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Wow: Charlie Cook moves Barney Frank’s seat from “likely Democratic” to “lean Democratic” GO SEAN!!
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/28/whoa-charlie-cook-moves-barney-franks-seat-from-likely-democratic-to-lean-democratic/ ^ | Allahpundit

Posted on 10/29/2010 7:28:56 PM PDT by A_Cougar

Remember, as of just a few weeks ago, this seat wasn’t even on the board. Then, for the first time in decades, MA-4 popped up in the “likely Democratic” column. And now, if you’ll pardon the pun, it’s moved a bit further to the right. I was thinking yesterday after I wrote that post about Bielat’s internal polling that maybe it wasn’t what it was cracked up to be: The topline number was conspicuously omitted (why would a pollster ever do that?) and the data was 10 days old (are the more recent numbers so grim that they had to leak stale ones?). In hindsight, I thought, they were probably trying to put the best face on an increasingly bad situation. But now here comes Cook with the best news I’ve heard all day — to the point where I wonder if, miracle of miracles, we might actually see this seat in the “toss up” column come Monday. My friends, the wave is upon us.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; barneyfrank; ma2010; sourcetitlenoturl
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YES indeed....The wave is upon us!
1 posted on 10/29/2010 7:29:00 PM PDT by A_Cougar
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To: A_Cougar

Its really beyond me how anyone but the most brain-dead lefties could vote for Frank. But then Frank’s district is specifically designed to include such individuals.


2 posted on 10/29/2010 7:32:18 PM PDT by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: A_Cougar

Expect Barney Frank’s homo lover to heckle him outside his house like he did on Bielat..


3 posted on 10/29/2010 7:32:18 PM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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To: A_Cougar

What are the numbers???


4 posted on 10/29/2010 7:32:36 PM PDT by avacado
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To: A_Cougar

Its really beyond my comprehension that ANYONE could still vote for Barney. After everything he’s done, and he still has a lead?


5 posted on 10/29/2010 7:34:43 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
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To: avacado

Instead of going through the various polls, I’ll post this analysis from Cook editor David Wasserman:

Very few 30-year incumbents release a poll one day showing them leading 56% to 37%, then take $200,000 out of their retirement plan to fund their race. Then again, very few incumbents are Barney Frank. Multiple media polls taken since then have shown the Financial Services chairman under 50%, including a Boston Globe survey showing Frank leading Marine Corps Reservist Sean Bielat 46% to 33%, with a high number of undecided independents. That makes some sense after Frank has endured a rough spate of press, including his camera-wielding partner’s awkward confrontation of Bielat.

Bielat has raised an astounding $600,000 in the first two weeks of October (more than his campaign had raised the whole year prior). Obviously the cash is mostly flooding in from outside the district, but it means Bielat has the resources to play David versus Frank’s Goliath on the airwaves in the final week. One ad set to steel drums intones, “While you were worried about your job or mortgage, Barney Frank was on his way to the islands on a private jet owned by a Wall Street fat cat who got millions in bailouts.” This is an extremely Democratic district, and Frank is still the favorite, but it’s a race.


6 posted on 10/29/2010 7:36:15 PM PDT by A_Cougar
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One ad set to steel drums intones, “While you were worried about your job or mortgage, Barney Frank was on his way to the islands on a private jet owned by a Wall Street fat cat who got millions in bailouts.”

I usually groan at most political ads, but this one makes me laugh. It's very well done, and it's effective--you listen to it and just can't deny the facts and the impact.

I don't think Beilat would be even this close if Barney hadn't panicked and lent himself that money--it made people think "What does he know that we don't?" (The answer being, of course, "Not much.")

7 posted on 10/29/2010 7:44:07 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist, conservative Bostonian)
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To: A_Cougar

Rush reported a few days ago that Barney Frank’s seat was unsafe.


8 posted on 10/29/2010 7:44:59 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Barney Frank’s seat was unsafe.

That's why I always use the paper strips before I sit.

9 posted on 10/29/2010 7:49:54 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Don't just hope for change, work for change in 2010.)
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To: A_Cougar

Having lived back east years ago, I have some understanding of these liberal sanctuary perversion districts, like Pelosi’s home snake nest.

But I know that even in these places families are trying to get ahead.

Vote for the cleanest way out of this mess!


10 posted on 10/29/2010 7:52:16 PM PDT by One Name
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To: A_Cougar

If this wave ends up being less than 50 net... if it’s only in the 40s, say... the press will start chanting, “Ah, normal mid-term, move-along-nothing-to-see-here”

In order for this election to have decisive historic impact, more than a few of the old guard must be thrown out. Much as I would like Frank to be this year’s Tom Foley, I fear it is such a gerrymandered kind of sinecure seat, so common now, that we will have to put up w/ types like him until they retire/decease.


11 posted on 10/29/2010 7:59:46 PM PDT by ash-housewares
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

:)


12 posted on 10/29/2010 8:05:52 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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The voters are going to do to Fwank what Bawney has done to America for years.

Pray for the Election


13 posted on 10/29/2010 8:09:51 PM PDT by bray (A November to Remember)
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To: A_Cougar

Great news that it’s becoming this close but “frankly” it’s amazing that Bawney hasn’t been tarred and feathered (he’d probably enjoy that!) long ago for his role in causing the financial crisis.

I’d hate to be Bawneys boyfriend these past few weeks...well, anytime for that matter.


14 posted on 10/29/2010 8:24:10 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: ash-housewares
Scott “Snot” Brown won this CD in January. The Sean signs outnumber the Bwaney signs in Newton, Bwaney’s hometown, by about 16:1. I know, because I live next to Newton and drive through it nearly every day.

Too many people with money have been burned by Bwaney’s policies - the aforementioned scene in Newton goes a long way to prove this. Sean wins by 2-4%. I've been saying this for ~6 weeks, and I stand by it.

15 posted on 10/29/2010 8:34:56 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Support and vote for Sean Bielat (MA-4)! MA-4 is Barney Frank's district.)
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To: A_Cougar

I think the Scott Brown election has shown that Barney Frank’s seat was in jeopardy. I don’t know if Frank will lose the seat but it is obvious that many more people today in Mass. than in the past have had enough of the Democrats and their trashing of the country. In particular, they’ve had enough of Barney Frank.


16 posted on 10/29/2010 8:46:21 PM PDT by StormEye
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WAKE UP EVERYBODY! IT’S NOT OVER. THERE ARE 3 MORE DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE GO TO seanbielat.org and give Sean’s campaign $10 to help finish off Barney.


17 posted on 10/29/2010 8:46:32 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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The voters are going to do to Fwank what
Bawney has done to America for years.

Ewww...I certainly hope not!


18 posted on 10/29/2010 8:58:51 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my plan...So just die (quicky), please & save $$$$ :^)
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To: A_Cougar

New breaking Update...Barney Frank’s seat is now moving from “leaning” to “bending over” !!!


19 posted on 10/29/2010 9:06:19 PM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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New breaking Update...Barney Frank’s seat is now moving from “leaning” to “bending over” !!!


20 posted on 10/29/2010 9:06:26 PM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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