Kristol parses a new poll:
The most striking finding in the Suffolk/7 News poll is that Brown has a 57 percent favorable/19 percent unfavorable rating. Coakley’s fav/unfav is 49/41. There are all kinds of difficulties with polling a special election, especially in terms of turnout—there are no real precedents from which to judge who’s really going to vote. Still, in a normal race, those fav/unfav numbers would suggest the contest is more likely to break wide open than to tighten. But that’s awfully hard to believe. And the Democratic assault on Brown this weekend will be massive.
This is about the awfulness of the candidacy of Martha Coakley and the arrogance of the Massachusetts Democratic establishment (whence, one might add, much of the leadership of the Human Rights Campaign is drawn.) The Dish's summary of her dreadful record and appalling campaign is here.
The Dish 