rssMA-Sen: Obama Backers Splitting Between Brown and Coakley
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 2:21 pm
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QUINCY, Mass. — In this city a few minutes south of Boston, working-class voters were splitting between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown.
“I always vote Democratic,” said Frank Creighton, a construction worker who voted with his wife Patty at a polling place in St. John the Baptist church. “Brown doesn’t have a chance. The Democrats are gonna take care of it.” Both Creightons said they’d supported Coakley in the primary, and while she’d run a lackluster campaign, Brown simply rubbed them the wrong way.
Eddie Beck had the opposite take. “I voted for Obama and I’m voting for Brown,” he said. “I know it’s only been a year, but there are too many broken promises.” An independent who usually voted Democratic, he said he was strongly considering switching to the GOP.
At 2 p.m., turnout in the 2nd ward was running around 25 percent so far, out of around 1,400 people per precinct.
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Comment posted January 19, 2010 @ 3:43 pm
A person who normally votes Democratic, voted for Obama, and is disappointed in the “broken promises” so he's voting for a Republican and considering switching to the GOP?
That's like someone being told that they have lung cancer and then deciding to take up smoking as a rebuke to the doctor.
Comment posted January 19, 2010 @ 4:49 pm
I was under impression that the “working class voters” in south-of-Beantown suburbs were gonna be Brown's strength thanks to that beat-up pick-up truck. Based on turnout in Quincy, doesn't sound like that's happening.
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Comment posted January 19, 2010 @ 8:43 pm
A person who normally votes Democratic, voted for Obama, and is disappointed in the “broken promises” so he's voting for a Republican and considering switching to the GOP?
That's like someone being told that they have lung cancer and then deciding to take up smoking as a rebuke to the doctor.
Comment posted January 19, 2010 @ 9:49 pm
I was under impression that the “working class voters” in south-of-Beantown suburbs were gonna be Brown's strength thanks to that beat-up pick-up truck. Based on turnout in Quincy, doesn't sound like that's happening.
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Comment posted July 26, 2010 @ 10:04 am
That's like someone being told that they have lung cancer and then deciding to take up smoking as a rebuke to the doctor.
Comment posted July 27, 2010 @ 3:42 pm
FRANK CREIGHTON OF QUINCY MASS, APPEARS MOTIVATED, AND YET
HE LACKS RESPONSABILITY BECAUSE HE HAS LEFT PROPERTY ABANDONED , AND REFUSES TO TAKE RESPONSABILITY.
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