Martha Coakley was a terrible candidate.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

Is there no one else willing to run for elected office in Massachusetts?

[morningfog]

1. Both times.

[Agschmid]

2. You should qualify your statement, clearly others a willing to run just ask Charlier Baker.

And this can't just be laid at her feet, this is a failure on so many levels.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

6. I'm not blaming her personally.

I'm blaming the lack of attractive candidates in general, it's an establishment problem. After she was embarrassed in the senate race you would think someone better would step up.

[Cha]

3. Never mind.. I just saw she's running for Gov. :(

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. She's running for governor.

And it's far too close.

[Cha]

5. Thanks.. I just edited it.. Darn.. Good Luck in Mass, FTC!

[sheshe2]

8. we lost.

i am so depressed~

[Cha]

9. Oh she..

So sorry.. it's like a gop hate fest sweep.. except for a few bright spots.. that are getting buried right now.

:

[sheshe2]

11. Another fricking GOP Governor, Cha!

They just love to screw us over here! Dammit!

At least Edward Markey will be going back to the Senate. And we did this~

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251383911

Tears~

to us all now.

[Cha]

14. Good for Senator Markey! I was wondering with all the gop shite flying around. :( I just looked at

Hawaii and it looks like Brian Schatz-Dem.. won for Senator.. but, we still don't have our Gov yet.. very freaking out right now.

Schatz wins U.S. Senate race

Democrat Brian Schatz easily won Hawaii's U.S. Senate race Tuesday, holding on to the seat he was appointed to after the 2012 death of longtime Sen. Daniel Inouye, according to an Associated Press projection.

Schatz was widely favored to win in heavily Democratic Hawaii against Republican Cam Cavasso in a special election to finish the two remaining years of Inouye's term. Polls ahead of Election Day showed Schatz ahead by a wide margin.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/elections/20141104_brian_schatz_wins_us_senate_race.html

[sheshe2]

15. Glad Schatz won, Cha.

Is the Governors race to close to call? Never should have been here or Connecticut, but it was. Don't know how they made out.

Dammit it all!

[Cha]

17. By this.. they are still waiting for results in Connecticut.. and they did have voting problems in

Hartford.. earlier today.

Malloy, Foley Await Results In Connecticut Gubernatorial Race

November 4, 2014 11:19 PM

“If you believe that everything that we’ve done is just a down payment for the next four years; if everything we’ve accomplished is just the beginning of what we can do together, I hope you showed up to the polls today,” said Devon Puglia of the Connecticut Democratic Party."

snip//

Multiple polling stations in Hartford did not receive printed voter lists in time for the 6 a.m. start of voting, said Av Harris, spokesman for the secretary of the state’s office.

Malloy himself had to wait 35 minutes when he voted in Hartford about 7:45 a.m., said Mark Bergman, a spokesman for the governor’s campaign.

Two Hartford polling places extended their hours to 8:30 p.m. following a judge’s ruling spurred by the delays.

MOre..
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/11/04/connecticut-governor-race-tight-as-polls-open/

It must be too close to call in Hawaii.. everything I google does not show any results. My computer is having internet connection probs again too.. so I have to choose what I'm doing carefully.

Sooo Good Luck to Gov Malloy, she!

[sheshe2]

18. Hope they both make it Cha!

Getting late, but going to stay up for a bit more.

Best to you~

[cilla4progress]

7. I was so pissed at her in 2008

with her crap campaign, and that Chicago guy - Obama's chief of staff (can't recall his name - real asshole) who let that race slip through Dem fingers. She would have been the 60th Dem Senator (as I recall) - who could have gotten something decent in place with universal health care. She ran for Teddy's seat. Instead it was Scott Brown.

Feel free to correct me if my recollection is wrong.

I'm getting tired of Democratic political incompetence in terms of campaigns. I think they are mostly too weak-kneed. They just don't get it.

[frazzled]

10. Why is it that Obama ...

(or in your case, "Obama's guy" (who had nothing to do with that race)) being blamed for Democratic losses?

I saw on MSNBC a while ago that Pat Quinn's loss in the Illinois Governor's race was being blamed on Obama, because the president came out to campaign for him. (Well, he went to a rally on the deep South Side to try to get African American voters to the polls in Chicago; and I just checked: Quinn won with more than 77% in the city of Chicago). They said it was a big loss for Obama.

So I guess we should say that Martha Coakley's losing is a big loss for Elizabeth Warren, and for that matter,, Hillary Clinton ... because both of them campaigned for Coakley.

You know what is worse than all these losses? The crappy analyses of these losses.

[cilla4progress]

12. Not "Obama's guy"

"Chicago guy"...first of all...

Why don't we try to hang together a little bit, tonight. That's what I'm seeing on other threads. It's nice.

[frazzled]

16. Excuse me?

It's your post that is a precise example of not hanging together. Blaming a prior election loss on anyone but the candidate and the Massachusetts electorate is hardly an example of hanging together.

The "Chicago guy" had nothing to do with Scott Brown winning in 2010. Chiefs of staff don't run elections or election strategy. See, this kind of crazy talk is precisely why Democrats do badly: we don't hang together. Until we can get a handle on reality--which is that (a) the country, and even states like MA and IL are a lot more conservative than we like to admit; and (b) sometimes our candidates are very weak and timid and unwilling to step up to the plate.

I'm very sad about tonight. But I'm not surprised. I was in MA last weekend and heard Martha Coakley talking on the radio and on televison. My only reaction was "face palm." I also used to live in MA and know that they like to elect Republican governors every other cycle and that the state as a whole is not as liberal as people would like to think. Like my current state, Illinois ... where downstate conservatism and suburban moderation often outweighs urban progressivism. Gov. Pat Quinn won the city of Chicago by nearly 78% tonight. But he lost to a Republican. It's life.

I'm ready to get over it. But I'm not going to make up fairy-tale blame games with bogey men to satisfy my need for an explanation that excludes realities.

I'm a loyal Democrat. So don't tell me to "hang together."

[Chathamization]

13. There were other candidates in the primary, but just about no one bothered to show up to vote, and

Coakley's support from 6% of eligible voters was enough for her to win the primary. This is what happens when no one gives a damn about elections.