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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Massachusetts against health care reform 

Noted political analyst Charlie Cook, in an article getting a lot of attention both left and right, says the Democrats' pig push Obamacare has been a "colossal miscalculation".

Has it? News from the beating heart of blue territory...
Our exclusive 7NEWS/Suffolk University Poll shows Brown, with 50%, in front of Coakley with 46%. Independent Joe Kennedy gets 3% and just 1% is still undecided.

How quickly has this race turned around? In November, Coakley was beating Brown by 31 percentage points. Now, Brown is up by 4% -- a change of 35% in two months...

Coakley is not being helped by her pledge to help pass the Democrat's national health care bill. Fifty-one percent of likely voters here say no to it while 36% say yes. Sixty-one percent think Washington can't afford it...
Voters are 15-points against Obamacare, 51-36, in Massachusetts. Not Texas or Oklahoma ... Massachusetts.

The fact that people are even talking about the Democrats losing Ted Kennedy's seat shows somebody pretty colossally miscalculated something.