From MSNBC, January 15, 2010.
“Obama to stump for endangered Mass. Dem
Poll shows GOP candidate up; race could tip Democrats’ 60-vote majority”
“BOSTON – His health care bill at stake, President Barack Obama plans a trip to Massachusetts to campaign for endangered Senate Democratic candidate Martha Coakley amid release of a poll showing an edge for the Republican Party in the race to fill a Senate seat Democrats have held for over a half-century.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that Obama would appear at an event for Coakley in Boston on Sunday.
A Suffolk University survey released late Thursday showed that Brown, a Republican state senator, with 50 percent of the vote in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in this overwhelmingly Democratic state.
Coakley had 46 percent. That amounted to a statistical tie since it was within the poll’s 4.4 percentage point margin of error, but it was far different from a 15-point lead that Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general, enjoyed in a Boston Globe survey released over the weekend.”
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34876791/ns/politics-more_politics/
“President Obama: Support Martha Coakley for U.S. Senate”
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Will Obama’s visit to MA help Martha Coakley or hurt her?
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