Wasteland

Karen Tumulty is live-reporting from Massachusetts:

[Coakley's] election-eve rally at a gym in a Framingham middle school was three-quarters empty; someone on the campaign had pulled a curtain across the midpoint of the gym, so that it wouldn't look even worse. (This "packed house" photo of the event by the campaign nothwithstanding.) The candidate came onstage to the "Rocky" theme–an extraordinary choice, given that she at one point had been sitting on a 30-point lead in some polls.

What worries long-time Democrats in the state even more, they tell me, are the other omens they are seeing–not just an accelerating deterioration in the polls, but also yard signs for her opponent, state Senator Scott Brown, in neighborhoods where they had never seen even a stirring of life for the GOP.