According to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has recently purchased $567K in ads in the Boston and Springfield markets to support Martha Coakley's campaign.
According to Mr. Morrissey:
"That's over $800,000 from the party in just 48 hours. And they're not buying ads because they're believing that Boston Globe poll that puts Coakley up 15 points over Scott Brown, either. The fact that they have to have an ad buy in Boston should be rather unnerving for Democrats around the country. Democrats own Boston -- or at least they did."
The money spent in Massachusetts at the last minute was obviously money that was originally intended to be spent elsewhere. However this election turns out, it has been more of an uphill climb for the Democrats than expected. That alone is a good thing.
Opinion polls around the nation reflect the unpopularity of the healthcare reform bill and the other power grabs of the Obama Administration and the Democrat-controlled (filibuster-proof) Congress. Electing Scott Brown to the Senate is the only sure way to stop healthcare reform. Nothing else will work.
At one point during the debate, Scott Brown was asked how he would feel about being the vote that would kill the current healthcare reform bill while sitting in Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Mr. Brown had the good sense to observe that it wasn't Ted Kennedy's Senate seat--the seat belonged to the people of Massachusetts and that's who he would represent.
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