Even if She Wins, She Wins

Apropos Martha Coakley’s now-infamous rapemailer, I’ve heard several pundits say, ‘after that, even if she wins, she loses.’

Precisely which planet do these people call home? Al Franken won by much dirtier tactics, and his Senate career seems off to a perfectly normal start. The difference between a campaign and what one does in office is like the difference between high school and college. If Coakley wins–and I still see that as the most likely, if no longer preordained, outcome–campaign strategists will almost certainly cite that mailer as the turning point.