Aquila89 wrote:Uh, what did Martha Coakley do? Anyway, she lost; both the Senate election and the gubernatorial election. In Massachusetts. Which is kind of like a Republican losing in Alabama.
Yep, people are saying Alabama 2017 is basically the mirror image of Massachusetts 2009, though it didn't take a sex scandal to sink Coakley. Still, Tess and I (and several other Obama voters we know) voted for Brown because of Coakley's monstrously immoral behavior while in office. And the key takeaway is that both Moore and Coakley had a solid base of people who would voted for them no matter what.
I brought up Coakley because the 2014 gubernatorial race literally didn't matter since the Democrats had a veto-proof majority in both houses, and Democrats who knew about the issues I described in the linked thread still voted for her because Baker was a Republican. They couldn't defend her, they didn't say what she did wasn't wrong, they just said basically "but ... Repubican!"