Can it be real? The new Suffolk/Boston Herald poll has Scott Brown in the lead, 50-46 percent! And almost nobody is undecided. Independents are crushing Coakley, going more than 2-1 for Brown.
If this is true, than the Democrat who said “it’s too late” for Coakley is right. Mark Steyn nails the Dems’ problem:
Even if you're a Democrat, somewhere deep down you know that Martha Coakley wasn't what your party needed at this stage in the political cycle - a grim hack career pol embarrassingly stupid and inarticulate on matters domestic (if you're religious, don't work in an emergency room) and foreign (my sister can see the Middle East from her house) who reacts to awkward questions by complaining the press is stalking her and standing by as aides send them crashing to the sidewalk, and whose entire campaign has no rationale other than hereditary entitlement.
Add up all the polls, and the bottom line is that Scott Brown’s latest ad is dead-on: “I can’t do it alone. It’s up to you.”
For once, voters of Massachusetts, it really IS up to you.
"The truth is something [Warren] probably prefers not to confront. Harvard doesn’t come calling just because you’re a smart lawyer and a terrific teacher — not with Warren’s modest, Oklahoma upbringing and non-Ivy League education. She is not your typical Harvard professor. At a certain point, when the law school was under pressure to promote diversity, she represented a three-fer: a great lawyer with a national profile, a woman, and a minority, at least by virtue of family lore. "
-- Joan Vennochi
