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MA-Sen Photos: ‘Paint the Town Red! Croakley’s Dead!’

By | 01.18.10 | 10:59 am

Below are some photos of yesterday’s “People’s Rally” in Worcester, the rally that Brown held to counter-program the Obama rally in Boston.

MA-Sen: Republicans Celebrate Coakley’s Gaffes in Worcester

By | 01.17.10 | 8:29 pm

WORCESTER, Mass. – “By the way,” said Curt Schilling. “One more thing. I am not a Yankees fan.”

The overflowing crowd at Worcester’s Mechanics Hall on Sunday, expecting the joke, roared in approval. The former Red Sox pitcher, a hero to Massachusetts sports fans for driving the team to an More…

Scott Brown: Hey, Maybe Barack Obama Was Born Out of Wedlock

By | 01.16.10 | 7:50 pm

Democratic candidate Martha Coakley’s Senate campaign in Massachusetts has given up every news cycle this week to a self-inflicted blunder — a fact the National Republican Senatorial Committee happily pointed out to reporters on Friday. But the liberal BlueMassGroup blog has found a video that reflects rather poorly on More…

The Four-Month Supermajority

By | 01.15.10 | 9:03 am

In the final stretch of the Massachusetts special election for Senate, Republican candidate Scott Brown has focused on “restoring balance” to Washington. He’ll be the “41st vote” to filibuster legislation; the Democrats’ hold on 60 votes has let liberals run the country into the ground. “That’s not what the founders More…

Here’s One Show of Support for Scott Brown

By | 01.14.10 | 3:59 pm

This is part of the voicemail that callers get when they’re unable to reach someone at GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown’s campaign headquarters in Massachusetts.

Due to the high demand for lawn signs and bumper stickers, we are currently out. We encourage you to show your support for Senator Brown

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$700,000 + $600,000 for Coakley

By | 01.14.10 | 1:06 pm

The first number is how much Democrats say their Senate candidate in Massachusetts has raised since sending out an email appeal yesterday from Vicki Kennedy, widow of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). The second number is how much MoveOn.org says it’s raised with its own appeal. By comparison, More…

A Strange Scott Brown Gaffe

By | 01.14.10 | 10:44 am

Josh Marshall is all over GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown’s strange statement to reporters that he was “unfamiliar” with the Tea Party movement. Whatever he meant, that’s not true — Brown, like many Republican officeholders, spoke at Tea Party events in 2009, and has counted on their support to More…

An Illegal Ad for Brown?

By | 01.13.10 | 4:10 pm

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is hitting Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown over an ad launched yesterday by a 527 called Americans for Responsible Health Care. The problem? ARHC is a front for Bill Binnie, a wealthy New Hampshire businessman who’s running for Senate in that More…

The First Republican Moneybomb?

By | 01.13.10 | 1:58 pm

In a post making the convincing case that the national interest in the race has hurt GOP candidate Scott Brown’s chance at an upset victory in the Massachusetts, Markos Moulitsas makes a point I hadn’t heard elsewhere.

[H]is moneybomb on Monday was the first real moneybomb conservative activists have

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Rasmussen: Coakley by Two Points in Massachusetts

By | 01.12.10 | 5:00 pm

Rasmussen Reports, whose poll showing Republican candidate Scott Brown sparked the current round of Democratic panic over the Massachusetts Senate race, is out with a poll showing Democratic candidate Martha Coakley up by only two points. The results, with trends:

Martha Coakley (D) – 49 (-1)
Scott Brown More…