As with Scott Brown first run, Baker's side is using ads [View all]

that try to give the impression that Democrats will be voting for Baker--and also that some Democratic votes for Baker are significant.

Worked for Brown. Hope it doesn't work for Baker. Brown at least found to endorse him several officials who at some point had been elected to office as Democrats.

The PAC ad showing Coakley floundering when asked about the gasoline tax, then missing the right answer by a lot does not cheer me up, either.

I don't much care about day to day stuff because the legislature can override as many gubernatorial vetoes as it wishes to override. But, there are court appointments and filling vacancies, which makes someone an incumbent and therefore harder to beat.

I wish Democrats had put forward someone other than Coakley. I think her heart is usually in the right place and obviously want her to win. But, she can't win unless she is a good candidate. She made an awful candidate against Brown. While I think she has learned a lot since, I am still uneasy. And Baker is ever so slick. Much like carpetbagger Romney, Baker will make a good candidate and, if he wins, a lousy governor.