Friday, January 15, 2010
Brown Beating Coakley in Recent Poll
In the latest Suffolk University poll, Scott Brown had 50% of the vote compared to his Democratic opponent for the U.S. Senate seat, Martha Coakley, who had 46%. The poll had a 4.4% margin of error, which means that they're statistically tied in the Massachusetts Senate race. This is incredible considering the ultra liberal climate in Massachusetts, the fact that they have Democratic majorities in both state houses as well as a Demoratic governor and the fact that registered Demcrats outnumber Republicans by three to one.
To date, the Democrats have shoved aside polls showing the pair in a serious race (Rasmussen showed Brown trailing by two) claiming they were right-leaning, but surely this one is getting their attention. The Democrats, and especially, the White House, has to be scrambling to figure out how to win and keep their 60-seat Senate majority to shove through health care reform and other pet domestic projects on Obama's agenda. Some even claim that they will go as far as to stall the certification of Tuesday's results to allow Senate Democrats time to push Obama's "signature legislation through Congress" as Sen. Paul G. Kirk Jr., the interim replacement, says he will vote for the bill if given the chance. I want to believe the White House wouldn't go to this lengths, but you can bet if Scott Brown wins, and they attempt a midnight passage, there will be a mutiny on their hands from which Obama and his party will never recover politically.
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