The Massachusetts Senate Result

Here’s my report from last night for TIME.com.

Massachusetts Senate Race: Election Night

6: 32 p.m.: I’m set up in the ballroom where the Scott Brown campaign will be holding their election night party, and am happy to report the wi-fi is working just fine. What to watch for tonight? There won’t be any exit polls, so people will be counting the ballots the old-fashioned way. It could [...]

Massachusetts Senate Race: Election Day

NOTE: I’ll be updating this post throughout the day. I’ve been up here for only a day, but it’s hard to detect anything that looks good for Democratic nominee Martha Coakley, the state’s Attorney General. Her election-eve rally at a gym in a Framingham middle school was three-quarters empty; someone on the campaign had pulled [...]

The Massachusetts Nail-Biter

The Boston Globe’s Adrian Walker has an interesting take on how Martha Coakley came to find herself in this spot three days before an election that everyone expected to be a blowout. And the NYT looks at the implications for the health care bill. We are once again hearing talk of using the reconciliation process [...]

Is Martha Coakley Trying To Lose The Senate Race?

This is not a good thing to be saying right before a closer-than-expected election: Despite that, there is a subdued, almost dispassionate quality to her public appearances, which are surprisingly few. Her voice is not hoarse from late-night rallies. Even yesterday, the day after a hard-hitting debate, she had no public campaign appearances in the [...]