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Turns out that independent voters, a majority of the Bay State electorate and a crucial ingredient in Obama’s historic presidential win 14 months ago, abandoned him in droves. As in last November’s Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, independents seemed disaffected that they’d voted in 2008 for a more moderate Obama than he turned out to be in 2009.
Well, at least Fred Smerlas will be happy. I’m so proud to be a Massachusetts native!
I should add this, however: we should all be counting our blessings that it isn’t Curt Schilling. I was smelling a narrow Schilling by-election victory, followed by the inevitable unstoppable Palin/Schilling ticket in 2012. It would have been awesome, with altar calls in the White House press room and Tim Lahaye as Treasury Secretary… well, who knows, it might still happen.
Tags: Elections, Scott Brown, Senate
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The only thing that surprises me more than MA electing a Republican senator is seeing Fred Smerlas name-checked on this blog!
On a Palin/Schilling ticket, we’ll probably end up having to pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and sing “Onward Christian Soldiers” before baseball games.
With David Brooks as Ambassador to Haiti…
I still cannot believe that that hack Scott Brown is our Senator. So many people jumped on the whole “hey I’m a working class guy with a pick up truck” band wagon, forgetting that the guy owns a mansion in Wrenthem, three condos in Boston, a summer house in New Hampshire, a time share in Aruba, is married to a newscaster, and sent both of his daughters to prep school. It is unfortunate the Democrats could not have found someone better than Martha Coakley. While I think she would have been fine as a Senator, she seemed so clueless when it came to campaigning. She said that she saw no reason leaving Boston because what good would it do to meet strangers, and aides said she felt uncomfortable in the stop light. Then why would she run?
Hopefully some form of financial regulation and environmental reform can still be passed even with that giggling “hey I know Doug Flutie!” asshole in the Senate.
Undecided voters to me seem more like undereducated and uninformed rather than independent serious thinkers. Could Obama have started out his presidency in a more moderate fashion?
A sad day for Massachusetts indeed.
Anybody make any “Blame me, I’m from Massachusetts” bummper stickers?
Pardon to those too young to know what I am referencing.
I lived in MA as a child and my parents did indeed vote for McGovern.