Since When Are Democrats Afraid of Debates?

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6. Not exactly. IIRC, Coakley did not get a lick of help from the DNC.

No one even campaigned for her, until Vickie Kennedy, who did not even like Coakley, started. (Coakley had been the only hopeful to open a campaign office before Kennedy passed. That did not sit well. It was on the route of Kennedy's funeral cortege, too, so his family had to pass by it. Still, I guess Vickie could not bear the idea of Kennedy's seat going to a Republican.)

Not a single national Democratic officeholder or party luminary campaigned for her, though Bubba had made a trip to support her in the primary, supposedly as a payback for Coakley's support of Hillary in 2008. (Most Massachusetts politicians did support Hillary then and the state did go for her.)

As of news dump Friday before the election, the White House was saying Obama had no plans to come. On Saturday, the White House announced he'd be there Sunday night, and he was. That was it.

Meanwhile, the Kochs were backing Brown, he had the Romney campaign advisor team and every Republican who had run for President in the prior Presidential was here campaigning for him, Romney, McLame, Ghooliani, all of them.

The disparity was jaw dropping. No other Democratic contest going on anywhere in the nation at that time and the 60th seat in the Democratic caucus at stake.