Martha Coakley...Meet Creigh "Dirty" Deeds & Everyone Else Under The Obama Bus

The "Big Mo" for Scott Brown is picking up more steam, and a poll released overnight shows him with a four point lead over Martha Coakley, the lib.

Gateway Pundit links to a Byron York story, saying that the bottom has fallen out of Coakley's poll numbers, and she's destined to lose. Democrats, reminiscent of setting up Creigh "Dirty" Deeds to blame for his loss as Governor of Virginia, are now prepping Coakley for her meeting with Deeds under the Obama bus.

Here in Massachusetts, as well as in Washington, a growing sense of gloom is setting in among Democrats about the fortunes of Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley. “I have heard that in the last two days the bottom has fallen out of her poll numbers,” says one well-connected Democratic strategist. In her own polling, Coakley is said to be around five points behind Republican Scott Brown. “If she’s not six or eight ahead going into the election, all the intensity is on the other side in terms of turnout,” the Democrat says. “So right now, she is destined to lose.”

Intensifying the gloom, the Democrat says, is the fact that the same polls showing Coakley falling behind also show President Obama with a healthy approval rating in the state. “With Obama at 60 percent in Massachusetts, this shouldn’t be happening, but it is,” the Democrat says.

Given those numbers, some Democrats, eager to distance Obama from any electoral failure, are beginning to compare Coakley to Creigh Deeds, the losing Democratic candidate in the Virginia governor’s race last year. Deeds ran such a lackluster campaign, Democrats say, that his defeat could be solely attributed to his own shortcomings, and should not be seen as a referendum on President Obama’s policies or those of the national Democratic party.

The same sort of thinking is emerging in Massachusetts. “This is a Creigh Deeds situation,” the Democrat says. “I don’t think it says that the Obama agenda is a problem. I think it says, 1) that she’s a terrible candidate, 2) that she ran a terrible campaign, 3) that the climate is difficult but she should have been able to overcome it, and 4) that Democrats beware — you better run good campaigns, or you’re going to lose.”

Coakley hasn't helped herself with her week of missteps. One of her staff, Michael Meehan, attacks a Weekly Standard reporter and she tries to act ignorant of it, but the photo taken there tells otherwise. She insulted fans a Fenway Park, wondering aloud why she should want to stand out in the cold at Fenway. Yesterday, she said (audio here) that Catholics shouldn't work in emergency rooms and today had to pull an attack ad against Brown, because it shows the fallen World Trade Center while alleging Brown aided Wall Street "greed."

People are also finding out about Coakley's role as Middlesex Co. prosecutor, in keeping a man imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.

This afternoon, word comes that Obama is going to ride his horse up to Massachusetts to try and prevent the loss of his filibuster proof majority. I'm sure they'll be digging Ted Kennedy's corpse out and wheeling it up there for the rally as well, but even the "Kennedy's seat" mantra is failing.