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Massachusetts Senate: Scott Brown Is Running — and Martha Coakley’s Hiding

Posted on | January 3, 2010 | 11 Comments

Republican Scott Brown‘s Massachusetts Senate campaign is gathering momentum. The Jan. 19 special election is to fill Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat (Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment) and, in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, a GOP victory would be a shocking upset.

In addition to the built-in leftward tilt of Massachusetts voters, Brown’s opponent, state attorney general Martha Coakley, has an enormous advantage in terms of both statewide name recognition and campaign cash. So she’s flooding the airwaves with TV ads and — in a campaign version of the NFL “prevent defense” — is trying to run out the clock by refusing to debate Brown and dodging the press:

[The Massachusetts Business Journal] wanted to give Attorney General Martha Coakley the benefit of the doubt when her campaign staff was initially stand offish after we approached them about setting up an interview for our story on the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat.
But then we were put off several times by her staff. We suddenly got the feeling Ms. Coakley, a Democrat, didn’t want to speak with us, and the media in general.

When even the liberal Boston Globe is complaining about Coakley’s disappearing act, you know that reporters are scenting fear. With the growing unpopularity of the Obama agenda, Martha is at risk of becoming that rare breed of loser — a Democrat who gets beat in Massachusetts — and so she’s afraid to answer questions about her record. Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has much more.

(Via Memeorandum.)

Category: Election, Massachusetts, Politics, Senate

Comments

11 Responses to “Massachusetts Senate: Scott Brown Is Running — and Martha Coakley’s Hiding”

  1. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 10:12 pm

    My best to Mr Brown.

    Side note: There’s something graphically disturbing in the image of “Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat”… squashed, despoiled, malodorous. (MHRIH.)

  2. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 5:12 pm

    My best to Mr Brown.

    Side note: There’s something graphically disturbing in the image of “Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat”… squashed, despoiled, malodorous. (MHRIH.)

  3. uberVU - social comments
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 5:25 pm

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  4. JeffS
    January 4th, 2010 @ 1:21 am

    I dropped a few shekels into Mr. Brown’s campaign coffer. My best to him — it’s time to hound the Dhimmicrats back into their holes.

  5. JeffS
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 8:21 pm

    I dropped a few shekels into Mr. Brown’s campaign coffer. My best to him — it’s time to hound the Dhimmicrats back into their holes.

  6. The Blanque
    January 4th, 2010 @ 1:24 am

    Even with Coakley pulling a “Claude Rains” act, it’s still going to be a hard fight for Brown. The GOP isn’t going to kick any funds into a fight they don’t think the Republican candidate can win:

    GOP lets Scott Brown fend for himself

    Hopefully, someone in the upper echelons of the GOP hierarchy will realize that Coakley is weak, and throw some money in the pot.

  7. The Blanque
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 8:24 pm

    Even with Coakley pulling a “Claude Rains” act, it’s still going to be a hard fight for Brown. The GOP isn’t going to kick any funds into a fight they don’t think the Republican candidate can win:

    GOP lets Scott Brown fend for himself

    Hopefully, someone in the upper echelons of the GOP hierarchy will realize that Coakley is weak, and throw some money in the pot.

  8. neitherlooksgood
    January 4th, 2010 @ 3:42 am

    In my small, liberal (75% Democrat) Massachusetts suburban town, I’ve spotted a handful of Brown yard signs and zero Coakley yard signs. Neighboring towns are similar. Either Coakley has no support or she’s so smugly confident of victory that she printed no signs. Neither looks good.

  9. neitherlooksgood
    January 3rd, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

    In my small, liberal (75% Democrat) Massachusetts suburban town, I’ve spotted a handful of Brown yard signs and zero Coakley yard signs. Neighboring towns are similar. Either Coakley has no support or she’s so smugly confident of victory that she printed no signs. Neither looks good.

  10. Sharon
    January 4th, 2010 @ 5:27 am

    Senator Scott Brown Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm!

    Hopefully the mo keeps building and money keeps rolling in. Money bomb is scheduled for January 11. I will donate again then! And to Stacey road trip to MA should he make one.

  11. Sharon
    January 4th, 2010 @ 12:27 am

    Senator Scott Brown Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm!

    Hopefully the mo keeps building and money keeps rolling in. Money bomb is scheduled for January 11. I will donate again then! And to Stacey road trip to MA should he make one.