martha coakley

I hate to nit-pick, but is it possible that Martha Coakley lost not because people knew her too little but because they just might have know her too much? I didn't follow the race super closely, and I certainly haven't studied the exit polls, but I have heard an awful lot about Coakley's failure to define herself. It's certainly possible that the entire debacle turned only on national politics, Democratic arrogance, Massachusetts sexism, and Tea Party backlash, but just on the off chance it swayed some of those 100,000 voters who made the difference, is Coakley's actual record worth a peek? -- Laura Flanders