Id have to agree with that - which is why I'm still wondering about the release of Coakley's trailing numbers, unless as is suspected, the point was to get Obama up here. In her case, I look at it as a Hail Mary pass.
Well everything else she's done looks like she's been hoarding campaign cash because she assumed wrongly in a bad economic climate and her being the key vote on a bill that is unpopular in all circles that she was going to walk away with this thing after the primary. In other times, that would be a safe assumption.
Leaking her internals also will give her a last minute appeal to democrats from neighboring states to come in and aid her. Corzine did the same thing back in October. She probably skimped on her GOTV director and needed the party bigs to come in. It doesn't really matter, she probably also did a poor job doing IDs before. She might get a lot of bodies to help her, but she might end up driving Brown supporters out to vote because a lot of democrats and left leaning independents are unhappy of the disaster HCR was and the lack of action on banking interest who are one of the causes of the economic situation.
Full disclosure, I'm a democrat that hates the HCR bill and scratches my head with the administrations decisions this past year. I really don't care who wins this race.