Monday, January 25, 2010

Missing the mark in Massachusetts By Howard Kurtz

Missing the mark in Massachusetts

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 25, 2010; 8:40 AM

If Martha Coakley's defeat in Massachusetts was a political earthquake, most journalists were slow to hear the tremors.

Her chances of beating an obscure Republican in the race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat seemed so overwhelming that national news organizations largely ignored the contest until the stretch run. The mainstream media were lulled into complacency by Coakley's big lead in the polls and Massachusetts's reputation as the bluest of blue states.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012500741.html

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