a rare political post

[arcanology]

I'm really vexed that the filibuster has forced me to vote for someone who is able to take a gold plated sure thing on a silver platter with spangles and brass band and drop it on the floor and then run it over with a truck. A loss to learn again the lesson that you have to nominate someone who has done more than work his or her way up in the

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[psychohist]

I think it's naive to blame this on Coakley. Lots of independents voted in the Democratic primary - and they voted for Coakley because they disliked the other options even more.

The fact is, it wasn't Coakley who lost this election, it was Obama and his policies. A health care plan that prohibits most private plans from covering abortion, and would increase the number of uninsured in Massachusetts? Not a winner.

[marcusmarcusrc]

But the exit polls that I've seen show that Obama had a 53 to 59 percent favorability among the voters, so I'm not sure that an Obama-based explanation necessarily makes sense... http://mediamatters.org/research/201001200006

(I grant you, if Obama had been able to lower unemployment in Mass, or possibly if he'd really stuck it to the bankers, or other popular activities, that probably would have helped Coakley)

[arcanology]

Probably helped, but I don't think this is about Obama, this is about the local Republicans nominating from the heart while the local Democrats nominate from the party roster.

[kirisutogomen]

What gives you the idea that the Republicans nominated from the heart?

[arcanology]

I was being charitable, meaning "a place of great emotion". I forget that they have no heart.

It was probably the spleen or the... wait, what organ governs fear?

[kirisutogomen]

Adrenal gland?

Seriously, though, what gives you the impression that there was any real emotion at all in the Republican primaries?

[arcanology]

Maybe it was all after the primary? I admit the primaries were a while ago and I'm projecting back.

An alternate interpretation to the emotional one is that voters hate it when you run the "I deserve it" campaign.