff matters a lot!
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I'm not the biggest fan of Martha Coakley... I voted for one of her opponents, Michael Capuano, in the primary, who would probably be faring better against Scott Brown right now, but I'll be damned if all of the hard work on health care reform gets knocked down by one vote. Martha Coakley is your typical politician, but so is Scott Brown.

    That's not what was said in the debate last night.

    Brown said that he is for health care reform, just not the bill that's currently being debated. He just wants a say in trying to help trim some of the enormous fat from the bill, which would never happen under Coakley's watch. This notion that this specific bill needs to pass because "That's the way Teddy wanted it" is ludicrous.

    Sorry, I just can't help myself from abstaining sometimes.

    Also, regardless of which candidate you like, just make sure to vote. It is our civic duty and our responsibility as Americans. This stuff matters a lot!

    The bill needs to pass because there are people dying because they either have no coverage or inadequate coverage! Because families are being bankrupted by health care costs. How long do we have to keep debating this? No one is really saying it needs to pass because Teddy Kennedy wanted it... that's just bullshit Republican rhetoric, just like the idea that the reform bill will bankrupt us. The current non-system is bankrupting us and fucking people over left and right.

    Stop listening to corporate shills on the radio who are nothing but experts on how to spur on rabid liberal haters, stop spending billions on bombs that piss off already destitute countries, and start spending money to fix our roads, our schools and our health care!

    You're right... it does matter a lot!
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  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    edited January 2010
    I'm officially pissed off at Martha Coakley and her campaign. She could very easily blow this election. Her negative campaign ad is cheesy and unfair regarding the topic of the morning after pill for rape victims. Scott Brown's position is that Christian hospitals should not have to provide these pills, which I personally don't care much about because there are plenty of other places to get the pill, even though it's stupid for any hospital not to provide it. Her ad doesn't get into the details of course... it just makes it looks like Brown doesn't care about rape victims. The ad also acts like being a Republican is the worst thing you can be, which is close to true, but it's an insensitive tactic because it'll easily anger Republicans and anyone who ever voted for a Republican into voting against her. Misspelling Massachusetts and having a pushy campaign staffer and such is not helping her at all and when I read a lot of the local criticism of her, it's hard to disagree with a lot of it.

    Which pisses me off because one of my biggest concerns is the fact that we live in a country in which no one is guaranteed health insurance. Why do we guranteee protection of our private property, but not our health? Unfortunately, the current health care reform bill is a convoluted mess which got that way because HMO lobbylists made it that way, to make sure they can keep and probably expand their profits. We should have a single-payer health care system, and we should have had it 50 years ago. Year after year, polls have shown that people want this. I really hate politics in America. Democracy is a joke here. Scott Brown, if he wins, will do nothing but ride a wave of discontent that leads to nowhere but the self-satisfaction of self-righteous conservatives. If Martha Coakley wins, at least we know millions more Americans will have health insurance and all of us will have better protections. So while I'm not a fan of her, I hope she wins. It comes down to the issues.
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  • You've seen her new ad that misspells the word Massachusetts? Hilarious. Great campaign she's running.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • morgie2morgie2 Posts: 1,065
    For Scott Brown on 1/19!
    +1
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    This Illinois resident just sent $50 to Scott Brown!
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    It's amazing the amount of money coming in from all over the nation trying to get Scott Brown elected. If he manages to win in that state imagine what could happen in the rest of the country! Voting for this health care disaster is political suicide.

    Let's work on getting Pelosi out too!
  • The rumor is that Obama's coming to Mass this weekend to stump for Martha. I bet this puts her over the top to beat Scott. I for one will be disappointed if that happens. I mean, shouldn't he be more focused on getting the economy back on track and keeping us safe from terrorists?
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    The rumor is that Obama's coming to Mass this weekend to stump for Martha. I bet this puts her over the top to beat Scott. I for one will be disappointed if that happens. I mean, shouldn't he be more focused on getting the economy back on track and keeping us safe from terrorists?

    If Bush or ANY other President was in power under these same circumstances would they do ANYTHING different? Would they?

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  • g under p wrote:
    The rumor is that Obama's coming to Mass this weekend to stump for Martha. I bet this puts her over the top to beat Scott. I for one will be disappointed if that happens. I mean, shouldn't he be more focused on getting the economy back on track and keeping us safe from terrorists?

    If Bush or ANY other President was in power under these same circumstances would they do ANYTHING different? Would they?

    Peace

    Probably not. I agree with you on that. Sad but true. We'll see what happens.

    This has been by far the closest Massachusetts election that I can remember. It's impossible to get away from it. TV and radio ads nonstop. Regardless of political belief, it's so important to vote.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    JB811 wrote:
    It's amazing the amount of money coming in from all over the nation trying to get Scott Brown elected. If he manages to win in that state imagine what could happen in the rest of the country! Voting for this health care disaster is political suicide.

    Let's work on getting Pelosi out too!


    Rest assured, health care reform will pass before either Coakely or Brown take office, and after the changes take place, no one will be complaining about it anymore.

    Meanwhile people with "pre-existing conditions" and people who lost their job due the unstable economy that the deregulated capitalism supported by guys like Scott Brown helped to create, have no health insurance. That's something worth complaining about. Brown would rather complain about the new taxes that only the rich will have to pay.

    And having thought about it some more, I agree that Coakley should make an issue out of Scott Brown's legislation that would allow hospitals to deny the morning-after pill to rape victims. So I take back what I posted earlier. I hate to think if I were in that position that I would be told to go somewhere else.

    So Coakley's got Clinton, Obama and the Democratic machine on her side... Brown's got McCain, Guiliani and the Republican machine, and all of the conservative mass media on his side. That psychopath Jay Severin on 96.9 FM in Boston is buddying up with Scott Brown... and for the record Severin the other day said Rush Limbaugh was "100% correct" in his recent statements regarding Obama and Haiti.

    But guess when the Democratic and Republican machines are going away? NEVER. I'm sorry but thinking that voting for Scott Brown is a revolutionary act against "the machine" is delusional. I don't expect greatness from Coakely, but I do prefer the Democratic machine.

    I find it ironic that Scott Brown grew up on welfare, because he's supported by those who would love to get rid of the welfare system, or who are always complaining about it.
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    I am not a fan of Martha Coakley in the least but will vote for her. I just think Scott Brown is full of shit. I watched the last debate and the moderator quoted Scott Brown on global warming and he said it was "inaccurate". The moderator then quoted him again, gave the date, and the media source it was quoted in and because it didn't make him look good at that moment, he said it was "inaccurate" and "misquoted". How convenient. Like I said, I don't think Martha Coakley is the answer, I definately think Scott Brown is a bullshit artist.
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  • Vote on Tuesday January 19.
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    Today is the day. If Scott Brown can pull this out the rest of those that vote for this disaster of a bill are putting their political careers at risk.


    Rooting for Scott Brown!
  • IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,727
    voted for Scott Brown at 7:30 am - polls were dead.

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... ott_brown/

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    voted for Scott Brown at 7:30 am - polls were dead.

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... ott_brown/

    That must be a good sign for Brown.

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
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    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • ShawshankShawshank Posts: 1,018
    If Brown wins, this will be a decent gauge for the rest of the country. It will show that Democrats are losing the support of Independents, which is a critical group for both parties. Granted, you always have idiots that vote strictly R or D across the board, but it's the Independents the drive most of these elections.
  • g under p wrote:
    voted for Scott Brown at 7:30 am - polls were dead.

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... ott_brown/

    That must be a good sign for Brown.

    Peace

    I would guess it is going to be a low turnout... both seem to be pretty shitty candidates.
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  • voted for Scott Brown at 7:30 am - polls were dead.

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... ott_brown/

    I just voted and it is snowing. It will be interesting to see what role, if any, the inclement weather plays on today's election.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    I've been hearing reports of very high turnouts from some towns and low turnouts in others, however there are some local elections also happening today so that might be part of it.

    It's looking like a classic suburb vs. city showdown. I live out in the suburbs, and there's no virtually no Martha Coakley yard signs near where I live, but I've seen plenty of Scott Brown signs in yards, some big signs on the backs of pick-up trucks, and many people standing by the road holding Brown signs at intersections and such. The only Coakley sign I've seen near home is in front of a public school. But I work in Boston, and once I got off the highway during my commute this morning, I saw a huge group of people with Coakley signs and no Scott Brown signs anywhere.

    The turnout for Brown seems like it will be much higher in the suburbs than I've seen for Republicans in the past, including Mitt Romney, who was elected governor with 55%........ it's not looking good.
  • IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,727
    The Massachusetts special election continues to amaze. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley has taken a swipe at Fenway Park fans:
    Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.

    “As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that.

    Well yes, politicians go out to meet the voters even if it means standing out in the cold. At least politicians who want to win in Massachusetts.

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  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,915
    The Massachusetts special election continues to amaze. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley has taken a swipe at Fenway Park fans:
    Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.

    “As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that.

    Well yes, politicians go out to meet the voters even if it means standing out in the cold. At least politicians who want to win in Massachusetts.

    So Coakley is a horrible candidate? Thanks for the breaking news.
  • IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,727
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    The Massachusetts special election continues to amaze. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley has taken a swipe at Fenway Park fans:
    Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.

    “As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that.

    Well yes, politicians go out to meet the voters even if it means standing out in the cold. At least politicians who want to win in Massachusetts.

    So Coakley is a horrible candidate? Thanks for the breaking news.

    No problem - oh wait I'm the thread starter.

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  • Amazing, isnt it???

    How the Healthcare Reform Bill.....
    Could possibly come down....

    To one election....
    Involving 2 candidates....
    That 99% of the nation, has never fucking heard of......

    Strange little country we live in.......
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
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