Not in any meaningful way.
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Coakley is such a horrible, horrible candidate.
The state party needs to tell her āEnoughā.
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Charlie-Boy is also getting negative press about the Christie pay-to-play scandal, so sheās going to benefit from that, too.
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This has the makings of a good story. Too bad TPM has chosen not to report that story. Come on TPM, if Coakley is about to blow a race, why not tell us what she is doing or not doing that leads you to that conclusion? Otherwise, all you are doing is a one sentence story, āThe polls show Coakley is neck and neck with her opponent.ā
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No, there was a Magellan Strategies poll (see, worse than Rasmussen) that had Wolf up only 7%, but the Qunnipiac from two weeks ago had Wolf up 17. Real Clear Politics has Wolf up an average of 11%.
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As a mass. resident i could have told you 4 years ago Charlie baker was going to winā¦Coakley is a horrible candidate, and Mass has always been willing to vote moderate republicans into the governors officeā¦no surprise at allā¦that being said, a Massachusetts republican governor is like a Virginia democrat, just more liberal
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We had Don Berwick. You make a list of everything Baker can claim and Berwick can claim it better. He was not only perfect for his strong progressive veiwpoints and policy agenda, but because he held trump cards for everything the people who are supporting Baker, particularly āindependentsā, will argue makes Baker better than Coakley. Better educated, medical professional, better businessman, experience running government agencies and fixing health care systems, saved 100,000 lives in 18 monthsā¦you name it and attach it to Baker and Berwick had a counter and the quiet charisma to go with it.
There is absolutely no question that the Massachusetts Dems party machine completely and utterly screwed the fucking pooch on this, banking on Coakleyās name recognition and the āfirst elected female governorā selling point. Coakley is an unmitigated fucking disaster with all the charisma of soggy toast. If she wins it will be an accident.
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I voted against her in the primary despite her excellent service as Attorney General because she is brain-dead as a politician. Hopefully she wonāt blow it again.
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Sounds like weāre in the same boat 
The poll you refer to is a GOP leaning outfit from Louisiana of all places. No one is taking that figure to heart here. Granted, I never thought Corbett would lose by 20 either, even though it is possible. The prevailing wisdom is the win by Wolf of between 8-10 points. This is still not shabby. What most folks tend to forget, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and their surrounding environs hold about 75% of the voting population in a Democratic registered state. Corbett has screwed too many segments of the population to pull this iron out of the fire. Besides, heās already using language that hints at he knows heās going to lose.
Please note: They are citing likely Republican voters and counting on a low turnout for Democrats. As I said, given how many segments heās screwed - good luck wishing that.
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Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Her turn was supposed to put her in the seat occupied by Elizabeth Warren.
Because it is Sahil Kapur. A truly lazy reporter if ever there was one. Time and time again, Kapur takes the GOP spin/meme and reports it as fact. And shows no effort to try to improve his laziness.
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Pathetic. If she loses, I hope this is the last campaign she runs.
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āHeadlinesā like these make me disrespect TPM. I understand you
want people to read the articles but these kind of post titles are on a par with Buzzfeed. Yes, itās a close race in MA for Governor. Why canāt you use that as a āheadlineā and then talk about it in the post?
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Coakley, too, hasnāt forgotten about 2010. During a televised debate with Baker on Tuesday, she said the biggest misconception about her was that āpeople still think from 2010 that I donāt have a sense of humor and Iām too chilly, and Iāve worked four years to overcome that.ā
āIām warm, dammit,ā she said. āLook at this smile Iām forcing and tell me it doesnāt exude warmth.ā
Methinks she hasnāt learned much in four years, unfortunately.
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How about we wait until Nov 5 before talking about how much of a loser she is?
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You mean āmoderateā Republicans like Mitt Romney? True, he presented himself as a āmoderateā and too many Massachusetts voters fell for it, but he showed his true red colors as soon as he got voted in and started campaigning for President.
(As far as Weld goes, yeah, okay, he actually was more-or-less moderate.)
ETA: If Coakley pulls defeat from the jaws of victory again, maybe the end result will be the same as for the Senate seat she ran, er, strolled for. There will be a Republican in the office briefly, and then weāll get an actual progressive Dem.
Why in the name of God was she nominated. She is a loser. She doesnāt have a clue as to how to run a good campaign. The voters just arenāt in to her.
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From the article you linked to:
The documents being withheld [by Christie] pertain to an investigation of Bakerās $10,000 contribution to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. The contributions came just months before Christie officials gave Bakerās company, General Catalyst, a contract to manage New Jersey pension money. New Jerseyās pay-to-play rules prohibit contributions to state parties from āany investment management professional associatedā with a firm managing state pension money.
Oooooh, this is a much graver example of the sort of thing that got Virginiaās Governor McDonnell in hot water, and thatās even with the almost non-existent corruption laws in Virginia. I hope somebody in Massachusetts is beating the drum on this. (And in New Jersey, too.)
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