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By Steve Kornacki 12/07/09 6:47pm

The Kennedy Seat and the Coakley Era

Tomorrow night, we'll learn the identity of Ted Kennedy's successor in the U.S. Senate. Or, actually, we'll learn the identity of his successor's successor.

Eager to provide the White House with a 60th vote for health care this fall, the overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts legislature voted to change the state's succession law just after Kennedy's death Read More

By Steve Kornacki 9/16/09 3:30pm

The Martha Coakley Story

Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general and candidate for U.S. Senate, has played this role before and lost. Twelve years ago, when she was a politically hungry assistant D.A. and her local state representative quit mid-term, Coakley jumped into the special election—the only woman running against four men. It seemed like good strategy.

But she Read More