According to the latest Boston Globe poll, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) is now leading incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R) by five points in what has become the most watched Senate race of 2012.
As The Globe points out, this is the sixth time Warren has lead Brown in the last eight polls The Globe has taken – it’s absolutely not a fluke poll.
The newspaper points out that,”Brown’s hurdle is that even as voters from both parties say they like him personally, regard him as bipartisan, and give him high marks on his job performance, many also say they plan to stick with their political party.”
Basically, if Massachusetts Democrats, which outnumber Republicans 3 – 1, vote a straight party ticket, Brown will get the boot despite having done everything right in office but be a Democrat.
That leads me to wonder, what’s the matter with Massachusetts?
Arguably Brown only won his special election to to the U.S. Senate in 2010 because he was up against stuck-up Attorney General Martha Coakely, who balked at the idea of mingling with the commoners outside Fenway Park and spelled the Commonwealth’s name wrong in an ad.
However, the Elizabeth Warren debacle has nearly risen to Coakely ranks.
Warren’s lies about her Native American heritage ought to give Massachusetts voters pause about her morals – morals that have further come into question over the last two weeks after conservative blogger William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection revealed that Warren may have illegally practiced law in Massachusetts without a license. Worse, the clients Warren represented don’t fit into the progressive ‘power to the people’ narrative Democrats adore her for.
Massachusetts voters shouldn’t write off Jacobson’s findings on the issue of whether Warren broke the law as a partisan smear. A recent Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly poll finds that 87 percent of the lawyers polled believe that Warren should be investigated over the law license report based on the evidence presented.
Despite the fact that Massachusetts’ favorite son Mitt Romney is at the top of the ticket, Commonwealth voters seem intent on electing Warren come hell or high water.
Tonight Warren and Brown will square off in their second debate. While it’s still too early to call the race for Warren, it’s difficult to envision what else Brown could possibly bring up tonight or in forthcoming weeks that would hurt Warren’s credibility enough to change Massachusetts voters’ minds.
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I’m no big fan of Scott Brown’s thanks to his vote for the Dodd-Frank act, but I am convinced that no matter how corrupt Warren is, nothing she does would convince some Mass Dems not to vote for her.
I have lived here my whole life and I have never seen anything like this campaign. She has done well to make Scott Brown look like a bully for “attacking her heritage”, she has done well to appeal to women as well as the completely uninformed Obama supporters. Her TV & radio ads running right now say “Scott Brown attacked my heritage” – No, he helped make it clear that you claimed Native-American heritage a long time ago when you thought it would help you when you don’t have any Native-American heritage. The ad also says “She will lower taxes … “. OK, by what means can an individual senator lower anybody’s taxes? None right? It also says “She has been fighting for the little guy …” In what capacity? As a Harvard Law Professor? How does that work – What exactly did she do that was “for the little guy”? What a complete bunch of hogwash.
I am convinced E. Warren could kill a man right in front of them and certain Dems would ask who the guy was, what did he do, as if maybe she was ok for killing him.
The fact that she has never held public office? The fact that she is not even from Massachusetts? That she is taking huge money donations from the Wall St. guys she claims to stand up to? She practiced law in Mass although she has no license to practice law in Mass? That she is a proven liar? That she is a complete hypocrite? Those are nothing to certain Dems I know. Scott Brown = Republican, Republican = Bad, Warren = Democrat, Democrat = Good
Wanna know what’s wrong with Massachusetts? Many of the Dems I know here are smart, in fact really smart, but they are intellectually extremely lazy. They think voting Democrat is a vote for the little guy because that’s what they have been told and nothing, nothing, nothing will change their minds.
Unfortunately, for Democrats, the Party trumps everything else. Especially in Mass. It’s the epicenter of Dem= urbane and sophisticated, while Rep= buck-tooth racist. These are the kind of people that will blame anyone– themselves, the Rep’s, the Chinese, the leprechauns– once Obama’s Big Government ideas bring financial ruin. And after it’s over, and after the rubble stops smoking… they’ll be banging a drum to do the exact same thing all over again.
It’s the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. That’s how they roll. They’re about to elect another generation of Kennedys, even though each generation, conceived in a witches’ brew of alcohol and drugs, is dimmer than the last.
It’s an aging state, still very dependent on the MSM, and the most significant newspaper, half the columnists in the lesser, workingman’s tabloid, and the television stations are all deeply in the tank for anything Democratic.
The legislature and courts are deeply corrupt, and news stories about scions of the nomenklatura who have serious crimes broomed in court fill the tabloid. (The nomenklatura-occupied broadsheet does not report local political scandals. For example, one of the senior state senators groped two women in a public park and was arrested, but the Globe had his back).
Taxes are among the nation’s highest, crime is rampant, and guns are all but banned, but that is enforced only against the otherwise law-abiding — violent criminals seldom face gun charges, and violent criminals are soon released. In one case, a judge sentenced a transvestite child rapist to house arrest — same house with “its” victim. (The judge’s husband was a wheel at the Globe, which never reported what she’d done).
Those conservatives not shackled by family or employment have decamped to the Sunbelt or to purple-libertarian New Hampshire. So it’s actually getting more deeply blue than it already is. Did I mention that the public pensions are a Ponzi scheme waiting to collapse? I see I did not. Basically, Massachusetts is the answer to, “what is beyond Greece, Argentina, and Venezuela?”
This law license issue may have some legs. The question now becomes was she actually licensed in any state when she practiced law? Her TX license expired in 1992 — that only leaves NJ. If it turns out she was in federal court with no license at all — even MA has to turn this b__ in for a felony.