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Brown vs. Coakley: The Week that Will Change Politics

By Phil

I have been highlighting numerous stories here at The Right Side of Life that show how this week — and, specifically, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 — will be changing the political landscape as the Massachusetts special election culminates in a pick for US Senate. Even if State Senator Scott Brown loses, Congress is well aware of how things have transpired to date.

Who would have thought that a Massachusetts Senate seat — the one held by Ted Kennedy for decades (pardon me: make that “the People’s seat!“) — would literally be up for grabs? Perhaps only in a State that has at least as many unassociated-with-a-major-party voters (read: independents) as there are Republicans and Democrats. And given this kind of political make-up with the general mood of the State being against the current incarnation of federal healthcare legislation pending and spending out of control, it’s no wonder that Lt. Col. Scott Brown is giving the State’s Attorney General a run for her money.

You see, there is a lot that hinges upon Tuesday’s election, including healthcare legislation and the rest of the President’s agenda. How can that be? Quite simply, in terms of the Democrat party, the majorities to which they’ve attained, to date, are as good as they’re ever going to be; that means that if things don’t get done this year, they probably aren’t going to get done, regardless of any future electoral losses.

Given this setup for the week, here are some more headline-makers regarding this story to keep your interest piqued:

From HotAir and InsideMedford, Scott Brown continues to be ahead by roughly 9.6%. This continues to affirm previously-reported polling models.

HotAir is also reporting that the White House is “quietly” predicting a Coakley loss:

And apparently there was quite the juxtaposition between today’s main rallies (per InstaPundit):

A REPORT FROM THE SCOTT BROWN RALLY AT WORCESTER: ?It?s an absolute mob scene. The police have closed off the streets. It?s mind blowing. The hall is already full, and it holds 3,000 people. There may be another 1,000 people outside.?

Meanwhile, reader Sean Fitzpatrick writes: ?Pictures don?t do justice. Nothing like this in Mass since JFK. Worcester rally starts in thirty minutes and the streets are already packed.? Here?s a pic.

Fitzpatrick sends another picture from inside the hall, and comments: ?If the Brown campaign were worried that they wouldn?t fill the hall then they needn?t have. It is standing room only and the hall management is concerned about OVERcrowding.?

Meanwhile, reportedly, Coakley can?t fill a hall. ?Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston. They couldn?t fill the hall. . . . It holds 3,000 and frankly only 2,000 to 2,500 showed up.?

Also, GatewayPundit reports on CNBC’s Jim Cramer’s take on the special election:

NewsBusters has the transcript:

JIM CRAMER, MAD MONEY HOST: We know it?s earnings season. You can no more avoid it than you could avoid getting your report card or worse ? your parents getting your report card. You saw that today when people sold the market on allegedly weak earnings from Intel and JP Morgan, emphasis on allegedly. The Dow getting hurt bad, down a hundred big ones. S&P giving back more than a percent. But that doesn?t mean that the most important factor in next week?s game plan is an earnings report. Far from it. Come with me. The number you need to watch is the number that Scott Brown racks up against Martha Coakley in this amazing Massachusetts Senate race. I say amazing ?cause this was supposed to be a walkover. I mean, even a few weeks ago it was a lock for Democrat Coakley. But now everything?s up in the air, and a Brown win would be devastating for the president?s agenda. Let?s put Brown, okay, and I don?t mean UPS which I happen to own for my charitable trust. Particularly on healthcare reform, because Republican Brown has said he will definitely vote against the plan.

Brown in the Senate? That wrecks the 60-vote supermajority the Democrats have been counting on. It could spell the end for this almost year-long nightmare of a piece of healthcare legislation.

What does a Brown election mean larger than this? Well, first you?re going to get a knee-jerk rally in all the so-called penalized stocks ? the HMOs, the drugs, the medical device-makers. I call it ?knee-jerk,? though, because these stocks have been on fire for months. Look at Cramer fave WellPoint, or United Health. 52 week high. 52 week high. Merck, 52 week high. It?s been clear as a bell that the healthcare reform wasn?t going to affect most healthcare stocks. That?s versus what we thought last year.

More important, though, I think investors who are nervous about the dictatorship of the Pelosi proletariat will feel at ease, and we could have a gigantic rally off a Coakley loss and a Brown win.

It will be a signal that a more pro-business, less pro-labor government could be in front of us. Hey, would you say it is more China like perhaps? No, we can never be as capitalist as the Communist Chinese. But how about a little bit less like the old Soviet Union? Yeah, that would be a bit more like it. Pelosi politburo emasculation! Everything from the banks, which are usually in the Democrats? penalty box, or the oils which are despised by this administration for being carbon, could be propelled dramatically higher all of this Tuesday night.

Related? The Cook Political Report just announced that Scott Brown is now favored in the race. [emphases theirs]

To conclude this update, Eric Dondero over at LibertarianRepublican is promising a full line-up of articles on his site.

See my highlighted coverage under the Category, MA Senate.

-Phil

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Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on January 17, 2010 (boomark / email).