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Subscribe to RSSMASSACHUSETTS: Elizabeth Warren officially announced her bid for the Senate. Here’s her launch video, in which she says, in part: "Middle class families have been chipped at, hacked at, squeezed and hammered for a generation now, and I don't think Washington gets it."
But it’s not a coronation. Warren still faces a crowded primary. Alan Khazei, for one, said in this local report: “This is for the voters to decide, it's not for Washington insiders' party elites to decide.” And Mayor Setti Warren: “I've served this country in uniform. I understand the challenges abroad and understand what we have to too here at home to get people back to work.”
“Should Elizabeth Warren be fortunate enough to win the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s US Senate nomination next year, state voters could see an election contest that rivals the concurrent presidential campaign,” the Boston Globe’s Johnson reports, adding: “Not since the Weld-Kerry race in 1996 could Massachusetts see a general election campaign like this. As in that battle royale between two bluebloods, then-Governor William F. Weld and still-Senator John Kerry, the candidates would be well-financed, nationally supported, and adept at debating.”
NEW YORK: The New York Daily News’s cover: “Turner takes Weiner seat.” The Daily News’ Celeste Katz puts the blame on Weprin: “Sure, Obama was a drag. But Democrat David Weprin was his own worst enemy - and his name was on the ballot, not the President's. The race against GOP political novice Bob Turner shouldn't have been close, but Weprin's campaign fumbled it away.”
The New York Post, on the other hand, of course, draws a straight line to President Obama with this cover headline: “Wham Bam!”
The AP: “The national mood has darkened since May, when Democrats scored their own unexpected win in another New York special election. Then, Democrat Kathy Hochul won an upset victory in a heavily Republican district by stressing her commitment to protecting Medicare, the government health plan for seniors. Weprin tried to adopt that strategy, warning that Turner would try to cut programs like Medicare and Social Security. But with unemployment still stubbornly high and voters upset with Washington over the debt ceiling negotiations, the pledge to protect entitlements was less resonant this time.”
Msnbc.com: “In a sharp rebuff to President Barack Obama, Republican Bob Turner won a special House election in New York Tuesday night, giving the GOP a district that Obama had carried with 55 percent in 2008 and which Democrats had held for years. Meanwhile, Republican Mark Amodei won a landslide victory over Democrat Kate Marshall in a U.S. House special election in Nevada, an important presidential swing state.”
The latest AP results: 54%-46% with 449 of 512 districts reporting.
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Obama jumped the weiner
The New York Daily News’s cover: “Turner takes Weiner seat.”
Feisty didnt jump in first on this thread , did she? ...moohahahhah
I'm a little disappointed the Daily News didn't come up with something a little more clever - like "Turner Flips Weiner!"
So are the FR resident lefties going to create their own vortex trying to spin this one or are they going to be unusually quiet because they're running out of ways to convince even themselves that people are still on board with their anointed leader? 3:1 registered democrat majority in the district and a republican STILL pulls out the W? Wow
Suzy-2005071--Remember a few years ago when a Democrat beat a Republican in district #26? A position that had been held by Republicans since about the time of the Civil War. So what does all this mean? Never mind, I think I already know what your answer will be.
NY 26 had a Tea Party candidate that got 10,000 votes, most of which would have gone to the endorsed Republican, who would have then won the seat. What it means is that if you significanlty split the vote for either major party candidate, the other major party will win. Nothing more.
What it means is that if you significanlty split the vote for either major party candidate, the other major party will win. Nothing more.
Wow, exactly right! This is how Maine got its Teapublican governor. An Independent and a Democrat split the moderate vote, and LePage won with 39% of the ballots.
Is "I'm rubber, you're glue" really the argument you want to go with Sue?
Yes, my side does its fair share of spinning, too. I'll readily admit that. But the left seems to have elevated the spin to an art form recently. Rather spectacular to watch when they get going.
Suzy, you're a douzy. A douzy of a spinmeister.
Little bitter? Remember there is always next time.
Alan Khazei, I voted for you in the last senate primary, and Setti Warren, I like you too. But Elizabeth Warren gives us the best chance to wrestle Teddy Kennedy's seat back from center-fold model pretty boy Scottie. I'm happy beyond belief that Ms Warren decided to run, and like I've said before, I'll be contributing to her campaign early and often with my average and threatened middle class income. God speed Elizabeth! With warriors like you in DC, this great nation might yet still stand a chance!
Elizabeth Warren, over-qualified if anything. I agree, God speed Elizabeth!
Congratulation to Turner in the NY election. Another do nothing congressman.
Looks like the country hasn't learned it's lesson about the tea people GOP republicans yet. they keep falling for the buzz words, we can do it, we can balance the budget, we can create jobs, we can put government in your bed rooms, we can keep government out of your lives, look at us we've done nothing for 5 years we can do it for another 4 years. When ask if ever, how they can do all this, their response is we don't have a clue but the voters like our buzz words.
Just remember America, when the corporations and the rich, through the tea people GOP republicans get total control of our country you're on your own. the end of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, all you'll have left is the stock market to rely on for your retirement, and we all know how stable that is. You can take your had earned money and pay some financial institution to gamble on it for you while they take their cut off the top and leave you holding the empty bag. Then as the tea people GOP republicans applaud you can just die because you don't have any health care.
14 months is a long time away. Anything can happen.
I agree Job1 14 months is a long time away. But America has to quit watching Fox (aka tea people GOP republican propaganda machine) and get informed about what the tea people GOP republicans are trying to do to our country.
Don't forget redistricting. Soon these seats may not even exist.
But Dems need to get out the vote, and try to inform the low-information conservatives. That's how NY26th was won--making the choice clear--privatize Medicare to give more to the rich, or vote for the Dem.
Why do you put the bloomberg poll in which is like a rasmussen poll and has no credibility but not the cnn poll released at same time that has very positive responses to plan and facors Obama over repubs. This is biased journalism and is why it is not always the white house messaging but more often media bias in what they report that is a problem. Get a grip.