Coakley May Face Voters' Wrath

I've been busy all day, and haven't really kept up with the news online. (I did see some polls trending heavily for Scott Brown, and I read Andrew Sullivan's totally hysterical take on tomorrow's election -- it's basically end-of-times to hear him.) In any case, here's this from Tuesday's New York Times,"After Career as Their Advocate, Coakley May Face Voters’ Wrath":

Even during a fierce campaign for Senate, Martha Coakley speaks with quiet fervor, a serious woman who has been arguing issues since she was a standout on her Western Massachusetts high school debate team.

Ms. Coakley, the state’s attorney general, gained international recognition as a methodical county prosecutor during the 1997 trial of Louise Woodward, a British au pair convicted of killing a baby boy in her care. Her composed television appearances helped her become the first woman elected district attorney in Middlesex County, the state’s most populous, a year later. In 2006, just as easily, she swept the race for attorney general. Since then, she has won settlements from Boston’s Big Dig contractors and from Wall Street firms that engaged in deceptive practices.

A straightforward progressive on issues from abortion rights to same-sex marriage to the environment, Ms. Coakley, 56, has said she will be the 60th vote in the Senate in favor of health care legislation if she wins the seat long held by Edward M. Kennedy in Tuesday’s special election.

Ms. Coakley captured 47 percent of the vote in the Dec. 9 Democratic primary against three opponents. She was seen as rarely making a misstep, but since then she has been criticized for running a lackluster campaign until polls started showing her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, a state senator, was galvanizing independent voters.

He's surging alright!

And that discussion of Coakley sounds a whole lot nicer than what I've been reading!

See also, Howie Carr, "Want Payback? Vote for Scott Brown!"