January 21, 2010

Going Pink -- Reasons Brown Won: "It had to be all of them"

The New Ledger clears away the dead wood excuses this morning with Seven Lessons of the Brown Bombshell

In the past three decades, Republicans have won zero Senate races in Massachusetts but have won the Governorship four times with three different candidates. Bill Weld got 50.19% of the vote when he was elected in 1990, Paul Cellucci 50.81% in 1998, and Mitt Romney 49.77% in 2002. (Weld got over 70% of the vote when he was re-elected in 1994). Brown beat Coakley 52-47, meaning that he had the best showing by a non-incumbent top-level statewide Republican in decades. For contrast, in 2006, Deval Patrick carried Massachusetts 56-35, a 21-point margin. In 2008, Barack Obama carried Massachusetts 62-36, a 26-point margin. In other words, the electorate swung 26 points from the 2006 Governor’s race and 31 points from the 2008 presidential race. To illustrate:

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Posted by Vanderleun at January 21, 2010 8:25 AM
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Better give up, looks like Boston is surrounded.

Posted by: wth at January 21, 2010 2:29 PM