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| Barry flies in to "aid" Mini Me's re-election bid |
| 2010-10-16 |
 "There is no doubt this is a difficult election," Obama said. "This is a tough political environment." It's a lesson Obama learned firsthand in Massachusetts this year when he swept in to make a last-minute appeal for Martha "Marsha" Coakley, the Democrat seeking to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Despite Obama's backing, Coakley lost the special election to Republican Scott Brown. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 Heh. From a Boston Herald editorial... Asked about the “why” of today’s visit by Barack Obama on his behalf, Gov. Deval Patrick said, “He’s the president of the United States. I haven’t been doing this so long that it doesn’t excite me that the president of the United States would come along and take up our cause.” Other good Democrats, running in other parts of the country, have not been so eager to be side-by-side with this president. But, hey, this is Massachusetts and if Obama didn’t do much to save the Senate campaign of Martha Coakley, well, that wasn’t his fault. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-10-16 12:13 |