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Snail better get off dem tracks

Not being a Bat Stater, and unfamiliar with Scott Brown's story, I found this WaPo article interesting [Democrats scramble in Massachusetts to retain Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat].  Especially the "but it kept the results to itself" part. The fundamental dynamic of the race fell in place months ago, when Brown set off in a pickup truck for the only campaign the Republican could afford: retail, door-to-door. The campaign was so strapped for cash that aides described the $40,000 spent in the primary as a major hit. Brown could not afford to mail out absentee ballots, often so crucial in a close race. "So our program consists of e-mail and Facebook and Twitter," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a campaign official. In mid-December, the National Republican Senatorial Committee conducted a poll that showed Brown trailing by only 13 points, but it kept the results to itself. Coakley continued operating on the assumption that for all intents and purposes she had won the seat with the Dec. 8 primary, a common assumption in the state known as the bluest of the blue. ” Could be I'm reading into this stuff that validates my own impression of the Rockefeller-winged GOP leadership, but, wtf?