Why would Coakley go on a week long vacation after dropping 10 points in the polls?

[berni_mccoy]

I learned tonight that at the beginning of December, Coakley was up 20 points in the polls. Just over two weeks later, she's down 10 points in the polls and what is she doing? Going on vacation instead of campaigning. Brown even called her on this during the campaign and used it as a point of "liberal arrogance" to presume she had won already. There was no response on this from the Coakley campaign.

[KittyWampus]

1. Berni, I just did a bunch of reading. And Coakley should be flogged. I bet she didn't even ASK party

in Washington for help. My money says they found out and went in.

No opposition research?

WHAT THE FUCK?

Did she think she was going for President of the Bridge Club?

[ncteechur]

2. cause she sucked as a candidate she let her guard down

[undeterred]

3. Because she's a fool.

[Avalux]

4. Maybe she thought she didn't need to campaign.

Maybe she took for granted it would be an automatic win; no way Democrats would vote a Republican in to replace Teddy.

Well guess what Martha! x(

[valerief]

5. Maybe the WH wanted Brown to win. That way they can blame no HCR on not having

a filibuster-proof Senate.

[cali]

9. ack. I hate teh stupid.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

13. Best LOL of the night.

Series

[berni_mccoy]

15. Indeed.

[valerief]

22. Explain this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4234024

[uponit7771]

18. hate dripping from this post

[Atman]

6. Because she didn't want to lose her cruise ship deposit?

:shrug:

Hey, it's a lot of money.

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[DJ13]

7. Sort of liberal running for the Liberal Lion's seat of 46 years

Overconfidence.

[Danger Mouse]

8. Hubris or stupidity or both.

[Brickbat]

I have to say, there's a dark part of my psyche that's going to find the post-mortem on this

campaign really interesting. I think it's the same part of me that is ready to listen to anything Levi Johnston has to say. And no, I'm not proud of that part of myself. But it's there.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Makes me think of Ned Lamont's Senate campaign. Except

he apparently went on vacation after winning the primary, and never resurfaced until Election Day.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Maybe she was channeling Michael Dukakis.

All sarcasm aside they both took to much for granted somthing one should never do in politics.

Brown spent more time campaigning. People, independants especially, like it when your at least willing to talk to tham.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

12. Bingo. Her campaign was simply awful. My second favorite was the Schilling fuckup.

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[old mark]

16. Coakley is a fucking arrogant idiot. Under her tenure as AG, police in Mass

are arresting and prosecuting people for recording police activities on cell phones. She evidently supports this type of fascism, thought she deserved to win with no effort because she was a "liberal" and female, and was the darling of the Democratic Party in Mass.

The stupidity is just amazing, and I doubt anyone who "matters" will learn anything from it.

mark

[uponit7771]

17. Wait......wait.....she LITERALLY went on vacation?!?!?!?

[berni_mccoy]

19. Yes. Sadly, it's true.

[valerief]

21. Hate dripping from this post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7512474&mesg_id=7513446


Explain this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4234024

[backscatter712]

20. Completely incompetent.

Either she chose to go on vacation as her polls were going in the toilet - complete clusterfuck...

Or national party leaders, in a desperate attempt to unfuck this clusterfuck, told her to go on vacation so she wouldn't get caught on TV saying something stupid, again, in which case it was such a monumental clusterfuck it couldn't be fixed.

In any case, she completely botched it.

[KingFlorez]

23. It's almost like she wanted to lose

Who makes so many mistakes and is so absence during an election? Not even many veteran incumbents would behave like this.