Obama to visit Mass for Coakley

[graywarrior]

By Globe Staff

President Obama plans to visit the state Sunday to campaign for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley, who appears to be locked in a close, high-stakes race with Republican Scott Brown with just four days left before the election, the White House confirmed today.

"I think the president sees a pretty clear distinction between a candidate in Martha Coakley who's going to fight for Massachusetts and a candidate on the other side who feels comfortable fighting for the insurance industry and big banks," presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said this afternoon.



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[femmocrat]

1. Hope it helps her.... n/t

[usregimechange]

2. GOTV

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[bigwillq]

4. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

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[graywarrior]

5. Bill did a great job doing that today in Boston

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[jmodden]

14. "The loggers were probably dumber than dirt"

Why did you say that?

An ignorant or careless logger is soon disabled or dead.

[Kat45]

15. He did. DId you go today to see him? I did.

[graywarrior]

16. Yes, I was in the front row.

[shopgreen]

6. Glad to see obama changed his mind and will now go....

As recently as Monday, Gibbs said that Obama had no plans to travel to Massachusetts to campaign for Coakley in the home stretch in the special election to fill the US Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy. Gibbs said in response to a question at a briefing in the White House that the "president doesn't have any travel plans to campaign in Massachusetts," because "it's not on our schedule to go to next week."

But that was before several polls showed Republican Scott Brown gaining momentum, including a survey released today by Suffolk University that had Brown up four points. ........................

[leftygolfer]

9. This will give Coakley the big Mo

It has to. Massachusetts voters are too smart not to know the stakes.

[bigwillq]

11. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[leftygolfer]

12. thank you

I wish my intro was under better circumstances. Just a scared man with not a lot of friends, not a lot of money but a whole host of health issues. I know I'm not alone in that. I always feel better reading DU. I know we'll win on Tuesday. We have to.

[bigwillq]

13. Not alone at all.

A lot of people here are in the same boat. :hug:

[graywarrior]

17. Glad to have you here!

[laughingliberal]

18. +++1000

:hi:

Certainly not alone. Welcome!

[Luciferous]

10. Brown and his daughters will probably go on TV and cry about it

With Obama's plummeting popularity, he might do more harm than good.