Martha Caokley was supposed to be a shoe-in for “Ted Kennedy’s seat.”
Just a little over a month ago she held a solid, “shatter-proof” 19-point lead over any prospective challenger, today polls show her DOWN 4 points to what WAS a cash-strapped, unknown, named Scott Brown!
What happened seems to be a combination of things, (1) Coakley’s run an incredibly, stupendously incompetent campaign, (2) Scott Brown’s run a masterful campaign, including the devastating line the other day in response to his running for “Ted Kennedy’s seat,” to which he rightly replied, “The seat belongs to the people of Massachusetts”...and (3) the incredibly unpopular healthcare reform being foisted on an increasingly unwilling America by an arrogant and tone deaf Obama administration.
Has any U.S. President ever lost favor so quickly?
Barack Obama came into office just a year ago with approval ratings well over 60% and today he finds himself below 50% in almost every reputable poll...and sinking fast!
The non-stimulating stimulus package, threats of a huge “Cap and Trade” energy tax and an abomination of a healthcare Bill have squandered most of the good will Obama carried into office.
He campaigned hard in Virginia
He campaigned hard in very Blue new Jersey
Now, he’s heading up to Massachusetts
Consider that just a few short weeks ago, back in mid-December, the National Republican Senatorial Committee conducted a poll that showed Brown trailing by only 13 points.
Still, Martha Coakley continued operating on the assumption that for all intents and purposes she’d already won the seat with the Dec. 8 primary - a very basic and standard assumption in the state known as the bluest of the blue.
This past Friday, one senior Democratic strategist noted, "I think we overestimated the state's Democraticness and underestimated the national mood. We thought that the state's deep blue voting pattern would help us withstand national trends."
Whoa!
If Massachusetts sends its first Republican Senator in nearly four decades to Washington
Who’d of thunk this?!
