Battle of the bads 2.0

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Coakley, though Sink could have won back in 2013 and should have run this year. Sorry the last poll was poorly executed.

[ElectionsGuy]

Sink blew it in a R+1 district and R+2 state, Coakley is blowing it in a D+10 state.

[IceSpear]

I honestly don't think Sink is a bad candidate. Her 2010 result was pretty strong, and it's not like she got blown out in the House election either (a non presidential year special election would've been tough for any Dem). Now, if Florida had a stronger bench, I'd still not want her to run for anything again. But since it's Florida, she might actually be one of our better candidates...

[Holmes]

I honestly don't think Sink is a bad candidate. Her 2010 result was pretty strong, and it's not like she got blown out in the House election either (a non presidential year special election would've been tough for any Dem). Now, if Florida had a stronger bench, I'd still not want her to run for anything again. But since it's Florida, she might actually be one of our better candidates...

You're sugar coating it. Both of Sink's loses were an embarrassment. She shouldn't run again, Democrats should just put a fresh face out there.

[IceSpear]

I honestly don't think Sink is a bad candidate. Her 2010 result was pretty strong, and it's not like she got blown out in the House election either (a non presidential year special election would've been tough for any Dem). Now, if Florida had a stronger bench, I'd still not want her to run for anything again. But since it's Florida, she might actually be one of our better candidates...

You're sugar coating it. Both of Sink's loses were an embarrassment. She shouldn't run again, Democrats should just put a fresh face out there.

How was 2010 an embarrassment? That year, Republicans were winning by double digits in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. Florida is redder than those three (especially in midterm years), and Sink lost by a point, and even held Scott under 50%.

Her 2014 loss was more of an embarrassment simply because she started with such a huge lead, but that was obviously never going to hold in an R+1 district in a low turnout election.

[Flake]

Sink's a really good candidate on paper, but a terrible campaigner. That's why she blew a double digit lead and lost to Scott in 2010. She shouldn't have visited every county in the state, she needed to focus on the major cities, and she needed to focus on hispanic voters. There's a reason she won Osceola by a measly 6%. She also didn't put much effort into her groundgame and like Mitt Romney, she's super awkward when talking to large audiences.

Of course that's nothing compared to how awful Coakley is.

[Frodo]

Martha Coakley -I still haven't forgiven her for losing Ted Kennedy's Senate seat just before the crucial vote on the Affordable Care Act, forcing Democrats to use reconciliation to get the thing through. 

[Bigby]

Wouldn't vote for either, but definitely Coakley. Barely losing in Florida, a swing state, isn't that bad. However, losing as a Democrat in Massachusetts is downright shameful.

[Miles]

Sink blew it in a R+1 district and R+2 state, Coakley is blowing it in a D+10 state.

[Bojack Horseman]

Coakley by far. I'm not sure if the 2010 Senate loss was entirely her fault or more of Obama Derangement Syndrome's effect on normally blue voters that we saw in November of 2010, but still: she lost in Massachusetts. You don't get any worse than that.

[free my dawg]

Coakley by far. I'm not sure if the 2010 Senate loss was entirely her fault or more of Obama Derangement Syndrome's effect on normally blue voters that we saw in November of 2010, but still: she lost in Massachusetts. You don't get any worse than that.

She not only didn't campaign, but she complained about having to do it.

This pathetic mess of a politician makes Hanabusa look humble in comparison. Never seen a bigger entitlement complex in politics than Martha Coakley.

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It's not hard to lose as a Democrat in Florida. Losing as a Democrat in Massachusetts takes special skills.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Coakley is objectively the worst.

Sink lost by only 62,00 votes (1.15 percentage points) statewide in a national Republican wave year in a swing state with a Republican-tint, and by 3,400 votes (1.8 percentage points) in a special election in a lean-Republican house district that previously elected a Republican with 57% of the vote.

Coakley lost by 108,000 votes and 5 percentage points statewide in a special Senate election before the aforementioned Republican wave took hold in a heavily Democratic state, and looks like she's going to blow the gubernatorial race in the same state by a big margin.

Sink puts up a good fight in adverse conditions and barely loses when the ground shifts beneath her, while Coakley throws every winnable race. You pretty much have to vote Coakley as the worst here.