{"id":217131,"date":"2010-01-13T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-2085585689536873043"},"modified":"2010-01-13T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:00:12","slug":"teddys-seat-is-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217131","title":{"rendered":"Teddy&#8217;s Seat is in Play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S03RdPDJ_II\/AAAAAAAAE8k\/AzXPdGihLN8\/s1600-h\/kennedyseat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S03RdPDJ_II\/AAAAAAAAE8k\/AzXPdGihLN8\/s400\/kennedyseat.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426223426237496450\" \/><\/a><br \/>No one expected there to be any contest in the election over the late Teddy Kennedy&#39;s Senate seat. But, according to the polls, it might actually be in play (if I were a Conservative in MA, I wouldn&#39;t hold my breath&#8230;we are talking about a Commonwealth comprised of a voter base that repeatedly re-elected Kerry and Kennedy after all&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting about the race between Martha Coakley (D) and Scott Brown (R) is they are both using healthcare as a major talking point. Brown is promising to be the 41st vote that can break the filibuster-proof majority and Coakley is (predictably) saying she will be Obama&#39;s 60th vote.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the polls have these opponents within a few points (some polls as many as 15, but some have  Brown leading by one) speaks volumes about the frustrations of the past year&#8230;Massachusetts is a liberal bastion&#8230; Can you imagine the sheer panic that will grip the DNC if a Republican takes Teddy Kennedy&#39;s seat!?<\/p>\n<p>If the GOP had some balls they&#39;d mimic the very late Joe Kennedy and get this seat the way he got it for his son&#8230; Hire someone else named Martha Coakley to run to split up her vote allowing Scott Brown to win. Hey, it was good enough for JFK&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-2085585689536873043?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one expected there to be any contest in the election over the late Teddy Kennedy&#39;s Senate seat. But, according to the polls, it might actually be in play (if I were a Conservative in MA, I wouldn&#39;t hold my breath&#8230;we are talking about a Commonwealth comprised of a voter base that repeatedly re-elected Kerry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}