From the Sun Chronicle:

Martha Coakley is starting to look like a figure out of a Greek tragedy. The state attorney general has made another political miscalculation, one that could conceivably cost the Democrats the second most important statewide office, just as her earlier miscalculation cost the Democrats what should have been a safe U.S. Senate seat.

It’s hard to fathom how one candidate could cause so much havoc in her own party. First Coakley opened the door for Scott Brown’s election to the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Now she has opened the door for the Republicans to win Coakley’s own seat as Massachusetts attorney general.

In the race to fill Kennedy’s seat last January, Coakley ran a poor campaign. She avoided retail politics, coming off as aloof and entitled. The message was Massachusetts voters wouldn’t dare elect a Republican to succeed Kennedy. That, of course, turned out to be wrong. All that Wrentham Republican Brown needed to win was a last-minute burst of advertising financed from out of state.

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