Historical BACKSTORY – Martha Coakley was the Democrat in Massachusetts who the DNC selected to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat.    Feeling sure she would win the January 2010 election, against unknown Republican Candidate Scott Brown, Mrs. Coakley went on a 3 week Caribbean Christmas vacation.
It wasn’t only Martha who was so confident.  The media and political punditry was so certain only a Democrat could win the seat that polling was never even scheduled, requested, or paid for.  No-one was even polling the electorate leading up to the election.
A tanned and relaxed Coakley returned to Massachusetts in the first week of January only to find out that Scott Brown’s campaign rallies were massive, growing and full of enthusiastic supporters.   After she picked her jaw off the floor she quickly begged President Obama to come rescue her.   It didn’t work.
That was 2010.   This is 2014, same lady now running for Governor: