{"id":1517,"date":"2010-01-12T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2010-01-12T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:24:43","slug":"can_you_buy_a_senate_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Can You Buy A Senate Election In Massachusetts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/12\/desperation-time-dscc-suddenly-buys-570k-in-ma-ad-time\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee&nbsp; (DSCC) has recently purchased $567K in ads in the Boston and Springfield markets&nbsp;to support Martha Coakley&#8217;s campaign.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Morrissey:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s over $800,000 from the party in just 48 hours.&nbsp; And they&#8217;re not buying ads because they&#8217;re believing that Boston Globe poll that puts Coakley up 15 points over Scott Brown, either.&nbsp; The fact that they have to have an ad buy in Boston should be rather unnerving for Democrats around the country.&nbsp; Democrats own Boston &#8212; or at least they did.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The money spent in Massachusetts at the last minute was obviously money that was originally intended to be spent elsewhere.&nbsp; However this election turns out, it has been more of an uphill climb for the Democrats than expected.&nbsp; That alone is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">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.&nbsp; Electing Scott Brown to the Senate is the only sure way to stop healthcare reform.&nbsp; Nothing else will work.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">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&#8217;s Senate seat.&nbsp; Mr. Brown had the good sense to observe that it wasn&#8217;t Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat&#8211;the seat belonged to the people of Massachusetts and that&#8217;s who he would represent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air&nbsp;today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee&nbsp; (DSCC) has recently purchased $567K in ads in the Boston and Springfield markets&nbsp;to support Martha Coakley&#8217;s campaign.&nbsp; According to Mr. Morrissey: &#8220;That&#8217;s over $800,000 from the party in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}