Thread: POLITICO: Obama makes risky bet on Massachusetts Senate race

POLITICO

President Obama makes risky bet on Massachusetts Senate race

By BEN SMITH & JOSH KRAUSHAAR | 1/16/10 9:23 AM EST
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President Barack Obama will travel to Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon to campaign for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley — a risky bet that puts Obama’s own credibility on the line on behalf of a weak candidate in hopes of averting a loss that would shatter the party’s 60-seat Senate supermajority.

Obama’s trip represents a stark, late recognition not just that Coakley may lose, but also that her defeat can’t be spun away. The defection of independent voters and some Democrats in one of the nation’s most liberal states would deal a stunning, and possibly fatal, blow to the centerpiece of Obama’s first-year agenda, health care reform, which congressional leaders would be left trying to jam through using procedural loopholes.

“It’s all about 60,â€

Like Bush in the below 50% approval days, Obama will be the kiss of death for that campaign. He's going to go and try to heard in some sheeple to the polls. They are out there thinking for themselves right now and that's not good, the Dems have to get them in line and voting for the liberal.

Massachusetts, Kennedy's seat is going to the Republicans.

Dixie

[b]A huge block of voters who have a favorable opinion of Obama aren’t with Coakley,â€

[quote]“Given a perfect opportunity to show where his loyalties lie — with working families in Massachusetts or with the bankers on Wall Street who helped lead us into the mess we're in — guess who he chose?â€