What does Obama do while Scott Brown holds a rally?”
President Barack Obama urged Massachusetts voters at a Boston rally today to cast their ballots for Democrat Martha Coakley, saying she would fight for working people while her opponent, Scott Brown, is marching in “lockstep” with Washington Republicans who want to return to the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney administration. “Where we don’t want to go now is backwards,” Obama’ s told a crowd of 1,500 Coakley supporters at a Northeastern University gymnasium. “We’ve got so much work left to do. … I can’t do it alone. I need leaders like Martha by my side so we can kick it into high gear, so we can finish what we’ve started.” Obama traveled to the city to lend a hand to Coakley, the state’s attorney general, because she is facing an unexpectedly tough challenge from Brown, a previously little-known state senator, in a race that could be crucial to the president’s success in pressing his agenda in Washington. The president’s appearance will be a key test of his ability to reenergize
