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Despite Kennedy loss, Coakley has no GOP opponent
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| Last Edited | TX DEM Apr 26, 2010 07:37pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The January weekend after Democrat Martha Coakley lost a supposedly can't-miss election for U.S. Senate, "Saturday Night Live" underscored the graveness of her political future with a skit where a Barack Obama impersonator labeled her "the single most incompetent candidate ever to seek public office in this nation's history."
Three months later, Coakley faces the very real prospect of being re-elected as Massachusetts attorney general this fall without a Republican opponent.
The shift reflects lingering weakness within the state GOP, despite its success in staging Scott Brown's upset win.
It also highlights Coakley's work to rehabilitate her image, as well as the satisfaction some voters feel for her in her current role.
"There is some irony in that," said Paul Watanabe, a political science professor at UMass-Boston. "In some ways, it's as though the January election didn't take place, or that at least it did not have the consequences for her own political future - or opportunity for the Republicans - that virtually everyone was talking about on Jan. 20."
Coakley acknowledges she's monitoring the progress of a potential Republican challenger, but says she won't let her guard down until May 4 - if then. Prospective candidates have until that day to submit the signatures of 10,000 registered voters for review by city and town clerks. |
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