Well, Mike Capuano for Senate 2012, anybody?

[liberalpragmatist]

He should have been the nominee this time.

[JI7]

1. why did Bill Clinton endorse Coakley in the Primary ?

[Ildem09]

3. shes a triangulator DLC moderate

[KittyWampus]

5. no. she is actually quite progressive.

[andym]

12. Not according to this NYT article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7503450

[Dinger]

2. Ignorant Question (by Me)

But I have to ask. Is brown's term up in 2012?

[liskddksil]

6. Yes - because it was a special election

he only gets the seat through the end of Ted Kennedy's term.

[JI7]

7. yup, he is up for re-election in less than 3 years

[Cha]

9. It's a special election

to fill in the last two years of Teddy's seat so that's the up side.

Will brown work for the people of Mass and get elected in the regular election in 2012 or will the two years show him to be what he's really like?

[liskddksil]

4. I hope we learn from this that if a candidate is endorsed by the establishment

we should look elsewhere.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Why didn't he win?

Who endorsed Coakley during the primaries,
that made those progressive MA voters for her
as the candidate to face Brown?

[JI7]

10. yup, where was "the base" during that primary ?

[Cha]

11. I've read that she is the

Mass party machine candidate and we know that doesn't always work out so well.

[Jim Lane]

13. I've heard that Capuano was MIA in helping Coakley.

The rap I heard on Capuano was that he did little to help Coakley, figuring that if she won then the seat was hers for life, but if Brown won then Capuano would have another shot in 2012.

From what I've heard about Capuano, I like him, but if he was playing that kind of game, he loses several million points in my book.

I must admit, though, I'm just mentioning rumor. Can you give us any hard facts about what Capuano did or didn't do after losing the primary?