Coakley Can’t Run on Her Own Name

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.

It’s Coakley’s Race To Lose

As the heir apparent in the Senate Special Election, this election is Martha Coakley’s to lose. How could a Democrat be fighting for votes in a Special Election for the seat once held by Senator Ted Kennedy? A mere month ago, Scott Brown was dubbed “long shot” and “underdog.” Today, we have a real election on our hands. Did anyone see this coming? Can you remember a time as exciting as now for Massachusetts politics?

How could Martha Coakley have botched this campaign so bad that rather than cruising through the last weeks and days of her allegedly predetermined, “formality” of an election, she is instead hanging by thread, about to fall victim to a profound upset? Did she underestimate Scott Brown? Was she just a horribly candidate? Did she run a horrible campaign? Did she, like most people in the Commonwealth, assume that by winning the primary she had already won the election? It’s not just one of those, it’s all of them.

No matter what happens on Tuesday, what Scott Brown has done is nothing short of miraculous. If his only goal was to gain widespread name recognition…well, who can doubt he’s done that quite successfully. A Republican in Massachusetts in a real race with a Democrat? That alone is a miracle.

Tuesday, January 19th, we go to the polls.

Tuesday, January 19th, we show the country that yet again, the fight for freedom will once again start in Massachusetts.

Let’s make Tuesday, January 19th the day of the Massachusetts Miracle.

Vote for Scott Brown for United States Senate.

Obama Advisers: Coakley Is Going To Lose

The man who made “Yes We Can” a nationally known slogan believes that Martha Coakley is going to lose on Tuesday.

Multiple advisers to President Obama have privately told party officials that they believe Democrat Martha Coakley is going to lose Tuesday’s special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy for more than 40 years, several Democratic sources told CNN Sunday.

The sources added that the advisers are still hopeful that Obama’s visit to Massachusetts on Sunday – coupled with a late push by Democratic activists – could help Coakley pull out a narrow victory in an increasingly tight race against Republican state Sen. Scott Brown.

However, the presidential advisers have grown increasingly pessimistic in the last three days about Coakley’s chances after a series of missteps by the candidate, sources said.

But White House spokesman Bill Burton told CNN: “The President is in Massachusetts today because he believes Martha Coakley is the right person for the job and indeed will be the next senator from Massachusetts.”

It’s sure looking like Scott Brown is poised to become our next Senator.

BREAKING POLL: Brown 50.8%, Coakley 41.2%

A new poll gives Scott Brown a near double digit lead over Martha Coakley in a three-way race!

A poll conducted by the Merriman River Group (MRG) and InsideMedford.com indicates that Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 50.8% – 41.2% in the contest to fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Liberty Party candidate Joe Kennedy pulls in just 1.8% support, while 6.2% of voters are still not sure. Brown and Coakley both have most of their supporters locked in. 98% of both candidate’s supporters say they are definitely or probably going to vote for their candidate. In contrast, 22% of Kennedy’s supporters are just leaning toward him, suggesting that Brown and Coakley may both want to take aim at swaying those voters.

Not surprisingly, nearly all of Coakley’s supporters approve of President Obama’s job performance, while three-quarters of Brown’s supporters disapprove. Coakley may see a glimmer of hope in the fact that more than two-thirds of undecided voters approve of the president’s job performance while only 6% disapprove, especially in light of the president’s swing through the state to campaign for her later today.

The internals of the poll are quite interesting. Clearly, this election is in part a referendum of Obama’s job performance (75% of those respondents who disapprove of Obama’s performance support Brown).

It does appear to me that there is a large number of respondents who identify themselves as “independent,” which may tip the scale in favor of Brown as he polls strongly amongst moderates and independents.

Needless to say, things are still looking good for Scott Brown.

What Did Ted Say About Conscience Protection?

We’ve seen Martha Coakley get real ugly with her attack on Scott Brown, equating his view on conscience protection with denying medical care for rape victims.

So when it comes to what the Democrats call “Ted Kennedy’s Seat,” what opinion is best to serve that seat? Let’s ask…. the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

From Ted Kennedy’s letter to the Pope, delivered by President Obama this summer:

I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field and I’ll continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.

Hey… he said it.

H/T: Dracut Musings