RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
'Twould be to laugh, were it not so sad... If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:55:31 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts True, but I see more right-wingers come out really strong for third-party alternatives, which bothers me. It seems the likes of Perot or Paul get all the dissatisfied gun-toting, flag-waving, immigrant bashing white boys who somehow feel they've been treated unfairly every since people of color had the temerity to vote and get gainful employment. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 5:34:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Naght but truth, Keith. As for why so many see left-leaning third- parties as wingnuts, I think that's because, at its core, America as a nation is strongly resistant to change. Hence the push against President Obama, for a best example. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:15:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts And the other thing is, in America recently, third parties that gain any notoriety seem to be more conservative leaning. It's like the so-called independents: so many of them are really closet Republicans to my mind. Of course we have the likes of those who support Jerry Brown, but the liberal-leaning groups seem to be seen as fringe nut groups. It seems that it's usually the ones that are all about some kind mythical perfect America--one that's not all that diverse--that get the traction. I really believe a multi-party system would be better. Do you know, i heard recently about the five-person panel that runs the FCC, and its bylaws state its makeup in terms of Dems and Republicans? What the hey? That's crazy, as if two parties are natural and necessary. I'd like to see a Congress that's more put together like a European parliament. But as say, Martin, Americans are set in their ways, not too imaginative, and way too comfortable putting every single issue in terms of literal left and right, black and white. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:54:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'd love to have one as well, but, as I said before, we're about thirty years away from such. The reason so many of us chortle derisively at the mere mention of a third political party is because, for all the literature they may hand out displaying their platforms, instinctively, one can't help but get the feeling that they probably threw the manifesto together one night over pizza and beer. It needs to be established at the ground level. Let them field candidates for various city and state offices, and let the people of America see their ideas take root, and, more importantly, see if they can actually work. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:05:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm a fan of having a true multi-party system, but I agree in this case. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:48:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I don't know, but I really want to strangle them. It was too close of a race to try for a third party. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Sitting on the board of some big company, enjoying being out of politics. He would've been a better choice than Coakley. Heck, he'd be a better choice for the NY Senate seat than Harold Ford, Jr, who's being propped up by the blue Dogs to run against Senator Gillibrand. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:15:38 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Maybe she didn't want the job? She may have been pushed into the position. Or maybe things are a lot dirtier at the top? What is Mario Cuomo up to nowadays? On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: She evidently actually made a statement of exasperation where she said something to the effect of What did you want me to do? Stand outside Fenway in the rain handing out flyers? John Stewart on the Daily Show responded, I got this...yeah!! Not to be too fine a point on her lack of polish and charisma, but did you hear any part of her concession speech? She actually said There'll be two dogs that are very happy to have us back home! WTF? She lost a critical, critical seat, and her lame attempt at the silver lining is that her *dogs* will be happy to see her back at the house?? Man, Brown didn't win this seat--it was given to him. The only hope I can have is that he's a moderate, not another raving ultra-conservative nutcase. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:25:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Thee word is that she did the one thing Ted Kennedy, Deity rest him well, would NEVER have done. She took the voters for granted. Kennedy would've been out there, listening to the people and shaking hands, even if her were 50 points ahead in the polls. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:44 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
He just may be. Some reports are that he's already feathered back on some of his more radical stances, enough so to torpedo his chances at a Presidential nimination, which is what the True Wingnuts such as the Drugster were hoping for. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:31:18 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts She evidently actually made a statement of exasperation where she said something to the effect of What did you want me to do? Stand outside Fenway in the rain handing out flyers? John Stewart on the Daily Show responded, I got this...yeah!! Not to be too fine a point on her lack of polish and charisma, but did you hear any part of her concession speech? She actually said There'll be two dogs that are very happy to have us back home! WTF? She lost a critical, critical seat, and her lame attempt at the silver lining is that her *dogs* will be happy to see her back at the house?? Man, Brown didn't win this seat--it was given to him. The only hope I can have is that he's a moderate, not another raving ultra-conservative nutcase. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:25:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Thee word is that she did the one thing Ted Kennedy, Deity rest him well, would NEVER have done. She took the voters for granted. Kennedy would've been out there, listening to the people and shaking hands, even if her were 50 points ahead in the polls. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:44 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Naght but truth, Keith. As for why so many see left-leaning third- parties as wingnuts, I think that's because, at its core, America as a nation is strongly resistant to change. Hence the push against President Obama, for a best example. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:15:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts And the other thing is, in America recently, third parties that gain any notoriety seem to be more conservative leaning. It's like the so-called independents: so many of them are really closet Republicans to my mind. Of course we have the likes of those who support Jerry Brown, but the liberal-leaning groups seem to be seen as fringe nut groups. It seems that it's usually the ones that are all about some kind mythical perfect America--one that's not all that diverse--that get the traction. I really believe a multi-party system would be better. Do you know, i heard recently about the five-person panel that runs the FCC, and its bylaws state its makeup in terms of Dems and Republicans? What the hey? That's crazy, as if two parties are natural and necessary. I'd like to see a Congress that's more put together like a European parliament. But as say, Martin, Americans are set in their ways, not too imaginative, and way too comfortable putting every single issue in terms of literal left and right, black and white. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:54:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'd love to have one as well, but, as I said before, we're about thirty years away from such. The reason so many of us chortle derisively at the mere mention of a third political party is because, for all the literature they may hand out displaying their platforms, instinctively, one can't help but get the feeling that they probably threw the manifesto together one night over pizza and beer. It needs to be established at the ground level. Let them field candidates for various city and state offices, and let the people of America see their ideas take root, and, more importantly, see if they can actually work. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:05:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm a fan of having a true multi-party system, but I agree in this case. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:48:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I don't know, but I really want to strangle them. It was too close of a race to try for a third party. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Nimrods... when will they learn that third-party is a thing at least thirty years in the future? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
True, but I see more right-wingers come out really strong for third-party alternatives, which bothers me. It seems the likes of Perot or Paul get all the dissatisfied gun-toting, flag-waving, immigrant bashing white boys who somehow feel they've been treated unfairly every since people of color had the temerity to vote and get gainful employment. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 5:34:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Naght but truth, Keith. As for why so many see left-leaning third- parties as wingnuts, I think that's because, at its core, America as a nation is strongly resistant to change. Hence the push against President Obama, for a best example. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:15:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts And the other thing is, in America recently, third parties that gain any notoriety seem to be more conservative leaning. It's like the so-called independents: so many of them are really closet Republicans to my mind. Of course we have the likes of those who support Jerry Brown, but the liberal-leaning groups seem to be seen as fringe nut groups. It seems that it's usually the ones that are all about some kind mythical perfect America--one that's not all that diverse--that get the traction. I really believe a multi-party system would be better. Do you know, i heard recently about the five-person panel that runs the FCC, and its bylaws state its makeup in terms of Dems and Republicans? What the hey? That's crazy, as if two parties are natural and necessary. I'd like to see a Congress that's more put together like a European parliament. But as say, Martin, Americans are set in their ways, not too imaginative, and way too comfortable putting every single issue in terms of literal left and right, black and white. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:54:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'd love to have one as well, but, as I said before, we're about thirty years away from such. The reason so many of us chortle derisively at the mere mention of a third political party is because, for all the literature they may hand out displaying their platforms, instinctively, one can't help but get the feeling that they probably threw the manifesto together one night over pizza and beer. It needs to be established at the ground level. Let them field candidates for various city and state offices, and let the people of America see their ideas take root, and, more importantly, see if they can actually work. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:05:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm a fan of having a true multi-party system, but I agree in this case. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:48:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I don't know, but I really want to strangle them. It was too close of a race to try for a third party. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Nimrods... when will they learn that third-party is a thing at least thirty years in the future? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
I'd love to have one as well, but, as I said before, we're about thirty years away from such. The reason so many of us chortle derisively at the mere mention of a third political party is because, for all the literature they may hand out displaying their platforms, instinctively, one can't help but get the feeling that they probably threw the manifesto together one night over pizza and beer. It needs to be established at the ground level. Let them field candidates for various city and state offices, and let the people of America see their ideas take root, and, more importantly, see if they can actually work. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:05:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm a fan of having a true multi-party system, but I agree in this case. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:48:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I don't know, but I really want to strangle them. It was too close of a race to try for a third party. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Nimrods... when will they learn that third-party is a thing at least thirty years in the future? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Glad I could provide it! If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:01:02 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts That's the first big laugh I've had on this topic in 24 hours!!! that jabbering, grinning little thing... really got to me! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:37:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts All he needs is that jabbering, grinning little thing that hops around all about him. But Beck has his own show. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:06:40 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm sure that Jabba the hut is already on the radio celebrating. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started...~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election
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Thee word is that she did the one thing Ted Kennedy, Deity rest him well, would NEVER have done. She took the voters for granted. Kennedy would've been out there, listening to the people and shaking hands, even if her were 50 points ahead in the polls. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:44 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps. Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points. If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election, Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley
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he, not her. Pardon my key-slip, Senator. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:44 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps. Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points. If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election, Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley campaign rally on Sunday. Vicki Kennedy, the senator's widow, called on state Democrats to turn out to save her husband's legacy. We need your help. We need your support. We need you to get out there and vote
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And the other thing is, in America recently, third parties that gain any notoriety seem to be more conservative leaning. It's like the so-called independents: so many of them are really closet Republicans to my mind. Of course we have the likes of those who support Jerry Brown, but the liberal-leaning groups seem to be seen as fringe nut groups. It seems that it's usually the ones that are all about some kind mythical perfect America--one that's not all that diverse--that get the traction. I really believe a multi-party system would be better. Do you know, i heard recently about the five-person panel that runs the FCC, and its bylaws state its makeup in terms of Dems and Republicans? What the hey? That's crazy, as if two parties are natural and necessary. I'd like to see a Congress that's more put together like a European parliament. But as say, Martin, Americans are set in their ways, not too imaginative, and way too comfortable putting every single issue in terms of literal left and right, black and white. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:54:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'd love to have one as well, but, as I said before, we're about thirty years away from such. The reason so many of us chortle derisively at the mere mention of a third political party is because, for all the literature they may hand out displaying their platforms, instinctively, one can't help but get the feeling that they probably threw the manifesto together one night over pizza and beer. It needs to be established at the ground level. Let them field candidates for various city and state offices, and let the people of America see their ideas take root, and, more importantly, see if they can actually work. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:05:50 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm a fan of having a true multi-party system, but I agree in this case. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:48:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I don't know, but I really want to strangle them. It was too close of a race to try for a third party. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Nimrods... when will they learn that third-party is a thing at least thirty years in the future? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69
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She evidently actually made a statement of exasperation where she said something to the effect of What did you want me to do? Stand outside Fenway in the rain handing out flyers? John Stewart on the Daily Show responded, I got this...yeah!! Not to be too fine a point on her lack of polish and charisma, but did you hear any part of her concession speech? She actually said There'll be two dogs that are very happy to have us back home! WTF? She lost a critical, critical seat, and her lame attempt at the silver lining is that her *dogs* will be happy to see her back at the house?? Man, Brown didn't win this seat--it was given to him. The only hope I can have is that he's a moderate, not another raving ultra-conservative nutcase. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:25:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Thee word is that she did the one thing Ted Kennedy, Deity rest him well, would NEVER have done. She took the voters for granted. Kennedy would've been out there, listening to the people and shaking hands, even if her were 50 points ahead in the polls. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:44 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff
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Maybe she didn't want the job? She may have been pushed into the position. Or maybe things are a lot dirtier at the top? What is Mario Cuomo up to nowadays? On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: She evidently actually made a statement of exasperation where she said something to the effect of What did you want me to do? Stand outside Fenway in the rain handing out flyers? John Stewart on the Daily Show responded, I got this...yeah!! Not to be too fine a point on her lack of polish and charisma, but did you hear any part of her concession speech? She actually said There'll be two dogs that are very happy to have us back home! WTF? She lost a critical, critical seat, and her lame attempt at the silver lining is that her *dogs* will be happy to see her back at the house?? Man, Brown didn't win this seat--it was given to him. The only hope I can have is that he's a moderate, not another raving ultra-conservative nutcase. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:25:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Thee word is that she did the one thing Ted Kennedy, Deity rest him well, would NEVER have done. She took the voters for granted. Kennedy would've been out there, listening to the people and shaking hands, even if her were 50 points ahead in the polls. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:44 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign
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HOW do these sheeple have such short memories? Do they not remember the Shrub? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:26:05 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts Yeah, that racist old bastard will be chortling with glee. Mark my words: it's more than taking Teddy's seat or even possibly harming healthcare. Getting a young white dude who's an athlete is a godsend to those who've been seeking in vain for someone to hold up as their photogenic great hope. Romney's a Ken doll who's as plastic as his looks, and being a Mormon didn't help...Jendal turned out to be a crushing bore...Palin is nuts (but not going away)...Huckabee's older... I can see them in the backrooms right *now* rubbing their hands with glee over a young, white, handsome, *straight* (far as we know), conservative who they can groom to fight Obama. Hell, dude even said yesterday he looked forward to playing Obama in b-ball--I'd *love* to say the Prez throw some elbows on buddy! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:06:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm sure that Jabba the hut is already on the radio celebrating. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started... ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee
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All he needs is that jabbering, grinning little thing that hops around all about him. But Beck has his own show. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:06:40 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm sure that Jabba the hut is already on the radio celebrating. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started...~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead
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Nimrods... when will they learn that third-party is a thing at least thirty years in the future? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered
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I don't know, but I really want to strangle them. It was too close of a race to try for a third party. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Nimrods... when will they learn that third-party is a thing at least thirty years in the future? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity
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That's the first big laugh I've had on this topic in 24 hours!!! that jabbering, grinning little thing... really got to me! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:37:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts All he needs is that jabbering, grinning little thing that hops around all about him. But Beck has his own show. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:06:40 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm sure that Jabba the hut is already on the radio celebrating. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started... ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation
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I'm a fan of having a true multi-party system, but I agree in this case. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:48:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I don't know, but I really want to strangle them. It was too close of a race to try for a third party. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Nimrods... when will they learn that third-party is a thing at least thirty years in the future? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices
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They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps. Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points. If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election, Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley campaign rally on Sunday. Vicki Kennedy, the senator's widow, called on state Democrats to turn out to save her husband's legacy. We need your help. We need your support. We need you to get out there and vote on Tuesday, Kennedy said. We need you to bring your neighbors. We need you to bring your friends. Brown, who has trumpeted his 30 years of service in the National Guard, hewed to traditional GOP themes at the end of the campaign. He promised at a rally Sunday that, if elected, he would back tax cuts and be tougher on terrorists than Coakley. He
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As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps. Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points. If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election, Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley campaign rally on Sunday. Vicki Kennedy, the senator's widow, called on state Democrats to turn out to save her husband's legacy. We need your help. We need your support.
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Overconfidence that MA wouldn't go red is my guess. Oi. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps. Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points. If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election, Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley campaign rally on Sunday. Vicki Kennedy, the senator's
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Either that or a lot of people didn't go to the voting booth. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They said that MA is 3/4 democrat. That means there were a LOT of people that flipped. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Overconfidence that MA wouldn't go red is my guess. Oi. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Is it snowing? If we had an election here no one would have shown up. We had a pretty serious electrical storm. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Either that or a lot of people didn't go to the voting booth. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said that MA is 3/4 democrat. That means there were a LOT of people that flipped. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Overconfidence that MA wouldn't go red is my guess. Oi. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
We've had nasty weather since yesterday, yeah. People cleaning heavy wet snow with ice frozen around it. Heck, I did too. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Is it snowing? If we had an election here no one would have shown up. We had a pretty serious electrical storm. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Either that or a lot of people didn't go to the voting booth. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said that MA is 3/4 democrat. That means there were a LOT of people that flipped. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Overconfidence that MA wouldn't go red is my guess. Oi. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
I believe so, yeah. I think most of the problem was that enough spin was done that Brown was going to win no matter what and by a landslide that people got apathetic and tuned out. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Do they have absentee voting there? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: We've had nasty weather since yesterday, yeah. People cleaning heavy wet snow with ice frozen around it. Heck, I did too. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Is it snowing? If we had an election here no one would have shown up. We had a pretty serious electrical storm. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Either that or a lot of people didn't go to the voting booth. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said that MA is 3/4 democrat. That means there were a LOT of people that flipped. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Overconfidence that MA wouldn't go red is my guess. Oi. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
That's part of the big plan. Bombard with misinformation until the populace is apathetic. It makes for easy pickings. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: I believe so, yeah. I think most of the problem was that enough spin was done that Brown was going to win no matter what and by a landslide that people got apathetic and tuned out. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Do they have absentee voting there? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: We've had nasty weather since yesterday, yeah. People cleaning heavy wet snow with ice frozen around it. Heck, I did too. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Is it snowing? If we had an election here no one would have shown up. We had a pretty serious electrical storm. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Either that or a lot of people didn't go to the voting booth. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said that MA is 3/4 democrat. That means there were a LOT of people that flipped. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Overconfidence that MA wouldn't go red is my guess. Oi. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Pretty much. :( ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: That's part of the big plan. Bombard with misinformation until the populace is apathetic. It makes for easy pickings. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: I believe so, yeah. I think most of the problem was that enough spin was done that Brown was going to win no matter what and by a landslide that people got apathetic and tuned out. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Do they have absentee voting there? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: We've had nasty weather since yesterday, yeah. People cleaning heavy wet snow with ice frozen around it. Heck, I did too. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Is it snowing? If we had an election here no one would have shown up. We had a pretty serious electrical storm. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Either that or a lot of people didn't go to the voting booth. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They said that MA is 3/4 democrat. That means there were a LOT of people that flipped. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Overconfidence that MA wouldn't go red is my guess. Oi. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
That, and the public's like a rabid dog, just wanting to bite whomever's near... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:03:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts They said on the news that Coakley ran a sloppy campaign. In a state that was mostly democrats how could the democrat candidate lose? Obviously she was asleep at the wheel... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps. Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points. If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election, Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley campaign rally on Sunday. Vicki Kennedy, the senator's widow, called on state Democrats to turn out to save her husband's legacy. We need your help. We need your support. We need you to get out there and vote on Tuesday, Kennedy said. We need you to bring
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign, Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both surprised and frustrated by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps. Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points. If you were fired up
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started... ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
I'm sure that Jabba the hut is already on the radio celebrating. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started... ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) * -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. * * Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation. The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the disturbing incidents raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Yeah, that racist old bastard will be chortling with glee. Mark my words: it's more than taking Teddy's seat or even possibly harming healthcare. Getting a young white dude who's an athlete is a godsend to those who've been seeking in vain for someone to hold up as their photogenic great hope. Romney's a Ken doll who's as plastic as his looks, and being a Mormon didn't help...Jendal turned out to be a crushing bore...Palin is nuts (but not going away)...Huckabee's older... I can see them in the backrooms right *now* rubbing their hands with glee over a young, white, handsome, *straight* (far as we know), conservative who they can groom to fight Obama. Hell, dude even said yesterday he looked forward to playing Obama in b-ball--I'd *love* to say the Prez throw some elbows on buddy! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:06:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm sure that Jabba the hut is already on the radio celebrating. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started... ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special election Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the liberal lion of the Senate who made health care reform the centerpiece of his nearly 47-year Senate career. Kennedy died of brain cancer in August. Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts
Yea they were probably trolling the attendees at their meetings looking for the next great white hope from day one. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Yeah, that racist old bastard will be chortling with glee. Mark my words: it's more than taking Teddy's seat or even possibly harming healthcare. Getting a young white dude who's an athlete is a godsend to those who've been seeking in vain for someone to hold up as their photogenic great hope. Romney's a Ken doll who's as plastic as his looks, and being a Mormon didn't help...Jendal turned out to be a crushing bore...Palin is nuts (but not going away)...Huckabee's older... I can see them in the backrooms right *now* rubbing their hands with glee over a young, white, handsome, *straight* (far as we know), conservative who they can groom to fight Obama. Hell, dude even said yesterday he looked forward to playing Obama in b-ball--I'd *love* to say the Prez throw some elbows on buddy! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:06:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts I'm sure that Jabba the hut is already on the radio celebrating. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: Me and the other 47% will be cringing and wailing in horror. It's already started... ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you for your effort... :( - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Brown Projected for Upset Win in Massachusetts As a Massachusetts resident, all I can say is that I got into that voting booth and voted Coakley. She wasn't perfect but dammit, everyone who voted third party essentially got Brown into office. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Aw damnwell, I guess this may be a wakeup call for some of the Dems who were still fighting the Prez in stuff like health care. Damn... * http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/19/massachusetts.senate/index.html?hpt=T1 *Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) *-- Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results. ** Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting in results from the National Election Pool, a consortium of media organizations including CNN. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, a libertarian who is not related to the Kennedy political family of Massachusetts, had 1 percent. At stake was President Obama's domestic agenda, including health care reform. If Brown upsets Coakley, Republicans will strip Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Final numbers on election turnout are expected to be pretty good despite the wintry weather, said Brian McNiff, a spokesman for the office of Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin. I don't think weather is going to impede too many people from coming out to vote, McNiff said Tuesday. I think the interest in this election will trump any bad weather. Galvin predicted Monday as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to McNiff. iReport: Send us your thoughts on the special electionhttp://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=24330 Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Sen. Ted
