Washington (CNN) - Multiple advisers to President Obama have privately told party officials that they believe Democrat Martha Coakley is going to lose Tuesday’s special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy for more than 40 years, several Democratic sources told CNN Sunday.
The sources added that the advisers are still hopeful that Obama's visit to Massachusetts on Sunday - coupled with a late push by Democratic activists - could help Coakley pull out a narrow victory in an increasingly tight race against Republican state Sen. Scott Brown.
However, the presidential advisers have grown increasingly pessimistic in the last three days about Coakley's chances after a series of missteps by the candidate, sources said.
But White House spokesman Bill Burton told CNN: "The President is in Massachusetts today because he believes Martha Coakley is the right person for the job and indeed will be the next senator from Massachusetts."
Updated: 5:18 p.m. with comment from Bill Burton
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Obama says Coakley will be against special interest groups while he is making deals with the Unions/ACORN,the Drug Companies,and such. He allowed congress to give away Billions in bailouts with no strings attached,and it is Congress who has oversight authority,so Ask the Dimocrats why now they are whinning?
Change is coming at last!!!
As a Democrat I believe that yes the Democrats will lose some seats in the upcoming Elections but not lose the House or Senate there majority will decrease somewhat but not much!
Take Back America! Vote for CHANGE! Vote Scott Brown!
I hope they are right it will be the best thing that could happen for this country. Maybe just maybe the democrats will then realize people don't want the cap & scam and ration healthcare bills but I doubt that they will realize that even if she does lose.
Hmm, I guess this is why he flew out to Mass to help her fledging campaign. Wonder who's footing the bill for this trip. Can we say..
more money more money out of our pockets.
hopefully clokley wont win.she is a major disaster.you can look at her and tell.brown is going to win this race.we have got to get republicans to take back the house and senate.obama and the democrats are going to destroy and break this country.there is nothing wrong with the health care system.the american people are not stupid.lets stand up and take this country back.
I am sooooooooo excited about Tuesday's election.
GO SCOTT BROWN!!!!!
Maybe it's me, but I get the sense the auditors completed their work and gave advise that it's best to let it fail....at least at this point...
so what may be a public perception of defeat may actually be their inner truth of relief.
We can only hope this will end up being a brave new step for Mass. The policies of Kennedy,Clinton,Obama need to be stopped now,before it's too late. This country can't continue spending money hand over fist as it has been doing this past year. Mass. think about your children and your children's children-they are the ones who are going to have to pay for all this nonsense.
As a small business owner and member of the South Asian community, I have been an independent voter. During the Bush years, I have consistently supported the Dems and voted for Obama in 2008. To my surprise, Obama is more of the same...he continues the wars abroad and trillion dollar deficits. He expects my tax dollars to pay for elective abortions and is a far left liberal. I will be voting for Scott Brown, an independent voice for America.
No way cause a gop win will – apocalypse
Obama, and his thick-as-thieves relationship with the bourgeoisie, Wall Street dictatorship, IS the reason we aren't "inspired" to make it out to the polls. How about the Democratic party offer the People a candidate who is actually a progressive, who would actually make the statement that Americans are entitled to food, shelter and medicine? Oh, wait. The Democrats would never do that because Wall Street wouldn't like it. Do they seriously expect us to get up off the couch so we can vote for a milquetoast corporate lackey like Martha Coakley? This country will descend into a barren capitalist wasteland. I'm done looking to the Democrats for representation.
why would people be so quick to go back to the Republicans who showed for 8 years that they can not and will not lead well?
How many people in Mass. believes Catholics shouldn't serve in emergency rooms,as Coakley does, because of their convictions.
That is such bologna being reported as "news"....please, I live in Massachusetts and she will win.
Terrific news!!!!!
And Obama going to campaign for her (as he did for the Olympics, Corzine, Global Warming, etc) will almost guarantee a loss. Lets hope!
I sincerely hope that Coakley loses. Obama still doesn't understand that his policies are harmful and are unpopular with the American people. He is not listening to us and a Republican victory in Massachusetts might finally force Obama to realize that Americans do not support his Marxist agenda.
Great setup. If she loses, it is because of a series of her missteps. If she wins, it's because Obama saved the day. What a buffoon this "president" is.
One can only hope that the smelly, corrupt piece of legislation that is supposed to be a reform of health care, is defeated by the election of this man who has the good of his country first in his heart.
if this adviser is correct then coakley's name will be Mudd with the DNC after the election. maybe she can join the Tea Party when the dems kick her to the curb.
the end of Obamacare.....the end of the socialist agenda.....the end of big spending...the end of destructive taxes.....
If they want to do healthcare reform, start over and do it the right way...the bipartisan way....with no arrogance.....no closed door meetings......no bribes.....
If it's a good law, you shouldn't have to do all of the above....
That's Right....Bye Bye Martha! So Long Democratic HOLD On Massachusetts....start letting your people breathe and grow into productive and happy people.....Democrats have destroyed that state!
Oh the joy of this news having to be printed here in obummer's Community Central Network
Awesome!
Scott Brown is the read deal, friends. Martha Coakley a.) Hates Christians, b.) is not firm about ANYTHING she stands for or against, c.) hates the Red Sox.
Martha Coakley won the primary and suddenly thought she had won the entire race. Foolhardy progressive Coakley!
I disagree, but what do I know.
What I do know is that Brown is a regurgitated Romney offshoot who probably uses cialis.
Names or it didn't happen.
I can't believe the good people of MA would let The Kennedy Legacy end with a republican taking a seat that belonged to the best advocate for the people of MA. Don't you think this health care bill is part of Ted Kennedy's Legacy. Of course it is. Don't let Ted Kennedy's Dreams for Our Nation and for the State of Massachusetts die by voting in a republican who will only continue with the Bush Legacy.
That says it all. It is over.
Go Scott Brown, the next US Senator from MA!
I agree that Coakley will lose!
Americans really need a big victory. Martha Coakley must be defeated. The current Congress and White House is so arrogant and a message needs to be sent them: YOU WORK FOR US. WE THE PEOPLE, DON’T WORK FOR YOU
Obama has shown that the best way to do well by him is to be a trial lawyer or a union member, he has shown nothing but contemp for tax payers. Brown's victory will show that we are sick and tied of moving toward socialism. Obama speaks poisonous words about the banks that have paid back TARP funds plus interest but says nothing about the 50 billion in TARP funds used to prop up ancompetative UAW contract.
Barry went to Boston to push down the handle down on that democrat toilet
This administration has had a serious hearing problem. After Scott Brown wins, he will send Obama a set of Hearing Aids.
A HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
You libs couldn't handle "Power" for 1 year without screwing things up and having even massachussetts go GOP.
Can't wait til 2010!!!
My prayers are being answered.
Hard to even imagine how this happened!
And why would any "Obama adviser" tell Ed Henry this?
Yes I'm sure they do believe that! But they are feeling the heat, and they are not liking it.
Missteps by the Canidate? That is putting it lightly.
"Sources: Obama advisers believe Coakley will lose"......at last, he got something right.
Let's hope so. I can't afford to pay 1,000's of dollars to the insurance cartel out of my own middle income pocket.
BTW, that's how they plan to "extend coverage" forcing you to buy insurance.
Hopefully they are wrong!
Scott Brown voter this is not the time to let up.
There is no other reason for BHO to perform this intervention skit than for the opportunity to counsel Martha Coakley to seek Jesus Christ post-haste.
What a disaster. The Democrats need to get rid of the filibuster a.s.a.p.
The real story is that Massachusetts may again lead the nation to take back our country from a corrupt administration.
Wow, the degenerates over at DU are already calling the term 'obamster' racist. That sure didn't take long.
what a bunch of advising idiots.....
Coakley is going to lose no matter what the liberal, conniving Democrats do. The people of Massachusetts don't want her to represent them - they don't want Socialism.
Massachusetts - and all Americans for that matter - want freedom and liberty. And that's what Scott Brown will fight for in Washington.
I hope he is right this can put a road block in the health care issue. maybe president obama will hear us now!!!!!
The nation is watching and praying that MA will send a message to Washington by electing Scott Brown. We've seen the exercise of total raw political power like we've rarely seen in this country. The arrogance, the ego, the corruption and the incompetence are hurting our country badly. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the $60 billion payoff for the unions and the trillions in spending and debt for the special interest must end. Its rare one election can make such a difference, but MA can send a freezing cleansing artic blast to Washington DC. Start the cleanup MA, start the cleanup!!!
I am a registered Dem and I am voting for Brown
I also am a registered Dem and I was at Northeastern today. Who does Obama think he's fooling. I am voting for Brown.
Well I hope that his advisers are finally right!! I will take gridlock over what we have been experiencing for the past year from this big spending administration!!
It looks like these political advisers are performing an early CYA. I'll wager that if Coakley wins, these same advisers will credit the WH for the victory.
name the sources. Why let them hide behind fake journalism??
Some in the media are already talking of the Martha Coakley campaign in the past tense, as if the race is already over. No doubt this will have the effect of depressing Democrat turn-out even further. It's not out of the question that Scott Brown will have a much larger than anticipated victory. Imagine if he wins by a margin greater than 55 to 45.
If the republican gets it.. then he will be the United States biggest Democracy killer of all time.. making the Filibuster the ruler of the Land in America...Democracy ?.. I don't think so.. whats wroung with 51 out of 100 votes is a Democracy ...a majority vote.....No?
Coakley should and will lose. Lets get serious about healthcare reform. Pelosi and Reid are corrupt. Healthcare reform proposal:
1. Medical Malpractice Reform
2. Don't tax health insurance, in fact give tax deduction for it!
3. Let insurance companies operate across state lines
4. Eliminate pre-existing condition exclusions
5. Allow patients to buy drugs from Canada
6. Expand and improve healthcare savings accounts
7. Train more doctors/nurses/physical therapists.
8. All states (including Nebraska) should share in the costs
9. All people (including union workers) should be treated equally
So I guess it's not private anymore? So why would the president spend [waste] time going to Boston to pull for a loosing candidate and use what is left of his political capital tying his agenda to her run?
Where is our Faith, Belief, Trust, people. Find it, keep it, and good things will happen, even in bad times.
Hmm, it's not "private" speculation if sources are leaking it to a national news outlet like CNN, now is it?
I am convinced that AG Martha Coakley will win, unless the Democratic base stays home because of frustration against their party for not fighting enough for the middle class and poors.
This is almost the same scenario as before the primaries Obama-Hillary at MA, the polls were showing that the race was tied, but it was not the case when the result came up. Hillary pulled off very big.
I would also say that this situation should be a serious wake up call for President Obama and the Democratic Party. They have to keep their base happy. Otherwise, they would be in serious trouble in November. They would alone face the GOP base. The Democratic base as well as the middle class and poors would stay home.
You cannot keep asking the base to give you 60 votes in the US Senate when you aren’t using those votes for their best interests. It isn’t so hard to understand
Vote for balance, vote for Scott Brown!
calling a boston icon a "yankee fan", in jest or otherwise, suggests,
...a loser!!!
Don't you all at CNN wish that...it would make for a better story. But since it seems like all the polls are being taken by republicans who can believe them. There is an overwhelming number of democrats in Mass. All they needed was a push and they will send that slime bucket with his nudeo pictures to the dump where he belongs.
Failure or Hope
Let us hope and pray to Almighty God that for once the Obama advisers are right.
Lets hope she looses. Anyone who is so desperate to run despicable ads should never be elected for public office.
This would not be such a big deal if the Republicans wasn't threatening to ruin the Democrats at every turn. They already had eight years under Bush to mess this country up.
The President's advisors have finally got something correct.
Brown is the superior candidate..., better spoken, quicker on his feet, solid in his beliefs. Coakley shows surprising weakness and all the Democrat carpetbaggers that have been brought in an attempt to make up for her ineptness simply underline her lack of personal strength or organizational competence.
I starting to feel sorry for Barry
He believes she will do his bidding, period. What dunces are these Mass. voters who elected Edward Kennedy for 40 years? Time to grow up, girls!
Nuthin else to do on a Sunday afternoon I guess.....why not burn a little gas and fly up to Boston
Like Curly from the Three Stooges would say...Yuk Yuk Yuk...Too bad Obama...
Massachussetts special election is Referendum on Obama. Democrats can expect more of this in November. People are very angry. their anger is directed at Obama and the democratic controlled Congress and Senate. Abuse of power inflicted by democrats is unforgivable especially for thinking Americans – people using common sense, people looking for substance not style.
Intrade currently shows Brown at 61 & Coakley at 41, while not scientific, the current momentum is with Brown. I believe Health Care Reform is the driving force, followed by the thought people are a bit distrustful of the way the House and Senate have run things this past year. Yeah, I know the Dem's have run them together since 2006, but nobody cares.
Obamas advisers should be telling him that the exemption for union workers from the health care tax is the last straw.
I might have agreed that the healthcare bill was the right thing to do before that deal was made.
Now, for the first time in my life, I feel like Im getting screwed by the government and theres nothing I can do about it.
Let's hope there are no shenanigans and the count is legitimate and fair. Good luck, Mass! Do the right thing! Go Scott Brown!!
Obama's speech made it worse for Coakley by making fun of Scott Brown driving his old truck campaigning all over Massachussetts. Blue collar workers use their truck to go to work; Obama in that speech looked down on them. Obama has shown his elitism, what a shame. He did not help Coakley, it's the opposite.
When you look down on people especially working men and women, they have the habit of turning around and punch you right in the mouth.
The last statement from the White House spokesperson is exactly why people are fed up with politicians and Washington DC. They lie right to our face and then consider us dumb. Do they actually expect us to believe that blatant lie? Obama's only doing this for the 60th vote on health care. End of story. Well the people are letting them get away with it no more!
The Mass. election results now irrelevant. All Dems now see that the bluest state in Union at best can be held only with a full-court press. What's gonna happen to Dems that support Obama Nation where life ain't so Blue?
I am hopeful Scott Brown will be the next Senator from Mass. We need some common sense in the Senate. It is obvious based on the backroom deals so far they need help to bring some balance in our government.
Hold on folks, Massachusetts is only the beginning. The gig is up for the Pelosi – Reid Politburo.......The Marxist currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is going to bleed slowly for the next 3 years. It will be interesting to watch these Radical Leftists gag on their own vomit.
Sad thing is that the majority of voters could not identify this Joker before they voted for him. We will be digging out of the mess he creates for a long time.....let's just hope we learn from this lapse of judgement!
Obama makes Bush's mistakes seem very trivial in comparison!
And an MSNBC host says they should cheat so Brown doesn't win....
I saw the Coakley/Obama rally thisafternoon, and saw something. I saw that Martha Coakley doesn't really want this job. She thought she could cakewalk into it, and when she learned that she had to work for it, she folded. Obama saw this too. It took him fifteen minutes to hit his stride, once TOTUS was turned on. He knows, too (you can see it) that she's done.
Wow! Even if it is close, will Obama and Pelosi and Reid listen??
Or will their arrogance take them over the cliff? Unbelievable!!!
Let call it the Massachusetts miracle! ...Jerry king
Never underestimate the American people for being dumb. They knew all about Obama and it didn't matter. They wanted CHANGE and they got it.
She will probally win.
Only time will tell, but everyone I know in my community and elsewhere i is voting for Scott Brown.....GO BROWN!!!!!
The "Times they are a changin!" It is the best thing that can happen to the United States. If this is true, then it is the beginning of the rejection of a European Marxist/Socialist idea of a "Workers Paradise."
This idea was dreamt up by Karl Marx, a 19 century pseudo-philosopher, It is fundamentally Anti-American. His ideas will never work in America. European Marxist/Socialists ideas are anti-thetical to American history and culture.
HOPEFULLY, this will be the beginning of the end for socialism in the U.S. but we have a LONG LONG way to go. It will probably take a generation or two to clean up the mess that liberals have given us. But this is a start!
Sincerely,
Ross M. Bagn
(Cheyenne, WY)
Vote Scott Brown!!!
Not true. nice "reporting" CNN.
Hahahahaha, all I can do is laugh at the fall of the Obama aganda. This administration is a joke and the American people are not laughing.
The President's advisors are correct – I hope!
The Democratic party has has taken a HUGE TURN to
the LEFT, & they've left main stream America behind.
Good luck, Mr. Brown!
Ed, Ed, Ed I dont know what you said, said, said, He will, he wont, he might its tight. What is the point of this piece or press release
I wonder.
Rep-apocalypse
Coakley should lose. Maybe some of the other high and mighty will see what is comming for them. Disgrace!
Obama's minions just don't get it; Coakley is NOT the reason for the expected loss-the Obama agenda is!
well that means Coaxley wins. Obama'a advisors have not been right about anything yet. Why start now.
I don't know how these people (repubs) can vote for a republican, who represents the party of "NO". This guy is going to do whatever he can to block this importAnt legislation. We let the republican lead us into this whole for 8 years. They (the repubs) hve ne'er put forth any real legislation to help us with more affordable health care. Please vote democrat!!!! We need to keep moving forward!
even when his ship is sinking,spin,spin,spin! this is the first of many dems to go down in congress! to all dems in congress: stay on board with your crazy captain(pelosi) and you will meet the same fate!
The far left still refuses to believe the country doesn't support them. We don't like your agenda. You will lose here and everywhere else but in California. Those morons keep sending Pelosi, Boxer, and the like back to Washington. Send all nuts to the utopia of Calfornia. Leave the rest of us alone
This presidency is effectively over.
Period...
Coakley's lost can be clearly laid at the foot of Obama.
Bad policy, tax and spend liberal will always cause an uproar.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.....................Residents of MA, vote IN Scott Brown!
We need your common sense people of Massachusetts!
The People are showing the left "the exit door". The left risks violent revolution if they cheat a continue to ignore The People.
This idiot in chief is a traitor.
So... the White House is sending the message out " Don't blame Obama for this lost cause." Sorry. The fact this isn't a runaway in the bluest state in the union is BECAUSE of Obama and his policies. Coakly is a marginally worse candidate than Kerry but the machine puts these people up anyway and expects Democrats to vote them in. Not this time. The people have spoken and every member of Congress who keeps voting with Obama,Pelosi and Reid is in danger of the same voter disgust in 10 short months. How appropriate the "Tea Party" sends a message to this overbearing, over reaching, arrogant,, tax obsessed goverment from the far reaches of the state right down to Boston Harbor!
Life long democrat...............voting for Brown.
Obama advisors are ignorant and irresponsible. They believed the Virginia Democratic nominee was going to lose and said so before election day.
They better start realizing that this is happening because of no leadership from the White House. This would not be happening with that lady in the White House.
The good people of Massachusetts stand at the ready to change American history on tuesday – to reject tyranny for a second time in our nation's history, and free themselves and their fellow countrymen and women from the yoke of oppressive, intrusive, and unrepresentative government.
Godspeed, Scott Brown!
Now this is hope and change that WE can belivei in!
Win or lose, Brown has thrown a scare into the Democratic machine in Mass. and it truly is the people's seat rather than Teddy's.
Obama is there trying to protect his Socialist agenda.
To all Brown supporters: Don't allow this article fool you. It's a classic DNC ploy to hopefully cause overconfidence! Make sure to cast your vote for Brown and the overall good of our Country!
awesome news
GO SCOTT BROWN
He thinks "she can do the job" which means she can be controlled by the Democrat machine.
i believe too she will and praying she will
Bad move, Mr. President. Coakley is a train wreck, and you've just jumped into the locomotive. So, since you support this criminal who allows molestation of 2-tear olds, we can add baby molestation to the list of things you support.
This will be a slap in the
face for all the years of hard work by senator kennady
It's so sad that the dems could not have found a more seasoned candidate. Coakley was her own worst enemy
Massachusetts!
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I hope Brown wins as Coakley is an elitist socialist/ liberal who does NOT care about the people. "It's not Kennedy's seat, it's not the Democrats seat, it the PEOPLE's seat" GO SCOTT BROWN!
Obama's tax and spend policy is crippling America and the corrupted special deals health care bill is not about health or care but about taking over a 6th of the US economy. It's about socialist big government control, adding more bureaucracy to health care doesn't give better care but government inefficiency and soaring costs for the "real" people of America-the tax payers!
We can only hope.
So America how do you like "spread the wealth???" Creepy isn't it? I can see Lenin or Marx saying "spread the wealth!" This election is Mass is a contest between the 'American Dream' and "Spread the Wealth."
At least he is now listening the people!!!
What does Bill Burton know? He is so light, he floats. Even Megyn Kelly from Fox News can clean his clock, which isn't hard to do. Another left over crony from the campaign trail.
This is just the beginning, like last years couple of elections that Republicans won... but now, a seat held by kennedy for more than 40 years, to be lost to a Republican, is a referendum on the president, pelosi, reid, all the czars, all the spending, healthcare bill debacle, cap and tax, soon illegal alien amnesty, and so much more. People do not want socialism or marxism.
And, if dems push the bill with the nuclear option of 51 votes, they will really guarantee landslide victories in November, in fact, if they do that, I would predict they lose the majority in both house and senate.
Personally, I would hope the voters would vote out all dems and republicans to send all politicians a message – that being, follow our constitution and bill of rights!
Yahoo, Brown is about to kick the Mass. political machine
in the behind !
I believe Coakley's defeat will be the result of a growing backlash against President Obama's apparent indifference toward the needs and desires of the middle class.
Be careful... Don't believe a word that is leaked out of this White House, especially anything leaked to CNN. I smell a rat (-of course, this particular smell has been permeating the atmosphere whenever statist radical Democrat politicians and their paid hack staffers are in the area). I am sure that this is being put out in a last-ditch attempt to suppress a surging conservative vote ("I don't need to vote, now that I've heard Obama thinks Brown will win. He already has it in the bag). CONSERVATIVES: Don't believe a word of it. Get out and vote. Get your parents to vote, your kids, your friends, whatever. If they are a Brown vote, get them to the polls!
Obama sounds very desperate to me. Why all not let the Republican in on the health care bill, what,s to hide.
This may be a trick!
It may be another case of, "you lie," or, "your cohorts lie!"
If Republicans believe that Brown's election is a "done deal" and sleep in Tuesday instead of voting, Coakley could squeak through and win.
Be careful up there in "Massachusettes," you Republicans and conservative Independents who learned to read, spell, AND think.
VOTE Tuesday!
Vote for Scott Brown!