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Morning Maniac Music for the Volunteers Getting Out the Vote Today

By Jeralyn

This is for all the volunteer campaign workers of both candidates in Mass., trying to get out the vote for their candidate.

While BTD wants Coakely to win, I want Coakely to lose. She's too big a risk. The thought of another career prosecutor bent on the old law and order, crime warrior model, is a bigger threat to me than the possibility of losing the House version of the Health care bill. I'm resigned to the health care bill -- a bill that after all the compromising, bears little resemblance to what we progressives initially envisioned. I am not resigned to a Senator who will arrive in DC with alliances already formed with crime bill pushers like DiFi, Joe Biden, and every victims rights group in the nation. How long till we see a crime bill co-sponsored by Coakely and Jeff Sessions? [More...]

The damage Martha Coakley will do to the Bill of Rights, which was designed to protect the citizen accused, not crime victims, over the course of her Senate career, is potentially enormous. Scott Brown is a fly-by, he'll be gone in 3 years, and the first two, he'll still be learning his way to to the bathroom.

Despite what the polls say, I think the monied special interests in the Dem. party, party leaders from Obama to Bill Clinton, and unions from the SEIU to the labor unions, will pull this one out for Martha. I hope I'm wrong.

But props to the volunteers for both, who care enough to get involved and take it to the streets, knocking on doors to get their voters to the polling places.

The candidate with the best ground game should win, regardless of the polls.

If Martha loses, the Dems should think twice next time before selecting their nominee. Even if she wins, she was a disaster of a candidate.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).