...So for me it boils down to this: I was a Democratic consultant for long enough to want to believe that Coakley can still prevail, and there is still a remote chance that the polls in this race will be as misleading as they were in New Hampshire. However, my head is not my heart. Barring another polling meltdown, Scott Brown is the likely winner.

A Democratic operative familiar with Martha Coakley and the DSCC's massive get-out-the-vote operation says that outreach workers in and around Boston have been stunned by the number of Democrats and Obama supporters who are waving them off, saying they'll vote for Scott Brown.

They had John Kerry, their sitting US Senator, Jim McGovern their sitting US Congressman (and a supporter of terrorists), Tim Murray, our sitting Lt Governor and former mayor of Worcester, and the current mayor of Worcester, Joe O'Brien. They still ONLY turned out about maybe 150 people. Two hours later there were thousands showing up for Scott a couple blocks down the street. I thought this was pathetic and showed the weakness of their campaign.

Alas, Ben Smith didn't have room in his Tweet to give the full color of her remarks. I imagine they went something like this:

"Greeting Bostonians and other residents of this state which I know how to spell. Thank you for gathering here amidst this precipitation. I find your loyalty and enthusiasm very encouraging. Intelligent carbon-based life forms do not to expose themselves to this sort of climate. That is why my opponent spends so much time in sports activity parking areas while we congregate around public libraries. Ha ha ha. I laugh at his disregard for the germs of those who frequent such areas. I for one do not share that disregard so I am going to return to my automobile. Please remain here and display your very encouraging support for those issues I have endeavored to associate with my campaign."

Martha Coakley may have just had the shortest rally in political history. Her car swooped up to the curb here at the Boston public library and she jumped out to greet the throngs . . . of three union members holding signs. She spent about five minutes shaking hands in the rain before ducking away with her handlers. Coakley said her turnout has been "tremendous," and predicted a win. She praised President Obama and President Clinton for coming. After she praised Clinton, NRO asked her whether she was comfortable with Clinton, the U.N.'s special envoy to Haiti, stumping for her while that nation struggled to deal with last week's earthquake. "I think nobody tells President Clinton what he wants to do or can do," said Coakley. "I think he said very articulately how it was best for him to be on the ground here," and that "it didn't make sense for him to go there." What? She couldn't really mean that, right? I pressed: "It didn't make sense for him to go there?" Coakley's response: "You can ask him."