For Coakley, ominous sign

[FBaggins]

Blue Hill Avenue runs like a vein through the city. It stretches for 4 miles, from River Street in Mattapan to Dudley Street in Roxbury, and a little more than a year ago there was an Obama sign on every block. There were Obama signs in Mattapan barber shops, in the windows of the apartment buildings opposite Franklin Field and Franklin Park, in the restaurants of Grove Hall, in the bodegas near Jermaine Goffigan Park.

Fourteen months ago, there was a buzz on Blue Hill Ave. and the streets that run off it like caterpillar legs. This is the heart of the biggest minority community in the state, and the energy generated by the prospect of Barack Obama becoming president was palpable.

Yesterday, I drove the length of Blue Hill Ave. and counted exactly two Martha Coakley signs. One of them was on a fence next to the Roxbury Energy Gas station, on the corner of Moreland Street. The sign wasn’t properly fastened. It flapped in the wind, revealing a “Mike Flaherty for Mayor’’ sign underneath.

If Martha Coakley loses today, it won’t be because she didn’t put up enough signs on Blue Hill Ave. It’ll be because she failed to convince enough of the people who put up the Obama signs on Blue Hill Ave. and a lot of other avenues across Massachusetts that Obama’s ability to get anything done depends on her winning the election.

More -

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/19/for_coakley_ominous_sign/

[Ian David]

1. What are we going to DO about it?

Make at least five calls from your own home for Martha Coakley, RIGHT NOW: http://www.my.barackobama.com/coakleyn2n

The website will supply you with the names and phone numbers of people in Massachusetts that need to be called today.

Or

Donate to Martha Coakley for U.S. Senate RIGHT NOW: https://coakley.zissousecure.com/contribute/PFP/iandavidb

See also:

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7498975

[blogslut]

2. Sign counting?

Really? Sign counting and the opinion of one guy off the street. More fluff than actual prediction, don'tcha think?

[shoopnyc]

3. BULLCRAP...

....this is a media created thing period.

[luckyleftyme2]

4. GET OUT THE VOTE

Many are being influenced by the media who is really owned by wealthy people that vote for the right! the farce of the media being left is just that-a farce!
the right makes it's bones by stirring the pot to disrupt anything that takes money away from their grubby hands!
I found this and thought it pretty well summed up how the majority feel!
Your search - It was only too easy to demonstrate through the "Simplest of Logic" to even the stuanchist Fundie Voter how they were voting against their own economic self interest by voting RATpubliCON. However they would do it anyway based on what ever "Emotional Issues" the GOP could frame the debate on. Now the RATpubliCONs have succesfully "Framed the Issues" as the "GOP against the Democrat Spending Machine" in light of the MASSIVE deficits and FAILED economic policy of the last administration. Sorry - but I blame the DEMs for not distancing theirselves from their corporate handlers. Make no mistake, the RATpubliCONs will be Pure Disaster should they regain control. But the Dems failed the test when it came time to stand up to Wall St. and fight for the Working Class. If the S&L Bail Out of the 1980s, Enron Fleecing investors and Utility Rate Payers of 100s of $Billions of dollars, and finally the “Wall St Melt-Down of 2008”, does not serve as a Gospel like Eulogy of the Failed policies of Reagenomics and the Trickle Down Theory – I don’t know what does -
AMEN TO THAT!
BUT PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE-TAKE A FRIEND WITH YOU!

[FBaggins]

5. She may very well win... but it is NOT a "media created thing"

She should be up by twenty points. Her own polls show her down or too close. How could the media NOT cover that?

If anything, the bulk of the coverage HELPS us.