Brown v. Coakley: The latest

It was a big day in MA as Scott Brown held several rallies, one that was rather large and Martha Coakley rec’d a visit from our celebrity President. Daily Caller reporter Jon Ward tweeted an estimate of about 5,000 for the Obama/Coakley rally and 4,000 for Brown’s. Those aren’t official estimates, though, so take them with a grain of salt.

– Here’s video of the Coakley rally Obama spoke at.

– Republican lawyers are claiming that the current Senate seat holder, Paul Kirk, will not be able to cast a vote in the Senate after Tuesday’s election. Not sure if that’s true or not, but if it is, it’s no wonder the Dems are making veiled threats about prolonging the vote count process in MA (some are even joking about it).

– CNN’s Ed Henry reports that some Obama advisers have private expressed the belief that Coakley will lose. They may be on to something, as more polling is rolling in that suggests Brown has an edge going in to Tuesday’s special election.

– The Democrats have gone extremely negative, likely out of a sense of desperation. The MA Dem party sent out a mailer that read, ““1,736 WOMEN WERE RAPED IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 2008. SCOTT BROWN WANTS HOSPITALS TO TURN THEM ALL AWAY.” It’s a complete fabrication, of course, but then again, we expected this kind of smear campaign going into the final days of this race, didn’t we? The Brown campaign has filed a criminal complaint over the matter, citing a MA law that prohibits false statements from being made about a political candidate:

A section of the Massachusetts General Laws prohibits false statements against political candidates that are designed or tend “to aid or to injure or defeat such candidate,” with a penalty of to $1,000 fine and up to six months in prison.

Brown’s got grounds for a complaint, here, but that law, frankly creeps me out. Not because I believe false statements should be made about political candidates, but because of who would be in charge of determining whether or not something was “false.”

Anyway …

– Contrary to rumors swirling yesterday, Senator Joe Lieberman has no plans to endorse anyone in the MA Senate race.