Comments on: Why Did Brown Win?

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:20:09 +0000

Another reason I’ve heard for Brown’s win: the selfishness of the people of Massachusetts. They have state-sponsored health care, so they don’t want anything to happen on the Federal level which would usurp or negate what they have – the rest of us be damned. And Brown promised them he would vote against the bill so they wouldn’t have to worry.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:15:41 +0000

And I DON’T suffer with Bennett and Hatch?

By: Dan Mabbutt

Dan Mabbutt — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:55:51 +0000

You make a good point! Dealing with the decisions of other people is why the Kurds, the Uzbeks, the Armenians, the Uyghurs … all want their own country. And the ability of a diverse people to come together in common purpose … mainly in the past unfortunately … is one of the things that has made America strong.

Look at it from their point of view. They have to suffer with Bennett and Hatch.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:43:52 +0000

Who are these “people” that get the government they deserve?

I am a “people” and I don’t know that I deserve what is being foisted upon me by people so easily swayed as the voters in Massachusetts were! I would not have voted for Brown, but I am going to reap the realities of what the emotional voters in Massachusetts have done.

By: Dan Mabbutt

Dan Mabbutt — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:01:42 +0000

Me too!

I think Obama is the best president we’ve had since Carter … and maybe even better than Carter.

The fact that Carter was pushed out of Office by the same kind of thoughtless emotional voting that gave the win to Brown – he lost to a Hollywood actor playing a role in a movie produced by the right wing – gives me great concern. But everything that “Peggy” and “RPMcMurphy” said still boils down to my bottom line conclusion:

“People generally get the government they deserve.”

By: Lena

Lena — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:32:39 +0000

I listened to OBama speak to voters in Ohio today. I voted for OBama and will remain a fan until I see something better. Which I haven’t so far. Lena

By: RPMcMurphy

RPMcMurphy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:45:11 +0000

I think the vote in Mass was more than just a rejection of Obama but also a rejection of the ways our Lords and Masters in Washington run the country – the ways of doing business that Obama promised to change. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want real change and Obama can’t make it happen without their willing participation. Mass would have gone for Obama without regard to who the Republican candidate was – even Romney.
Coakley represented a continuance of the status quo as the anointed heir apparent of Kennedy and the voters decided to send a message.
Big health is a winner no matter what happens. Health stocks have been going up for months. The stocks went up when it looked like health insurance reform would pass and the insurance companies would get millions of new customers with little meaningful control of costs. The stocks went up when it looked like health insurance reform would not pass and the companies could continue their current practices and make lots of money.

By: Dan Mabbutt

Dan Mabbutt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:51:05 +0000

Just remember …

You read it here first!!

By: Peggy

Peggy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:21:53 +0000

On XM Radio yesterday, the host urged voters from Massachusetts to call in and tell us all who they had voted for and why. Caller after caller said they had voted for Brown because he tried harder to get their vote. The host would sputter and say, “But, but, but, he’s going to go to Washington and VOTE! And he has said he’s going to vote against the health care plan! Do you agree with him on this?” And the callers would not answer the question and just go back to their first-stated point: Brown tried harder than did Coakley, so they voted for Brown. As the article states, lots of Americans will continue not to have health care because of the votes cast yesterday in Massachusetts. – Yes!

And this article in today’s NY Times addresses your comment about the stocks of pharmaceutical companies. As soon as it was obvious what was going to occur in Massachusetts, everyone started purchasing drug company stocks. They win, we lose.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/time-to-cowboy-up/?th&emc=th

This NY Times article also has thoughts that you discussed in your blog “Dainty Dems.” And thoughts like this are all over XM Radio and the Internet today. New school Democrats just don’t know how to approach the American public, how to “fight dirty,” how to get votes.