Meet the Pips
Boston public radio station WBUR invited Democratic political analyst Dan Payne and Republican analyst Todd Domke to handicap the foreshortened campaign for U.S. Senate. Payne says Attorney General Martha Coakley is in the limelight.
“This race looks like the white version of Gladys Knight and the Pips,” Payne said. “She’s the woman in front that you pay attention to and then there are three guys in the background who are — at this point anyway — pretty much similar but not standing out…”
“I don’t think [Coakley] needs to say ‘Vote for me because I’m a woman’,” Payne said. “I think there’s a demand among female voters for a female candidate.”
Both analysts agreed that Alan Khazei and Stephen Pagliuca — even with his vast wealth — would have trouble introducing themselves to voters in just four months.
“He should cut out the middleman with all this TV advertising, send the checks, let’s redistribute the wealth, and I think the voters would respond to that. I think they’d prefer attempted bribery to attempted brainwashing,” Domke joked.
[...] on the analogy he introduced in his Sept. 29 op-ed, political analyst Dan Payne returns with an extended introduction the four Democratic Senate [...]