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Because after all, that strategy worked out really well for Martha Coakley, didn’t it?

The Boston Herald reports…

A worried White House is poised to pull out all the stops in Gov. Deval Patrick’s heated gubernatorial bid – viewed as an early litmus test of whether disenchanted voters are ready to give President Obama’s message of hope and change four more years – or the heave-ho.

A Vineyard-bound Obama and his team already are discussing fall fund-raising appearances with Patrick’s camp and churning out campaign ads while David Axlerod – campaign guru for both Patrick and Obama – chats with Patrick “fairly regularly,” said one source close to the Obama administration.

“If the governor loses, it’s really bad for the president,” a Democratic insider close to the White House said yesterday, pointing out Obama already lost a seemingly sure U.S. Senate seat to Republican upstart Scott Brown.

A quick review of the similarities between Misters Obama and Patrick…

1. Both used David Axelrod as a campaign manager.

2. Meaningless campaign slogan for Deval Patrick: Together We Can.

3. Meaningless campaign slogan for Barack Obama: Yes We Can.

Oh and in case you forgot, their stump speeches were eerily familiar.

UPDATE: Weasel Zippers links. Thanks!

Another Republican wins in blue Massachusetts.

Republican Richard Ross claimed the state Senate seat formerly held by Scott Brown as his Democrat opponent conceded a GOP victory last night, in a contest viewed as a referendum on Brown’s stunning U.S. Senate victory, experts said.

Ross, a Wrentham state representative, defeated Democrat Peter Smulowitz, a doctor and political newcomer from Needham, not only reaffirming Brown’s win but giving the GOP added momentum heading into the November election.

“Republicans can say this is a harbinger of things to come in November,” said political analyst Lou DiNatale. “Republicans want to say this is a trend.”

Election returns weren’t immediately available. But a Smulowitz aide said the Democrat conceded just after 9 p.m.

According to a new poll conducted by Suffolk University and Channel 7 of Boston, Scott Brown is now leading Martha Coakley by four points. Brown 50% to Coakley 46%.

This is great news for Scott Brown. The Boston Herald reports:

Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.

Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.

“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”

Change in the political landscape. Hmm.. I seem to remember another writer using those exact words.

For an excellent analysis of this poll, be sure to read this post from Allahpundit at Hot Air.

Jessica Taylor at The Politico has more:

Brown’s favorability ratings are also higher than Coakley’s, with 57 percent saying they have a favorable opinion of the state senator and just 19 percent having an unfavorable opinion. Forty-nine percent say they have a favorable opinion of Coakley, while 41 percent have an unfavorable opinion of the attorney general.

Against the backdrop of an election that could possibly play a decisive role in the health care debate—a point both parties have begun to press on their supporters—51 percent said they did not support the health care bill, with 36 percent supported it. Sixty-one percent said they didn’t believe the government could afford such a plan.

A plurality of respondents also believe Brown fared better during the televised debates between the candidates, with 41 percent saying they believed Brown won, compared to just 25 percent for Coakley.

FOOTNOTE: Here’s why Obama isn’t coming to Massachusetts…

With Mrs. Coakley flagging in the polls and Republican Scott Brown closing fast — one recent polls puts him 2 points ahead — Mr. Obama has decided to keep his fingerprints off a race that would be an embarrassment for Democrats should they lose, given that Mr. Obama won the state in 2008 by a 27 point margin.

Scott Brown can win this election and if he does, get ready to hear the loudest gnashing of teeth from the Democrat political establishment since Reagan turned Massachusetts red in 1980.

UPDATE: Scott Brown has raised a million dollars a day, every day this week.

UPDATE II: Martha Coakley says Catholics shouldn’t work in Emergency Rooms.

Boston Herald columnist and radio host Howie Carr offers an excellent list of reasons why Massachusetts voters might find themselves voting for Scott Brown for Senate on January 19th.

You might be a Scott Brown Voter if…

• You’re in a union, and you’re going to have to pay a 40 percent tax on your “Cadillac” health-care plan if Martha Coakley gets a chance to vote for Obama’s health-care rationing bill.
• You’re still waiting for that property-tax relief that Deval Patrick promised you in 2006.
• You’re on kidney dialysis and you have to pay for your treatment . . . but illegal aliens don’t.
• You’ve been rear-ended by a drunken state senator.
• You’ve been groped in Lowell by a state senator who, when arrested, gave police the name of a state rep.
• You lost your appetite for lunch one day when you observed a female state senator in a restaurant stuffing FBI cash bribes into her bra.
• You watch this crime wave emanating from the State House and wonder why the attorney general can’t seem to find one single solon to arrest, when the feds have no difficulty whatsoever nailing House speaker after speaker after speaker on serious felonies – not the technicalities Martha Coakley’s gone after Sal DiMasi for.
• You own a package store in the Merrimack Valley, and you’re getting killed by the hacks’ new 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol, on top of the 37 percent excise tax.
• You believe that if someone rapes his 23-month-old niece with a hot curling iron, the district attorney should go after the rapist even before the child’s mother files a complaint – even if the perp is a politically wired cop and the DA is running for higher office.

There’s more – Read it all here.

The planet is dying! Go green! Pass climate change legislation! Unless of course it impacts the lives of wealthy progressives. The Boston Herald reports that wealthy liberals on Martha’s Vineyard are fighting MA Governor Deval Patrick’s plan to build wind power turbines there.

What a surprise! They’re all for “green” power unless it’s in their backyard.

“Blazing a trail for renewable energy, Go. Deval Patrick is alienating Martha’s Vineyard’s liberal rich and famous by pushing a plan to lease state waters for 166 450-foot-high wind turbines between the pristine vacation spots of Gay Head cliffs and Cuttyhunk Island.”

“People come here because it’s a very special place. Not because they’re going to see David Letterman or someone, but because they can see the world the way it used to be,” argued an outraged Chilmark resident Andy Goldman.”

“Goldman, a retired trial attorney, and his wife Susan Heilbron, a former commissioner of New York City’s waterfront, are generals of the grassroots uprising Let Vineyarders Decide.”

“I plead guilty to thinking global warming is a real problem, but that doesn’t mean everybody who has a plan with the word ‘green’ has to be supported,” Goldman said.”

“Patrick’s final plan, due from Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian A. Bowles no later than Dec. 31, would permit a commercial wind farm of up to 100 turbines southwest of the wildlife refuge Nomans Land adjacent to the Vineyard and another 66 turbines off Cuttyhunk Island. State waters extend three miles from shore. The turbines would be comparable to 50-story buildings crowned with strobe lights.”

“James Feiner, a Vineyard real estate broker, claims he lost a $2 million-plus home sale on Gay Head this fall when his client – an environmentalist, no less – got wind of Patrick’s plan and bolted.”

“A mortified Feiner wasn’t even aware it was being discussed.”

“For them to run a band (of turbines) from Cuttyhunk to Nomans Land is idiotic,” Feiner said. “It would have impacted the whole water view of (my client’s) property.”

His client’s property??? Hasn’t Mr. Feiner heard that we’re all socialists now? It’s no longer his client’s property, it belongs to all of us.

Students in Hingham, MA were initially told that President Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father” was required summer reading. After some parents protested, the school administrators changed the rule but never made it public.

The Boston Herald reports:

“President Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” is creating a nightmare for 1,099 Hingham High students cramming to wrap up their “required” summer read – a book, it turns out, they didn’t have to read in the first place.”

“With school opening Tuesday, the Herald has learned teens whose offended parents complained were allowed by Principal Paula Girouard McCann and Helaine Silva, head of the Hingham Public Schools English Department, to pick any other memoir – an option they never publicized.”

“Lynne Powell-Pinto, chairwoman of the Hingham Republican Town Committee, has a son entering 11th grade.”

“Obama, she noted, “is a current political figure. He’s an important historical figure, no quibbles about that. But the goal of the community read is to bring people together. I just think they could have made a less divisive choice.”

Can you imagine the uproar that would have followed in San Francisco or New York if the public schools had required students to read George W. Bush’s book “A Charge to Keep?”

For more stunning news on political indoctrination in public schools, be sure to visit Michelle Malkin’s website and read her newest article – “No Junior Lobbyist Left Behind.”