Is...is a Republican seriously going to win a Senate seat in MASSACHUSETTS?

[Solid Snake]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34923900/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

...Okay, okay.

There's an easy explanation for this.

The heavy urban areas...like Boston and Springfield...are going to be among the last votes and precincts counted, and they're going to vote for Coakley in overwhelming numbers.

...That's...that's the only reasonable explanation as to how this Senate vote is so close. This is Massachusetts, for Heaven's sake. The most liberal bastion of liberalism this country has ever seen. Seriously. Massachusetts. Heartbeat of the liberal northeast. Way back when I was a dedicated conservative I hated Massachusetts because it always voted Democratic. (But I did love them for their Red Sox.)

...if this Senate seat is lost the Democrats are in for a very rough 2010.

[Mesden]

The democrats are in for a very rough 2010 no matter what because they're democrats.

[Bells]

Why not? i Heard the republican candidate is swinging some Pipe.

It's kinda silly linking back to the dailyshow, but they did have a nice piece about just that...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-18-2010/mass-backwards

Overall, this is not a real issue for me because i don't live in the US. But seeing the Obama adminsitration so helpess to do anything while having the majority is really unsettling

[Wigmund]

The Republican won (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34923900/ns/politics-capitol_hill/)...

[Sky Warrior Bob]

From what I heard, when Coakley was announced she dominated the polls for Kennedy's seat, then she took time off initially & didn't bother to campaign. Plus, it didn't help that the Democratic party really hasn't been generating any money for her up until the last minute.

In terms of this seat, I think the Democrats just took it for granted it'd be an easy win. 2010 will of course mean that the Democrats will likely loose some seats, but I doubt they'll lose control of either house. They just will have to do a lot more negotiating with Republicans who, thus far, don't seem too open to the idea.

Of course, from what I'm seeing it still could end up being close enough to end up in recount hell. Look how long it took Franken to end up in Washington.

SWB

[Solid Snake]

Well, I guess it's not that big of a deal. Brown only gets to hold the Senate seat for the remainder of Kennedy's term, which ends in January 2013. In November 2012, a Democrat will most likely defeat him. Massachusetts won't stay in Republican hands long.

Still I mean what's shocking here is, as noted by Jon Stewart: back when the Republicans controlled the Presidency and they had a majority in the House and Senate (smaller than 59-41) didn't it feel like they were in control? For better or, perhaps more often, for worse, Bush and his NeoCon cronies generally got what they wanted. Why doesn't it feel like the Democrats are in control of...well...anything?

EDIT: What's hysterical is that if it's revealed twenty years from now that pharmaceutical companies were involved in a massive plan to rig this election I would not be remotely surprised. Remotely surprised. If you told me I'd even suspect the possibility of such shenanigans a few years ago, I'd laugh in your face.

[POS Industries]

The democrats are in for a very rough 2010 no matter what because they're pussies.
Fixed for clarification.

I mean, honestly? This senate seat hullabaloo wouldn't be as important if the Democrats had acted like a real big boy pants political party and used their supermajority to get things pushed through properly. And I don't even mean this healthcare stuff. Guys like Lieberman and Baucus weren't going to let that through anyway. I mean smaller progressive stuff that the Democrats can largely agree on like repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell or reinstating Glass-Steagall so we don't have another banking fallout like this one. John Fucking McCain had to be the one to get on the ball about the latter, by the way, after a damned year of no one else in Congress getting to it.

The Green Party or whoever can feel free to step up and take over the position of major liberal party anytime now because I am officially sick of the Democrats' bullshit.

[McTahr]

Hmm? (http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/fishy-ballot-in-cambridge/)

Now I'm not the biggest person on conspiracy theories, but it is an interesting coincidence.

[Loyal]

Way back when I was a dedicated conservative I hated Massachusetts[...];(

Party affiliations aside, I'm not sure I'd want that woman representing my state anyway.

[01d55]

I dunno how much that woman got paid to throw the election but my guess is that she is set for life.

You might think I'm crazy but taking money in exchange for losing is basically all anyone in the Democratic party ever does. That pack of cowards and losers doesn't rise to the top of a major party by accident or by political skill, they get there through the concerted efforts of the elite executive class.