Brown Senate Win Caught Press Napping
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 26th, 2010 5:32 am by HL
Brown Senate Win Caught Press Napping
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
If Martha Coakley's defeat in Massachusetts was a political earthquake, most journalists were slow to hear the tremors. Her chances of beating an obscure Republican in the race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat seemed so overwhelming that national news organizations largely ignored the contest until the stretch run. The mainstream media were lulled into complacency by Coakley's big lead in the polls and Massachusetts's reputation as the bluest of blue states. "The national press, and frankly to some extent the local press, were taken by surprise," says Mark…
Is the Senate Also in Play?
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Last week I challenged the conventional wisdom that the House of Representatives is not in play. After Scott Brown’s five-point victory in Massachusetts, it is worth asking wheter the Senate is in play as well. If a Republican can win in a fairly high turnout election (with about as many ballots cast as in the 2006 gubernatorial election) in Massachusetts, is there anywhere they can’t win?The answer is that the Senate is competitive – but barely. There are seven Senate seats that Republicans have an excellent shot at winning. After that, the going gets very…
Hugo Chavez’s Revolution Collapsing
Jackson Diehl, Washington Post