The bad breaks keep piling up for Martha Coakley in her bid for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, with a string of gaffes causing her problems, Democratic strategists predicting the worst and the latest polls suggesting the state attorney general's campaign is missing the kind of enthusiasm that Republican Scott Brown has generated.
President Obama tried to give Coakley a life raft Sunday by stumping for her in Boston and accusing Brown of being a "lockstep" Republican who's looking out for bankers on Wall Street as opposed to the people of Massachusetts.
But while Democrats are trying to portray Brown as a shill for corporate interests, the Republican state senator has been able to project the image of the people's candidate, driving around in his truck and shaking hands while Coakley spurned such shoe-leather tactics.
Coakley's low-key approach to the campaign has drawn recriminations from fellow Democrats who are stunned the race is so close on the eve of Tuesday's special election to fill the seat held for decades by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
"She let it become a personality contest and that was a mistake," said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. "Some of us complained about it and we think it's turned around."
"We are in deep s--- if we lose on Tuesday," a Democratic operative said.
A new poll out of Public Policy Polling on Monday underscored the depth of Coakley's challenge. - FOX News Story
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