Chewy Ivan 2 asked:


They claim Obama was the one who lost the race. Does that mean they agree with everything Coakley said on the campaign trail? Conservatives think there are no more terrorists left in Afghanistan? They think Catholics who work in emergency rooms should quit their jobs? They believe Curt Shilling is a Yankees fan?

Why can’t conservatives admit that Coakley ran such a rotten campaign that not even a liberal state like Massachusetts could back her?

Samm asked:


This happens in a State where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1!!!!!

Obama, One term President just like Carter!!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/ma/massachusetts_senate_special_election-1144.html

Geyamala asked:


Republicans in the US, brimming with confidence after the Massachusetts vote this week that led to them winning a Democrat seat, have urged President Obama to change course on health-care reform.
Republicans in the US, brimming with confidence after the Massachusetts vote this week that led to them winning a Democrat seat, have urged President Obama to change course on health-care reform.

The Republican Party has asserted that Massachusetts voters were only reflecting the frustration among Americans with President Obama’s push for health-care reform, to the exclusion of job creation schemes.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=591263

WinonaGal asked:


So, the good people of Massachusetts are supposed to blindly re-elect him, right?
What do you think Frank is responsible for?
Do you think he has done a good or bad job?
What do you think of his opponent? Do you think he/she has a chance?

Mr. Rogers asked:


Great quote from former GOP governor in Massachusetts who helped create a prosperous economy where unemployment was lowered and businesses found Massachusetts to be one of the most business friendly states. I think this a great quote and it’s true. Get off your lazy **** and work.
I’m talking about people on welfare who don’t want to work but **** up hard working tax payers money.

Samuel El asked:


In my opinion, he was an entrenched, sleazy, mobster who avoid ed murder charges,a nd basically bankrupt Massachusetts. His awful lifestyle, alcoholism and obesity contributed to his ill health,,(self-imposed ill health) and he spent 46 yrs in a job that should last 6 or 12 yrs at the most.. Personally, I do not mourn him at all–and only hope someone who isn’t a crook is voted into office to replace him.
Good riddance…what say you?

Michelle Obama asked:


Scott Brown seems to be a moderate John McCain type of republican.

That’s why liberals voted for Brown in Massachusetts he’s a great man i hope he runs for president im a democrat and i would vote for him.

I WISH MORE REPUBLICANS WERE LIKE SCOTT BROWN.

SCOTT BROWN IS A MODERATE ABRAHAM LINCOLN REPUBLICAN.

You can’t handle the truth asked:


you can take the democrat out of the republican name, but you can’t take the democrat out of the Massachusetts republican after he “help Democrats defeat a filibuster orchestrated by GOP leaders by a 62-30 tally”?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100222/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_jobs_7

mission_viejo_california asked:


Blue-State Employment Blues
As long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way.

By Greg Kaza

Bears and partisans are exuberant about the August employment report, which recorded a loss of 4,000 jobs in a labor market that employs 138 million. Employment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was “essentially unchanged,” with losses concentrated in the manufacturing (-46,000) and government (-28,000) sectors. This was no surprise: Manufacturing has contracted in August in eight of the last ten years, dating back to the Clinton era.

Employment is a broad economic indicator, and last Friday’s less-than-stellar report deserves attention. But another monthly BLS report on regional and state employment offers a view of the jobs market through an alternative lens. In particular, this report allows one to compare employment growth between the so-called Blue and Red states.

Political pundits identify 18 bona-fide Blue states, which backed Democrats Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, and 29 clear-cut Red states, which supported Republican President George W. Bush both times out. Blue states are said to be “liberal,” and Red states “conservative.” But there might be another reason to term certain states “blue”: weak employment growth in a period of expansion.

Total Blue-state employment growth has been only 3.3 percent during the current expansion, which began in November 2001, compared with the U.S. rate of 5.5 percent. Meanwhile, total Red-state employment growth has been 7.5 percent, more than double that of the Blue states.

In baseball terms, one might say the Blue team is hitting only 5-for-13 for a mere .277 average, while the Red team is slugging 18-for-29 for a league-leading .621.

Here’s a closer look at the stats:

Job growth has trailed the U.S. average in 13 Blue states. California, the largest Blue-state labor market, fell behind by the narrow margin of less than a half-percent, while growth has been slower in Rhode Island (5%), Minnesota (4.1%), Wisconsin (3.1%), New York (2.8%), New Jersey (2.7%), Pennsylvania (2.7%), Vermont (2.3%), Maine (2.1%), Connecticut (1.5%), Illinois (1.1%), Massachusetts (-0.2%), and Michigan (-5%). The job losses in Michigan and Massachusetts have been the most severe, falling below 2001 levels.

Regionally speaking, this blue-streak continues. The Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions, all predominantly Blue, have trailed the U.S. jobs-growth average. The only Blue region to beat the average has been the West, fueled by above-average jobs gains in Hawaii (15.2%), Washington (9.5%), and Oregon (9%). Two other Blue states — Delaware (5.8%) and Maryland (6.1%) — also have bested the U.S. average.

Now for the Red team:

Of 29 certified Red states, a full 18 have topped the U.S. jobs-growth rate. And here an interesting trend appears: Red states with no income taxes — Nevada (25.7%), Wyoming (15.2%), Florida (13.9%), Alaska (10.2%), Texas (9.1%), South Dakota (8.3%), and Tennessee (5.5%) — have all witnessed above-average job growth.

Not surprisingly, three of four Red regions have led the U.S. in job growth: Red states in the West have expanded 15.9 percent followed by the Plains (7.7%) and the Southeast (7.5%). The only Red region to trail the U.S. jobs-growth average has been the Midwest (1%).

This trend is not new. It has merely been overlooked by the mainstream media. Labor is colorblind in the political context of Red and Blue states. And as long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way.

AreWeThereYet? asked:

the left drops this bombshell 5 weeks before the election in an obvious attempt to grab power. they hide the identity of the 21 year old accuser, in the hopes his identity will not be revealed until after the elections, but in an ABC glitch, his identity is revealed, he was 18 at the time of the dreaded instant messages. Now since the dems are the party of mass *** weddings and the like, (as well as DEMOCRATIC congressman Studds of Massachusetts, who had an actual relationship with his 17 year old paige, won re-election and retired 13 years later), what is the dems point with this one? Is he still a child predator when he hits on 18 year olds? or will the dems come up with other smear jobs in order to grab power, in lieu of actually campaigning ideas and solutions instead of smears? and pray to allah that it sticks?

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmfa.htm