The President spoke in Massachusetts to a non-capacity crowd and said that candidate Scott Brown had “Wall Street’s back”, an attack in search of a coherent theme. AP:

“Understand what’s at stake here Massachusetts. It’s whether we’re going forward or going backwards,” Obama said during a rally for Coakley as he tried to energize his dispirited base in this Democratic stronghold. “If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election.”…

“Martha’s opponent already is walking in lockstep with Washington Republicans…She’s got your back, her opponent’s got Wall Street’s back. Bankers don’t need another vote in the United States Senate. They’ve got plenty. Where’s yours?”

Meanwhile, we got an email from Mitch Stewart that read in part: “We’re getting last-minute reports of right-wing groups flooding the state with attacks ads and robo-calls. They’re hoping to defeat Martha Coakley and elect an extreme Republican”. How extreme? This extreme: “Former Boston Red Sox pitcher and World Series champion Curt Schilling and former Boston College and NFL quarterback Doug Flutie appeared with Brown at a rally Sunday in Worcester.”

We hereby present the final evidence that this election has descended to opéra bouffe on the part of the Democratic Party: “Barney Frank, when asked whether Coakley’s recent dip in the polls was related to sentiments about President Obama, quipped, ‘President Obama is not Martha Coakley in drag’.” One can only marvel at the thought process that culminated in that particular sentence.

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