Right now, media, and blogs are busy criticizing Democrats, or the MA Democratic candidates, as if they wanted her to lose.
As for the Democrats, they are busy either screwing up ads
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/01/15/dscc_ad or telling the media that she has lost and how they will pass HCR without her.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
I don't buy it. What's going on is similar to the dreadful behavior of the Dem party during the 2004, and for that matter, the 2000, presidential election. Democrats had two candidates who were both vastly superior in every way, shape, and form, to their Republican rival (a manifestly incompetent sociopath named George W. Bush). There campaigns were mishandled when they weren't simply unsupported. Their efforts were all but deliberately undermined. Could Gore and Kerry have been better candidates? Sure, they made mistakes, but the lack of genuinely serious support and defense that they received from the Dem party was, imo, decisive.
And here are the Democrats, working overtime to help Coakley not only lose, but lose really fucking badly. This is completely inexcusable political malpractice. But I'll bet there are a few commenters who will find a way to excuse this, or dismiss it as a trivial error, or place the fault with Coakley.