Posted on 01/15/2010 11:28:14 AM PST by GOP_Lady
Here in Massachusetts, as well as in Washington, a growing sense of gloom is setting in among Democrats about the fortunes of Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley. "I have heard that in the last two days the bottom has fallen out of her poll numbers," says one well-connected Democratic strategist. In her own polling, Coakley is said to be around five points behind Republican Scott Brown. "If she's not six or eight ahead going into the election, all the intensity is on the other side in terms of turnout," the Democrat says. "So right now, she is destined to lose."
Intensifying the gloom, the Democrat says, is the fact that the same polls showing Coakley falling behind also show President Obama with a healthy approval rating in the state. "With Obama at 60 percent in Massachusetts, this shouldn't be happening, but it is," the Democrat says.
Given those numbers, some Democrats, eager to distance Obama from any electoral failure, are beginning to compare Coakley to Creigh Deeds, the losing Democratic candidate in the Virginia governor's race last year. Deeds ran such a lackluster campaign, Democrats say, that his defeat could be solely attributed to his own shortcomings, and should not be seen as a referendum on President Obama's policies or those of the national Democratic party.
The same sort of thinking is emerging in Massachusetts. "This is a Creigh Deeds situation," the Democrat says. "I don't think it says that the Obama agenda is a problem. I think it says, 1) that she's a terrible candidate, 2) that she ran a terrible campaign, 3) that the climate is difficult but she should have been able to overcome it, and 4) that Democrats beware -- you better run good campaigns, or you're going to lose."
With the election still four days away, Democrats are still hoping that "something could happen" to change the dynamics of the race. But until that thing happens, the situation as it exists today explains Barack Obama's decision not to travel to Massachusetts to campaign for Coakley. "If the White House thinks she can win, Obama will be there," the Democrat says. "If they don't think she can win, he won't be there." For national Democrats, the task is now to insulate Obama against any suggestion that a Coakley defeat would be a judgment on the president's agenda and performance in office.
The private talk among Democrats is also reflected in some public polling on the race. Late Thursday, we learned the results of a Suffolk University poll showing Brown in the lead by four points, 50 percent to 46 percent. That poll showed Obama with a 55 percent approval rating. Also on Thursday, two of Washington's leading political analysts, Stuart Rothenberg and Charlie Cook, each changed their assessment of the Brown/Coakley race from a narrow advantage for Coakley to a toss-up.
My hope is that Mabus does show up and make a fool of himself just like the Olympics.
Keep telling yourselves that lie.
I'm sure Dem operatives are frantically looking for an "October surprise" for Brown.
BULL ...
Intensifying the gloom, the Democrat says, is the fact that the same polls showing Coakley falling behind also show President Obama with a healthy approval rating in the state. “With Obama at 60 percent in Massachusetts, this shouldn’t be happening, but it is,” the Democrat says.
Gee, maybe those 60% approval figures are WRONG?
The Coakley people are now running around in circles. Bringing in outside help but seem to be losing the battle.
Obama is THE problem, and ALL of the liberal democrats are terrible candidates...and run dishonest reprehensible and thuggish campaigns.
Look for them to unveil Brown's malicious parking ticket on the eve of the election.
Oh man... if this comes to pass I am gonna be one happy happy man Wednesday morning!!!!!!!
Dunno what they’re so gloomy about. The Democrats have SEIU, ACORN and the Massachusettes (sic) Secretary of State. Seems like they can defraud the voters of Massachusetts at both ends of election.
Approval rating under 40% and dropping.
Ao, this unnamed Democrat tells us that a “terrible candidate” who “ran a terrible campaign” should nonetheless be elected as a US Senator?
Surreal article about Croakley in the WSJ yesterday by Dorothy Rabinowitz.
The Mass State Police union is backing Brown. Love the in house battle.
Have no fear, the goons from ACORN and SEIU will rectify everything. The Kenyan won’t let this slip away so he will have his thugs and miscreants out in force. Arm yourselves and get ready for the revolution. It’s coming.
Now don't any Mass voters decide to not vote after all because it's 'in the bag.' VOTE!!! make it a landslide!!
Massachusetts maybe having another conversion experience, away from leftist policies.
You could be right. I am still shaking my head at our losing in New York’s 23rd District.
NY 23 did not lose. It was stolen.
To me it is clear. Obama’s support is boosted by Blacks. Coke’ly is white. That support boost does not transfer to her.
The Zero has created this monster.
Hilarious that the Dems are saying it is not an Obama problem. Throwing her under the bus because if they say O is the problem it would be racist.
This could turn out to be a great moment for us.
If Brown somehow pulls this out, it’s the end of the Lib/Corruptocrat agenda, and Tammany Hall on the National Mall becomes like a jail for him, as Dems who want to be reelected flee the ONE!
Maybe Coakley and her dem union goons can push another journalist in the dark and assault them. These people are so evil.
Scott seems like a decent guy.
They’ve even dragged out Teddy’s widow to tout that it’s ‘the people’s seat’ LOL!
That stench formerly known as the ‘Kennedy Mystique’ wore off a very long time ago and the most stark evidence of that, was the complete rejection by New Yorkers of a Caroline Kennedy run for the Senate. The gig, shall we say, was up.
The DemocRATs were convinced that Massachusetts wouldn’t vote any other way than Democrat, especially to fill Teddy’s seat, but they miscalculated the mood of the country and now they have a weak candidate. They’ll blame it all on Coakley and her incompetence will allow them to do so, but it really isn’t much of her fault. There have been a great deal of moderate to conservative Democrats in Massachusetts who’ve been waiting patiently for anybody other than another left of center liberal to run for Teddy’s seat.
Obama’s socialist experiments are also some fodder that may lead to a Brown victory. Obama was going to stay home, but he’s going now and that should be a worry for Brown because the President would hardly go there knowing that Coakley could lose… Of course, he thought he could real-in the Olympics too and that didn’t work out very well either. Maybe this will be a repeat of that, but how do they explain a democrat loss? Blaming Coakley will only go so far and Barry will obviously have to accept some responsibility.
“Surreal article about Croakley in the WSJ yesterday by Dorothy Rabinowitz.”
She is the best writer at WSJ. She took a lonely and potentially career ending decsion to stand up against bogus child care molestation cases like Amiriault and the guy in Florida who had been a cop. Janet Reno was behind the FL one and I think Coakley was behind the Amirault case.
The FL was Grant something? Dorothy was the only person fighting to save these men at one point.
Keep in mind the chicken census - Don’t count them before they’ve hatched!
Reno was involved in three cases like that, all of them infamous, and one poor sob is still in prison for imaginary crimes of that nature i.e. Frank Fuster. The other two names which you can look up are Grant Snowden and Bobby Fijnje.
NY-23 - Thank RINOs New GinGrinch and Fat Dede plus the local RINO GOP scum in the district for that one.
That is what has me worried. Until Brown is seated in congress, I won’t believe we really have the seat.
Grant Snowden is the case I remember best. Fuster and his wife engaged in some histronics in the courtroom that did not help his case. I think the wife was probably threatened if she did not testify against him.
Really! I mean, what else could it be, this is MA.
Vigilance, vigilance! Watch ‘em at EVERY poll. They’ll steal it if they can.
To democrats, this kind of news is a call to action: Start stuffing the recount ballot boxes and sending the MA Secretary of State dead fish.
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