2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 2013 MA US Senate Election Special Election. [View all]NHDEMFORLIFE
(489 posts)I have said this in other posts but feel compelled to repeat:
Scott Brown was the creation of an awful, awful, AWFUL campaign run by Martha Coakley. As bad a year as 2010 was for Democrats, Coakley acted as if she were Teddy Kennedy reincarnated and could proceed as such.
Brown won 47 percent of the vote this year against Elizabeth Warren. In the last poll I saw, he stood at 47 percent. His approval rating was 10 points higher; what that says to me is that people think he is a swell guy, but ...
The Democratic Party in Massachusetts has been spotty in gubernatorial elections. It has lost one US Senate election since 1976 - the special election to Scott Brown.
This one will not be held in the dead of winter, will not be held at the start of an awful Democratic year, and will not be run against a breathtakingly bad candidate.