Given how desperate things got for Democrats in Massachusetts in recent weeks, dirty tricks are hardly a surprise.  But this one really stands out. It involves calls being made from Washington to Massachusetts pro-life voters, telling them to oppose Scott Brown because he's against Obamacare.

Aside from the fact that it was an obvious effort to suppress the pro-life vote, you have to love the irony of them pretending to be a pro-life and in favor of the Democrat's heatlh care bill.  No shame.

(via LifeNews)

Behind in the polls to Republican Senate
candidate Scott brown, supporters of pro-abortion candidate Martha
Coakley have evidentially reached into their bag of dirty tricks.
A Washington, D.C. based company is making calls to Massachusetts
residents pretending to represent a prominent pro-life group.

The
calls, from 202-461-3441, a Washington number registered to a company
called SOOH, claim to be from Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

Election Day has finally arrived in Massachusetts and everyone's waiting to see who will soon fill what Democrats and the media refer to as "Ted Kennedy's seat".  And, if the latest Massachusetts polls are any indication, the answer looks like it will Republican Scott Brown.

Coakley's numbers have been in a free-fall over the past few weeks and, Democrats are criticizing her and her campaign both off and on the record.

The Democrat finger pointing is important to note because they are essentially trying to absolve Congress, Obama (and the liberal agenda in general) from any and all blame for how this race has played out.  Which is the same thing they did when they lost in Virginia and New Jersey a few months ago.  They were all over the place telling anyone with a microphone or TV camera that it had nothing to do with what was going on in Washington.  It was "all local".

There have been a lot of polls conducted over the past ten days or so showing Masschusetts state senator Scott Brown first gaining momentum, then passing AG Martha Coakley.  The latest group (summary here on Real Clear Politics) seem to show Brown with a comfortable lead.

Read that again.  "Comfortable lead".  In Massachusetts.  At state Obama won with 61% of the vote, (his 8th highest total of any state in 2008).

What really interesting are some of the numbers "inside the numbers"...as in how the various demographic groups break down.

The one that really stuck out to me today was part of the Politico's Insider/Advantage poll.  It shows 18-29 year old voters breaking 61% to 30% for the Republican.  Again, 18 to 29 year olds...in Massachusetts, (which is a big "college town" state), for a REPUBLICAN.

This is the same group that prompted USA Today to suggest a major electoral shift in America when the 2008 pre-election Gallup Poll showed them breaking to Obama by the exact same percentage (61% to 32%).

All of which leads one to wonder whether the I-Pod and Facebook generation is getting a little put off by the Democrats push for the same old expensive, big government solutions to modern problems.