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Chris Matthews: Brown Will Probably Win
While he may be pretty liberal, Chris Matthews is no dummy and his analysis of the nuts and bolts of electoral politics (especially in the Northeast) is often dead on accurate.
Looking at the numbers he has for key bellweathers he pretty much calls it as hopeless for Coakley.
Three areas had been identified as bellweathers, Gardner, Fitchburg and Peabody. They were chosen because 1) the party registration figures in each is pretty much identical to the statewide numbers and 2) the results in each was virtually identical to the statewide results in the 2006 Senate race (Kennedy’s last campaign).
Brown leads by double digits in all three.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#34921323
14 Responses to “Chris Matthews: Brown Will Probably Win”
Chris Matthews not a dummy? He didn't become one of the least popular commentators on the telly because of his uh… intelligence. At least Olbermann is funny when he froths at the mouth. Maddow is error prone but bright and makes some good points. Matthews? Not a dummy? Have you got the right guy? Rumor has it Matthews carries a “Walk and Chew Gum Alarm” to alert him to potential hazards.
Rachel Maddow —- How can someone so intelligent be so wrong?
Well I'm not here to defend Chris for making predictions people don't like.
But the fact is when it comes to the nuts and bolts of New England politics he knows his stuff
As far as Maddow: Add me here (again) to her critics. She seems to have a future; just listen to her for an instant and she stands out among those on the radio, and she has pleasant looks that compete with any newsbabe whom we'd rather not listen to at all — but why does she have to be so illogical and, snippety-kid-critic-like, and, yes, wrong about so much? (Dropping the stunts like the neurotic Uganda “crusade” — too much, for far too long! — would help her, as well.)
I don't like Olbermann; he competed with Matthews for nonsense when he acquired a text copy of Obama's nomination speech (that the campaign STUPIDLY released prior to the speech itself!) and proceeded to read it aloud on the air, before Obama started making the speech. (Everyone along with me, who was watching and listening this event, was screaming at the television for him Keithie to shut up. Funny how liberals, too, were calling him all kinds of ugly things… [chuckle].)
“Maddow is error prone but bright and makes some good points.”
Maddow and (Ed) Schultz — that might be fun.
(Other than two New York accents, Randi Rhodes and Michael Savage, anti-matter and matter)
You are depressing me Patrick.
Always happy to be of service to our readers <G>.
Despite rumors to the contrary, I don't make up the facts, I just report em.
Wow, I mean just wow. The implications are incredible. I also wonder if he does win will the leadership try and delay seating him?
I'd be greatly surprised if they didn't, for as long as they could.
Brown doesn't deserve to be # 41. The opponents of the bill don't deserve to stop it.
The democrats in congress will never be rewarded for lying down and begging for mercy – the base was disgusted with such weakness in 1994 and the democrats were slaughtered. Ram the bill through – you will at least not do worse in the midterms and you will help millions of people. You won't be rewarded for bending over.
They don't care about the “will of the people”. They are playing to destroy you and gain power at all costs. Spite them with every play in the book and spit on their pretensions.
Preach it. I've been saying this all along. Cram a bill through..full coverage for everyone. They've had the 60, but no courage to follow through with their convictions. They are too worried about re-election and not worried about the American people.
Dems are weak…period.
Neither side has cared about the “will of the people”. Your high horse's belly is scraping the ground.
“Dems are weak…period.”
Incorrect.
The Dems have failed and are generating opposition and rejection because they're attempting to do too much (as well as too quickly). It doesn't help that they're often inept as well as wrongfully minded.
Blaming the wrong people, and the wrong things, doesn't help. That includes incorrect post-mortems.
….just the facts ma'am….