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Jan 17, 2010 by News Gatherer
BOSTON — In a last-ditch effort to avert a debacle for the Democrats, the White House announced that President Obama would campaign here on Sunday for Martha Coakley, the Democratic Senate candidate, amid growing signs that the race for Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat has become too close to call.
Obama — particularly if Ms. With a new Suffolk University/7 News poll showing the race in a virtual tie, the announcement is fraught with political peril for Mr. Coakley loses the seat to the Republican, State Senator Scott Brown. Nonetheless, the president’s advisers concluded that Mr. Obama’s fortunes were already tied to the aftereffect of the race, so there was no reason to keep him away from Massachusetts.
Coakley with 46 percent, a result within the poll’s four percentage point margin of sampling error. Brown with 50 percent of the vote and Ms. Several acclamation in recent days indicated that Ms. The special election for the seat is on Tuesday. Coakley was losing an earlier lead, and the Suffolk poll showed Mr.
But with his principal domestic policy initiative at pale — Mr. Brown has already said he would be the 41st and crucial vote against the health care bill — the president decided to risk embarrassment and hit the stump. Obama has already urged Democrats to the acclamation in a video message and recorded telephone messages. Mr.
Mr. The president decided Friday to go to Massachusetts afterwards Ms. Axelrod told reporters that Mr. Coakley called his senior adviser, David Axelrod. Obama would make the case that Ms. Coakley would angle up to the cyberbanking and insurance industries, while her opponent would not.
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