Keller @ Large: What The Election Will Tell Us

A blog by Jon Keller

November 2, 2010 6:50 AM

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Thankfully, it’s almost over. Tuesday we find out…

* If organized labor, big-city mayors, the Democratic State Committee, and the rest of The Machine’s components still have what it takes and weren’t just caught napping last January;

* If the Baker campaign tore themselves away from planning Paul Loscocco’s game-changing endorsement event long enough to coordinate a decent GOTV operation;

* If the local tea parties are for real;

* If Beacon Hill has anything to be worried about;

* If Deval Patrick’s charm offensive worked;

* If voters have “had enough” of Charlie Baker;

* If the same voters who gave a Senate seat to Scott Brown are unwilling to give other Republicans a single House seat;

* If elderly voters are that easy to scare about Social Security;

* If harshly-negative ads work, or backfire;

* If Massachusetts is surrounded by a 60-foot high wall that keeps the national wave at bay;

* If there is a national wave, or

* If polls are now officially useless.

What’d I miss? Your turn.

Keller @ Large: What The Election Will Tell Us

fred

If voters will fall for the idea that the world will end if they vote yes on any of the ballot questions.
bdelraso

VOTE FOR CHARLIE BAKER!!!!!!

STUFF DEVAL PATRICK – HE FAILED TO SERVE OUR PEOPLE IN THIS STATE!
matm

you call that charm? I call it self serving pomp.
ladyfnx

If the OTHER candidate wins, how soon will the APOCOLYPSE follow?
Ellen

I wouldn’t vote for Baker for all the tea in China. He’s an over bloated nasty, and mean spirited kind of guy that this state doesn’t need. I may have my questions about Deval Patrick, but sooner the devil you know then the devil you don’t know.
Steve

I predict whatever the results, people will see what they want to see.
joe

If voters fell for ” CAPE WIND ” – the myth financed by taxpayers and electric customers.
taxedout

Amazing how these Po’s can Call you 50 times the week before election, for Your support, but can’t find the Time or your number the other 4 years!!!
Steve

Two things I want to know -

- How Prop 19 in CA does. Polls conducted by actual people had it losing narrowly. Robo-polls had it winning.

- Whether Prop 19 turns out the youth vote in higher numbers (so to speak) than in other states

- I poll results are always accurate IF you get the demographics of the vote correct. Who voted? How well did the pollsters do at answering that question?