Via the Herald, which I think yesterday had a front-page story subtitled "Scott Brown's shadow to blot out sun," comes the drop-everything news that Barack Obama, Scott Brown related.
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By adamg - 1/27/10 - 7:55 am
The Outraged Liberal notes a Washington Bureau preview of Obama's state-of-the-union address buys into the national-press mantra that the recent Senate election was all about health care when the Globe's homies in Boston are busy writing there were other issues involved:
... Maybe they should get out of Washington and come home a little more often. Or at least read their own paper. ...
By adamg - 1/24/10 - 5:44 pm
Yes, of course, somebody has put up a Web site to demand Brown produce a copy of his birth certificate. Specifically, Paul Day of Watertown.
By adamg - 1/23/10 - 1:13 pm
Jay Fitzgerald cautions the Senator Elect against the tidelet of enthusiasm for him as a national candidate:
Is Brown the next Duke, Tsongas, Kerry and Romney? ... [T]hey're handy local reminders why Brown shouldn’t go down the constant-campaign road: Duke, '88; Tsongas, '92; Kerry, '04 and Romney, '08. One might as well add Weld and Cellucci to the list, if you’re counting all the annoying Massachusetts pols who mentally checked out early on us. ...
By adamg - 1/22/10 - 4:24 pm
William Hudak, who tweeted and ran online ads promoting an endorsement from Scott Brown, posted a retraction today:
Bill Hudak, Republican Candidate for Congress, extends his formal apology to U.S. Senator-elect Scott Brown and for endorsement quotes contained in a campaign press release which were attributed to, but not made by, the newly elected Senator, and retracts the statements.
By adamg - 1/22/10 - 1:35 pm
Bob LeLievre breaks down Coakley's large win in Boston by neighborhood, along with comparisons to 2006 numbers for Deval Patrick. Some interesting numbers: She lost South Boston, barely took West Roxbury, Charlestown and Tom Menino's redoubt of Readville, but got 96% of the vote in Mattapan and 92% in Roxbury.
By adamg - 1/21/10 - 2:07 pm
Rob Sama pulls together the numbers, shows why even Barney Frank might have reason for concern.
By adamg - 1/21/10 - 8:55 am
Hudak and BrownUPDATE: The Brown campaign says it had nothing to do with an endorsement posted on Hudak's site. Dan Kennedy has the latest.
Our Senator-elect yesterday endorsed William Hudak of Boxford in his race against US Rep. John Tierney.
As Dan Kennedy reports, Hudak put up large signs in front of his house in 2008 showing Obama as Osama and believes Obama was born in Kenya. Kennedy says it's possible Brown didn't know Hudak thinks the president is illegally in office:
The question now is whether Brown has the guts and integrity to admit he made a mistake and withdraw his endorsement of Hudak.
By adamg - 1/20/10 - 7:57 pm
Richard Howe posts some interesting Lowell numbers: Brown got only a few more votes yesterday than McCain did in 2008. But Coakley got fewer than half the votes Obama did:
... The Obama vote stayed home, and did not have to transfer to Brown for him to carry Lowell. ...
By adamg - 1/20/10 - 12:53 pm
Tom Flanagan tweets maps showing towns north of Boston that voted heavily for Brown also have "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" high on their Netflix queues.
Via Aaron Cohen.
By adamg - 1/20/10 - 1:04 am
Look at the town-by-town results on boston.com and the results are pretty dramatic: Coakley basically won inside 128, the Rte. 2 corridor, the Berkshires western end of the state, Springfield and Worcester. Brown won pretty much everything else (but Flutie failed to carry Natick for Brown, so there is that). Suburbs basically beat the cities (except Lowell, which Brown took).
By adamg - 1/19/10 - 11:23 pm
Republican bloggers are, obviously, more in the mood to party than analyze tonight (in fact, Red Mass. Group is liveblogging from the Brown victory party), while Democratically inclined bloggers are more inclined to analyze how the bluest state in the nation just sent a conservative Republican to Washington:
Boston Maggie: How does it feel? It feels good.
By adamg - 1/19/10 - 8:01 pm
Dave Beard at boston.com tweets at 9:15 that Coakley has called Brown to concede.
Channel 5: 52-47 Brown with 92% of precincts reporting, 9:46 p.m.
Boston results - Coakley, 69-30 at 9:40.
By david_yamada - 1/14/10 - 8:51 am
If Scott Brown manages to pull off a stunning upset on Tuesday, what will be the ramifications?
1. Galvanize the GOP Nationally -- A Brown win would galvanize the GOP nationally. The symbolic value of a conservative Republican taking the seat held for decades by arch enemy Ted Kennedy in a historically Democratic state would be earth shattering. It would open the conservative fundraising spigots and pump steroids into the GOP base less than two years after it was on the ropes in the wake of the 2008 election.
By GarrettQuinn - 1/12/10 - 5:09 pm
Last night before the final debate in the campaign to fill the vacant US Senate seat the usual show of force by both candidates appeared outside UMASS Boston.
One of Coakley's supporters said he was voting for Scott Brown but said he couldn't pass up the $50 to hold a sign for her.
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