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8. Yeah, but Martha Coakley.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #6)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 05:14 AM

Jun 2016

It takes a very special type of candidate to lose two statewide elections in Massachusetts to very beatable Republican opponents, but if anyone can, Coakley can. If that seat were to be lost, it would almost certainly be because the state party had found a way to nominate her again.

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So far Booker has landed the hardest hits I think [View all] Recursion Jun 2016 OP

yes kimsterdemster Jun 2016 #1

I like him a lot. Too bad he's got a Rethug governor, since it reduces pnwmom Jun 2016 #2

Yeah, same problem with Brown and Warren Recursion Jun 2016 #4

Except Reid has found a loophole in Massachusetts law that reportedly pnwmom Jun 2016 #5

Oh right they put that in during Mittens' term Recursion Jun 2016 #6

But this time we would be controlling the timing -- the clock could start to run pnwmom Jun 2016 #7

Yeah, but Martha Coakley. Station to Station Jun 2016 #8

This is the same state party that kept Whitey Bulger's brother as state speaker? Recursion Jun 2016 #9

Booker has always been a great speaker. nt eastwestdem Jun 2016 #3