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Call it a teaching moment. The voters of Massachusetts schooled President Barack Hussein Obama today when they elected Republican Scott Brown to fill the United States Senate seat which had been held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for forty-seven years prior to his death in August 2009.

(If any of you mindless rabble are reading this, stop now. This message is not for you. And reading is really not your thing as you've proven time and again. I will probably use a few big words later and you know how that gives you a headache. So stop reading now. I mean it.) Truth is, the problems this world faces are far more complex and far more difficult to fix than people like Scott Brown can fathom. We know this, don’t we, friends? We understand this, innately. The problems with the banking industry, climate change, energy, healthcare, foreign...

Appearing on Greta Van Susteren's On the Record at about 10 PM EST, just before the Scott Brown victory speech, Sarah Palin gently lectured the Democrats with a phrase that has all the makings of a memorable one-liner. "This is what democracy looks like, Democrats!" Indeed, it is. On a night when Scott Brown cleaned the proverbial clock of Democrat Martha Coakley—whose laughingstock of a campaign basically imploded on itself in the last several days due to all kinds of scandalous revelations—Palin offered her two cents regarding the reasons for Brown's victory, Coakley's loss, and the attitude that Democrats should...

It’s over folks. Not just the Massachusetts Senate election but any Democrat health care reform bill. Democrat’s chances of passing a health care reform bill that looks like anything like we have seen is about zero. The rest of the battle against Democrats till the November election is downhill from here. If you had been watching MSNBC the past few days you could see the democrat party and Obama White House preparing for this humiliating loss. Story after story was about Martha Coakley's coming defeat and about how she screwed up. Last night Chris Matthews did a 2 hour special...

I remember feeling back in November 2008 like the earth had suddenly skidded to a harrowing halt and started spinning precariously in reverse, throwing everything safe and real and decent into oblivion, as if to erase the entire American Century and plunge the nation into the dark ages.I felt that sudden grinding halt again today, but the results were as blissful as an ocean breeze: Almost a year to the day of the inauguration of pResident Barack Obama, Republican Scott Brown shocked the entire country, delivering “Ted Kennedy’s” Senate seat to its rightful owner – the people of Massachusetts.

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The Democratic Party collapsed into a circular firing squad while waiting for election returns from Massachusetts Tuesday, with everyone from Martha Coakley's pollster to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi taking shots at other Democrats. The not-so-implicit premise: Democrats will lose the seat Ted Kennedy held for more than four decades. While Democratic Senate insiders and some White House officials are blaming their own party’s nominee for a lackluster campaign that let Republican Scott Brown frame the race, Pelosi suggested Tuesday that her Senate counterparts shared part of the blame. "We're always in touch with our members," Pelosi said at an afternoon...

When looking for someone to represent you in Congress, what do you normally look for? Is this candidate a proponent of higher economic and personal freedom? Do they support lowering taxes? Will they be a strong voice for his/her constituents? In the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senator, all of these issues are at stake... ========> Check out full piece (from yesterday!) at ATR.org....

Politics aside, you can count Google as a clear supporter of at least one aspect of Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown’s campaign — the use of online media. “He has definitely run a model campaign,” Google spokesman Galen Panger said in an interview with Digits. “He has really adopted every single tool in the Google arsenal.” There’s been a lot of news out today about how Mr. Brown has used social networking tools to help his campaign against Democrat Martha Coakley for a crucial Senate seat in Massachusetts. But amid all the talk of Twitter and Facebook, a slightly less...

Americans for Tax Reform today challenged Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley to defend her support for a tax increase on families with special-needs children. Coakley has endorsed the Senate healthcare bill, which contains a new cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs)--disproportionately raising taxes on these families. Under current law, there is no legal cap on FSA contributions. Most people defer $10 or $20 per paycheck to pay for eyeglasses, co-payments, and non-prescription medication. Many families, however, defer thousands of dollars per year into FSAs to pay for special needs education on a pre-tax basis. The Senate healthcare bill’s $2500 FSA...

I love the way every time Martha Coakley attempts to correct the missteps in her campaign she ends up amplifying them. Portrayed as a hack put up by the party machine who can't be bothered campaigning with real voters, she busses in Obama, Kerry and various minor Kennedys for a rally at a private school. Revealed as a dimwit who can barely string a coherent sentence together on war and foreign policy, she fires back that she only took her position on Afghanistan because the idiot primary voters made her do it. Hammered as the emblem of a lazy out-of-touch...

Title truncated. Real title: Pollster Frank Luntz having difficulty finding Coakley supporters for focus group on election night of Massachusetts senate race. Just about every election night, Republican pollster Frank Luntz assembles a focus group of likely voters to help predict election results. Tonight you can see Luntz interview an assembly of Massachusetts voters on Fox at 9:10 p.m. EST. But you probably won’t see all the work that went into it. As of late this afternoon, Luntz was still scrambling to balance his focus group with supporters of Democrat Martha Coakley. “I just lost another one,” Luntz growled over...

Although false optimism seems to continue on the Democratic side, the polls show a different story. Scott Brown seems, poised to break up the Democratic super majority that has time and again thumbed its noses at the people who elected them to their positions. As you can see, the most recent polls are weighted heavily in Brown's favor. These are mere samplings of likely voters, they in no way tell the whole story. However, for those out there who thought all was lost. For those who thought this awful healthcare bill was going to be forced upon us, there is...

Here is video of MSNBC's Chuck Todd saying that a "nightmare result" for the White House would be "not just a Brown victory, but a Brown victory with a turnout that is more so than the average midterm election." (Video)Chuck Todd said that that "should be truly the wake up call to the Democratic party that this is a bigger problem than maybe they've even appreciated, you can blame the candidate all you want...but bad candidates should be able to win in Massachusetts in a decent political environment." Todd said the fact that Independents are going heavily for Brown "should...

Earlier today, I published a YouTube video that showed a woman handing out blank absentee forms. It was a sign that something fishy may be going on in Massachusetts. Well, in the last hour or so, more reports have surfaced that should be reason for concern. Election Journal reports, for instance, that “reports are pouring in from across the city of Boston that Martha Coakley signs have been placed inside the 150 foot buffer zone mandated by Commonwealth law.” Watch the video at Election Journal. That’s bad, but it’s not nearly as troubling as this article: it appears that the...

<p>According to a top Brown campaign adviser, there are "longer lines outside Boston than inside. Not good sign for Coakley. Scott's voters highly motivated."</p> <p>A Democratic source says get-out-the-vote efforts have been good for Coakley, but adds, "I don't know if the machine gets you 10 points."</p>

1) Election Journal, the website that exposed the New Black Panther Party thugs’ voter intimidation tactics in Philadelphia in November 2008, is on the ground in Massachusetts today. They’ve just posted video of a woman in Lawrence, MA, carrying around blank absentee ballots in Spanish today. She explains how she’s telling people to mark Martha Coakley’s name. The woman handing out the ballots identifies herself as “Isabel Melendez” and says she has a talk show in which she promoted Coakley’s candidacy.

BOSTON--Election Day dawned in Massachusetts with temperatures at freezing and light snow falling across much of the commonwealth. Predictions called for the snow to continue intermittently and mix with rain as temperatures rose, creating what weather forecasters called "a mushy inch or two." The worse the weather, the larger the question of voter motivation looms over the race for a successor to Ted Kennedy in the United States Senate. Democrats are trying to motivate a base of loyal voters alerted--by sinking polls and the 11th hour visit of President Obama on Sunday--to the possible loss of what was widely regarded...

Here is video of Ron Brownstein talking with MSNBC about Martha Coakley and the reasons why he thinks she's behind in the polls. (Video)Brownstein started off by blaming Coakley, he said, "Coakley was a very complacent candidate who settled in for a long winters nap, and when she emerged she didn't leave that many people wondering where she'd been, she wasn't a strong candidate in any way." Brownstein went on to say that the "overlying reality here is that the President's approval rating among white voters is below 40%...in a state like Massachusetts where over 80% of the votes are...

For some reason, Boston's Jules Crittenden is channeling "Anarchy in the U.K." this election morn in Mass: I am an anti-hack! I am an democracist! Know what I want but dunno how to get it I wanna destroy the hackery cos I I wanna BE democracy! Democracy for the MA, it’s coming sometime and maybe . . . Maybe. If you're a Martha Coakley supporter, the Pistols's other hit may seem more pertinent: God save the Queen It's the Democrat machine They made you a moron Ted's seat gaffe-bomb God save the Queen She ain't no human bein' There is...