# Is Coakley going to blow it again?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coakley-going-to-blow-it-again/696925>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 30, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coakley-going-to-blow-it-again/696925 "2014-08-30T00:21:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coakley-going-to-blow-it-again/696925/61 "2014-11-05T16:15:32Z")

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Heh. Actually, being right is only awesome when most people got it wrong. Elvis was pretty wrong here, but the polls predicted this race pretty well and I have to admit that I would never predict a GOP win in Massachusetts if the polls didn’t back me up already.

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**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coakley-going-to-blow-it-again/696925/62 "2014-11-05T22:09:41Z")

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The polls said the election was going to be close, and so it was. I really think that this one came down to the personalities of the candidates, how they presented themselves, and the willingness of the voters to believe them.

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