Marathon Pundit: Washington Generals about to win in Massachusetts?

The only time I saw the Harlem Globetrotters in person they didn't play the Washington Generals, but the Boston Shamrocks. It was the same deal--the opposition would serve as hapless foils to the Globetrotters.

From Boston we move on to all of Massachusetts. Because the Generals/Shamrocks/Republicans could achieve the unthinkable--beat the Globetrotters/Democrats in next week's US Senate race.

Yes, I'm aware that Massachusetts has a history of electing Republican governors--the rationale is simple--voters want to have a Republican to protect them from the excesses of a Democratic-controlled legislature. (With the exception of their own person in the statehouse, of course.)

Here's what Daniel Foster writes in the National Review Online:

Democrats have flipped the panic switch in Massachusetts, setting off an eleventh-hour effort to lock up what they have repeatedly called "Ted Kennedy's seat" in the Senate.

In latest sign of just how worried Democrats are, a leaked memo written by Coakley’s finance chairman and sent to top donors on Tuesday warned of a "very tight" race and made an "urgent" appeal for supporters to "max out" donations at $2,400 each. This after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee injected nearly $600,000 into the race and as the DNC is poised to spend an additional $500,000.

The memo concedes that national conservative groups have effectively mobilized for Brown, and acknowledges that the Coakley campaign is "having trouble moving independents."

Money spent of Brown's behalf by such groups as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Club for Growth "seems to be working," the memo says, adding that "Polling shows that Republican voters are more energized than Democrats."