{"id":1537,"date":"2010-01-18T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2010-01-18T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:06:55","slug":"the_wall_street_journal_on_the_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"The Wall Street Journal On The Massachusetts Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2010\/01\/17\/bay-state-homestretch-what-to-watch-for-on-election-day\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article on what to look for in the special election in Massachusetts&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Martha Coakley appeared at a church with Boston&#8217;s Mayor Menino (known locally as Mumbles Menino) and then appeared later with Barack Obama at Northeastern University.&nbsp; This video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bzoJ0Ag0Co8\">You Tube<\/a>&nbsp;gives you some indication of the&nbsp;excitement Ms. Coakley was able to generate by her appearance.&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Brown was on a bus tour of the state, stopping at Worcester in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, these are the things to look for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will the independent voters turn out?&nbsp; The article points out, &#8221; Most recent party enrollment data for state, as of Oct. 15, 2008, showed Democrats with 37% of registered voters and Republicans accounting for 12%. But 51% were independents.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Will core supporters turn out?&nbsp; Scott Brown needs to have the support of Democrats and Independents as well as Republicans (he seems to be doing well in that area&#8211;people who have never voted Republican are planning to do just that in this election).<\/li>\n<li>Can a Republican win in Massachusetts?&nbsp; Yes, there have been Republican governors, and Ronald Reagan won the state in 1980 and 1984, but it is essentially a one-party state.<\/li>\n<li>Will there be a backlash against President Obama and his healthcare proposals?&nbsp; This is Massachusetts&#8211;I have no idea!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The weather here in Massachusetts today is cold with snow showers.&nbsp; The weather tomorrow is supposed to be more of the same.&nbsp; New Englanders are a hearty bunch, and I am not sure if the weather will affect the turnout or not.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be an interesting day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal&nbsp;posted an article on what to look for in the special election in Massachusetts&nbsp;&nbsp; On Sunday, Martha Coakley appeared at a church with Boston&#8217;s Mayor Menino (known locally as Mumbles Menino) and then appeared later with Barack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1537\">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-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","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=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}