I am not saying Brown will beat Coakley, but……

Coakley and the White House are already playing the blame game, and you can figure that, in the end, Coakley will have to find a place under the Magical ObamaBus

The Coakley vs. White House snit fit that Ben Smith is chronicling at Politico is simply too rich to ignore. Predictably, the White House is spinning the “bad candidate” meme while the Coakley camp is pointing a finger at the tin eared, obtuse political strategy of a White House consumed with cramming unpopular policy down on an already energized electorate.

The adviser, who cited internal polling numbers to make the case, e-mails that, “There’s more to the story than that. If Martha is guilty of taking the race for granted, so is the White House and the DNC.”  

The adviser pointed to internal polling to argue that Coakley held a wide — 20 point — lead on Dec. 19, and that the damage she took between that survey and a Jan. 5 Rasmussen poll putting the race at 9 points came from the national scene: The Senate vote on health care, with the controversy over Ben Nelson’s deal for Nebraska, and the Christmas Day bombing.

Obama’s ego is getting in the way of him being any type of success as a president. He is going to lose his big health care bill because of his complete unwillingness to LISTEN to the people. The signs of a major collapse of the Democratic majorities are as plain to see as they could possibly be. Yet, Obama continues to ignore every one of them.

He might get it if he were as perceptive, as Evan Bayh

The White House seems to have its approach figured out: “President Barack Obama plans a combative response” in that case, Politico’s Mike Allen reports. He quotes an unnamed presidential advisor as saying, “The response will not be to do incremental things and try to salvage a few seats in the fall. The best political route also happens to be the boldest rhetorical route, which is to go out and fight and let the chips fall where they may. We can say, ‘At least we fought for these things, and the Republicans said no.’”

Not everyone in the president’s party seems likely to go along for that particular ride. Centrist Democrats, and those who feel vulnerable when it comes to this year’s midterm elections, have already been making life difficult for the White House and for congressional leaders. If a Republican wins in what should unquestionably have been a Democratic seat, they’re likely to push that envelope further.

We’ve already seen one strong bit of evidence on that front: Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., a key Senate Democratic centrist, took a very different stand from the White House’s when he spoke to ABC News about the race.

“[I]f you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up,” Bayh said. He told ABC he believes Democrats have gone too far to the left. “It’s why moderates and independents even in a state as Democratic as Massachusetts just aren’t buying our message … Whenever you have just the furthest left elements of the Dem party attempting to impose their will on the rest of the country — that’s not going to work too well.”

My hope? Keep on dreaming Obama!

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