Coakley Can’t Run on Her Own Name
TAGS: Barack Obama, John Kerry, John McCain, Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Ted Kennedy.
What’s really, really sad about Martha Coakley’s campaign is that it isn’t about her. It about hatred for Scott Brown, it’s about hatred for Bush/Cheney, it’s about Ted Kennedy.
Compare that to Scott Brown’s campaign, where the enthusiasm is genuinely for Scott Brown and his message.
In fact, Martha is trying again again to save her campaign by rolling out the Ted Kennedy card again with DoingItForTeddy.org.
This is a sad, desperate attempt by Coakley that is not going to work. Past elections have shown that the anti-vote doen’t beat the pro-vote. Let me explain.
In 2004, John Kerry’s “support” was mostly the anti-Bush vote, not a pro-Kerry vote. He lost.
In 2008, conservatives were not excited about John McCain, and he lost that election because Obama had more positive support.
In 2010, Scott Brown clearly has more positive support than Coakley does. Coakley knows this, but has no choice. She has to run on a negative campaign against Brown, and using Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy to boost her support.
And it’s not just Coakley, it seems clear to me from the people “supporting” Coakley on Twitter that they most are anti-Scott Brown, because all they can do is attack him.
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Matt Margolis is co-author (with Mark Noonan) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at The Buffalo Bean. Follow Matt on Twitter.
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