I Thought You Were In Charge Of Plan B

Despite the headline at TPMDC tonight, it looks like the White House didn't get concerned on Martha Coakley losing up until, oh, January 9th or so.

President Obama's senior advisor David Axelrod said there "wasn't much discussion" about an alternative path to passing health care with just 59 Democrats in the Senate because there was "widespread assumption was that that seat was safe."

"The truth is the flares went up about 10 days before that election," Axelrod said during a briefing today with reporters and opinion-makers.

"There wasn't much discussion about the implications if the thing went the other way," he said.

Hmm.  January 9th was the day that PPP poll came out showing Brown up 48%-47%.  Only then did the White House go into gear.

I was still poo-pooing Brown back on January 5th, myself.   Brown didn't even show up on my radar until New Year's Day, as a matter of fact.

But the fact that it was only ten days before the election that Coakley and the White House got into gear shows there was a major problem.  Brown should have never been that close.  Coakley ran the worst campaign possible, pretending to be an incumbent in a year where incumbents are not doing too well on either side.

My problem is I had faith in these guys, and so did a lot of people.