Marsha Coakley was up 10+ points over Scott Brown in MA too...look how that election turned out!!...(granted it went to shit AFTER the election, but it was at least heartening to see the libs in MA vote for a ‘Republican’)
Not so. Conservatives and republicans joined forces to vote for Brown the first time around, while the lib turnout was depressed due to Marsha's awful campaign and Brown's stellar campaign, and most of all, it was a special election with low turnout.
All of that was reversed the second time around.
That was a bogus, Boston Globe-commissioned poll.