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Old 01-20-2010, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Oxygen Ln. AZ
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A huge thank you to MA voters. I love it when the right and the left meet in the middle to actually work to solve problems. The shake down from the progressives has to stop.
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Old 01-20-2010, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Louisiana
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What does that mean, exactly? How is he "pro-marriage" and what do you expect him to do to prove it?
Maybe you ought to go to Brown's site and check it out for yourself instead of playing devil's advocate to every positive statement made in this thread.

Democrats are sore losers, we've all known that for decades; they steal lots of elections too, so, perhaps there was some divine intervention here to keep that from happening this time. Maybe it's an omen for the future.
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Old 01-20-2010, 02:53 PM
 
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A large block of Independents voted for him; they had to or he wouldn't have won.
That would have been the case if Coakley had won. Only about 1/3 of the voters in Massachusetts are registered as Democrats.

51% of Massachusetts voters aren't registered with either party.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=afV47bHRiWaA
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Old 01-20-2010, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Mass is the first state where the people have been allowed to vote on obamacare and his other policies - obviously, he is failing miserably and I imagine if the voters across the nation were allowed to have a referendum on his policies like Mass did...the results would be shocking.
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Old 01-20-2010, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Upstate NY!
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Finally, a large enough group of voters saw past the "-R" or "-D" appendix after their name. What a concept!
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How so? Scott Brown is a Republican, and a majority voted for him. How does that prove that people saw past the "R" or the "D" after the candidates' name?

If he had run and won as an independent, I could see how your claim would be true, but he didn't.
Meaning that many of the "D's" voted for an "R". For a state that is so overwhelmingly "D"...the chances of any candidate with an "R" or an "I" were slim. But they pulled it off.

Great job, Massachusetts voters!
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Old 01-25-2010, 10:05 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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wrong analysis. the truth is many Independents voted for Brown; this was not a case of Dems crossing party lines to vote Republicans. A majority of registered voters in Massachusetts are registered as Independent.

[quote=jfkIII;12534639]Meaning that many of the "D's" voted for an "R". For a state that is so overwhelmingly "D"...the chances of any candidate with an "R" or an "I" were slim. But they pulled it off.
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