Open Massachusetts Senate seat and Cyber-Space

Conflicting polls show very different outcomes in the race to replace Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate.

Are you watching the Coakley-Brown race for the Massachusetts Senate seat?

This is from Foxnews.com: According to Public Policy Polling group, the race is looking like a toss up, with Republican Scott Brown up 48-47 percent on Martha Coakley.

Brown is benefiting from depressed Democratic interest in the election and a huge lead among independents for his surprisingly strong standing, the poll takers conclude.

Those folks planning to vote in the special election are actually opposed to Obama's health care plan by a 47-41 margin and only narrowly express approval of the president's overall job performance 44-43 percent.

"The Massachusetts Senate race is shaping up as a potential disaster for Democrats," said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling.

Click here to see more from the poll. (pdf)

And this is from The Boston Globe:
Democrat Martha Coakley, buoyed by her durable statewide popularity, enjoys a solid, 15-percentage-point lead over Republican rival Scott Brown as the race for US Senate enters the homestretch, according to a new Boston Globe poll of likely voters.

After reading the Boston Globe article I read the comments about it. I found the one below to be typical of conservative mentality. Bostfan is responding to a comment from someone complaining about Fox polls....

Bostfan wrote:

Fox is the only investigative news organization left. They understand their job is not to be a Presidential cheerleader, but to challenge and look for more answers. Do we really need Chris Mathews on MSNBC saying there goes Obama into enemy territory when he gives a speech at West Point? You know the truth about the lame stream media. To quote, "You can't handle the truth!" Fox News is blowing away the competition. If you have DirecTV, check the application that tells you the programming which people are watching at any given time. Fox News is almost always in the top 3, and often #1, and there is no other news station to crack the top 5 in general beyond Fox. Those numbers don't lie. As for the race here in MA, Rasmussen had your candidate up by nine points. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/massachusetts/election_2010_massachusetts_special_senate_election
I'm sure Rassmusen would be more accurate than the Globe. As for a Fox Poll, was this a scientific poll, or just a response page? In typical Democrat fashion, you mislead the people.

LOL!!

But this one I thought interesting because todays races also must include polls and numbers from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! I don't know how you feel about this cyber-gobley goop, but I don't care for it! Boston Herald.com:
State Sen. Scott Brown made a lot of noise in the polls in the race to succeed late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy this week - and he’s also winning the social media battle.

Brown, a Wrentham Republican, is crushing Attorney General Martha Coakley on the popular social networking site Facebook: He has 20,183 supporters on the site while Coakley has 6,702.

And Coakley, who is vying to become the first female senator from Massachusetts, is getting trounced by Brown when it comes to female Facebook supporters. The “Facebook Women for Brown” group has 1,128 members, while the “Women for Coakley” group has just 45.

Over on Twitter, Brown has 4,156 followers while Coakley has just 2,032.

And on YouTube, Brown’s channel has had 11,204 views while Coakley’s channel has been viewed just 2,724 times.

What remains to be seen is whether Brown can turn his cyber-victories into votes.

I don't know what's going on in cyber-space, I just hope a Democrat wins the Senate seat in Massachusetts!