Comments on: The Lion won’t be sleeping tonight http://www.andyanonymous.com/in-the-news/the-lion-wont-be-sleeping-tonight/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jamie http://www.andyanonymous.com/in-the-news/the-lion-wont-be-sleeping-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-3004 jamie Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:40:50 +0000 http://www.andyanonymous.com/?p=120#comment-3004 I've spent the last week (yes we've known for weeks that he was going to win) trying to figure what whent wrong. These are some of the things i've come up with... (1) Scott did a better job than any pol. i've ever seen at convincing the public that he is an independat canidate, that was only running on the republican ticket.... Mass has more independant voters than republican + democrat combined... Here was a guy speaking TO ME... FOR ME... an independant. Everyone was so busy being happy that someone was speaking for them, no body listened (no I didn't vote for him) (2) Everyone seems to have linked health care reform... with the bail out??? Obama's first move was such a flop (no fault of his ... the ecconomy was going down in flames, he even said it wouldn't work, no one knew what a flop it would be) it was east to plant the seed in peoples heads. see daily show skit from 01/19... classic (3)Coakley just plain took it for granted... Did anyone see a Coakley sign? anything? I was in Hyannis over the weekend (brown took it by the way) On a bet with my wife we drove aroung for an hour, and i couldn't find one coakley sign !!!! Not one !!! in Kennedy's hometown ??? I’ve spent the last week (yes we’ve known for weeks that he was going to win) trying to figure what whent wrong. These are some of the things i’ve come up with…
(1) Scott did a better job than any pol. i’ve ever seen at convincing the public that he is an independat canidate, that was only running on the republican ticket…. Mass has more independant voters than republican + democrat combined… Here was a guy speaking TO ME… FOR ME… an independant. Everyone was so busy being happy that someone was speaking for them, no body listened (no I didn’t vote for him)
(2) Everyone seems to have linked health care reform… with the bail out??? Obama’s first move was such a flop (no fault of his … the ecconomy was going down in flames, he even said it wouldn’t work, no one knew what a flop it would be) it was east to plant the seed in peoples heads. see daily show skit from 01/19… classic
(3)Coakley just plain took it for granted… Did anyone see a Coakley sign? anything? I was in Hyannis over the weekend (brown took it by the way) On a bet with my wife we drove aroung for an hour, and i couldn’t find one coakley sign !!!! Not one !!! in Kennedy’s hometown ???

]]> By: Angelina http://www.andyanonymous.com/in-the-news/the-lion-wont-be-sleeping-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-3000 Angelina Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:33:59 +0000 http://www.andyanonymous.com/?p=120#comment-3000 Seeing the Massachusetts town by town map results is shocking. It's just. So. Red. And the votes Brown received from my city (65%) is completely unexpected. Sadly, I knew he was going to win. I am still surprised by how close the numbers were at the end of the night, though. A month ago, the people were still behind Coakley but it seems like once January hit, it slowly began to become a whole new ball game. Watching the coverage last night, Democratic voter after life-long Democratic voter informed the reporter that they had voted for Scott Brown. The reason most often offered up; they were sick of/disgusted by the negative ads. Now it's on to continuous coverage of the finger pointing. Seeing the Massachusetts town by town map results is shocking. It’s just. So. Red. And the votes Brown received from my city (65%) is completely unexpected.

Sadly, I knew he was going to win. I am still surprised by how close the numbers were at the end of the night, though. A month ago, the people were still behind Coakley but it seems like once January hit, it slowly began to become a whole new ball game. Watching the coverage last night, Democratic voter after life-long Democratic voter informed the reporter that they had voted for Scott Brown. The reason most often offered up; they were sick of/disgusted by the negative ads.

Now it’s on to continuous coverage of the finger pointing.

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