Post 300 on Senate Election in Mass.!
Happy new year LATE to everyone! It’s been such a busy 2 weeks I don’t know where to begin. Right now I’m following the race in Massachusetts. Everything I’m reading shows Brown leading by a large margin. We need his win to secure the senate against the democrats in having the filibuster! This is race is so important and has a lot of intricate workings to get him elected. I believe Obama introduced us to how elections can be won by spreading the word online with technology. Brown’s senate election is showing how people can spread the word online and help pull together for a candidate. There are 100′s of thousands of people following and helping push him into winning this race. Twitter is showing how people are responding via the #MA tags and other tags. Getting data out quickly which show Brown with a nice lead and supporting him.
I was reading the Boston Globe on an article that tries to make Brown supporters out to be unruly and mean. Then you see thousands of supports commenting how the article and the Boston Globe are just being biases and that they support Brown. It is wonderful seeing people get active and CARE about politics! It’s important. This is OUR future.
I hope all the best for the upcoming year and I plan on getting active more. It’s been a rough one with my grandfather passing and other minor things going crazy my world lately.
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Looks like we got what we wanted! I think people were itching to bust the super majority. Probably any Republican would’ve done, and it would’ve happened with or without him being online. I’m not sure if I like him specifically, and liken him in many ways to Palin (who I still don’t care for), but I’ll take the bad with the good. I don’t like super majorities on either side, and believe things should only happen when it makes sense across party lines. Unlike Obama’s statement to the contrary, Republicans haven’t tried to block everything. They voted with Dems to renew the home buyer’s credit as well as many other things. They also voted with Dems to block creation of the POTUS’s new counsel. When things seem right, both parties tend to have supporters. At least now, it will take convincing (or buying out) one republican. Hopefully, that is a tad less simple than doing the same on the Dem side…