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martha coakley was the first to announce her plans to pursue the seat earlier this month.l-known prosecutor has name recognition on her side but a significant funding problem to overcome. republican state senator scott brown is frontrunner on his side of the aisle and faces tough odds. registered democrats outnumber republicans three to one in massachusetts. this is certainly a tough race to the finish here. the primary is scheduled for december 8 and the special election january 19, so they have just a few short months to win the hearts and minds of massachusetts voters. bret. bret: molly line live in boston. thank you. while the political bombs are flying following the president's decision to abandon a european missile defense shield, a ground-based one, we will hear from our own bomb throwers, if yot if you haa hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible with a hoveround. tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor and founder of hoveround. when we say you're free to see the world, we mean it. call today and get a free hoveround information kit

and martha coakley is the only one that said she wants the seat. >> sure. it is massachusetts.ocrats run the state. hypocrisy is good up there. it was the people's republic of massachusetts, i expect them to make an appointment and then they'll have the election. >> do you see martha coakley or other candidates? >> i see other candidates. >> anybody rise to the top? >> there is a couple of members of congress that are being mentioned so i think you'll see it will be a bunch of democrats and maybe one republican. >> only two governor races going on. one of them if virginia, getting a lot of attention. bob mcdonnell was on the show yesterday. his graduate thesis getting attention. is this the kind of thing that hurts his campaign. what do you do to steer the attention away from that. >> i thinkthey were smart to do what they did. they did a teleconference call with the press and got it out, talked about it, they're moving on. i think creigh deeds will he to bring it back, bring it back. but the washington post will bring it up. is is their issue because they don't want to see mcd

special election is so short, many of them are going right ahead, certainly local attorney general martha coakleyhas already announced and she's in. because she really needs to raise the money for this race. but you're right. it's a very delicate political situation for many of the candidates. they've got to decide how quickly they want to get in and they've also got to decide whether they want to contend with potentially another candidate. >> okay. so coakley's in. u.s. congressman steven lynch, conservative, possibly in, too. then there's talk of joe kennedy. >> right. >> how serious might he be about this? >> well, it's really hard to know. pretty much he's talked to lots of former colleagues and friends throughout this entire week. it's sort of been joe kennedy watch for all the local newspapers. and as he calls them and figures out what exactly he wants to do. he's obviously got a lot going for him. he's got the name. he's got a good amount of money. but when he left congress about ten years ago, he sort of seemed like he didn't want to come back. so he's got to deal with that and answer som

so right now at this point, officially martha coakley, the massachusetts attorney general, is the only has officially declared that she will be running for that seat. also possibly potential democratic candidates, steven lynch. we are told that he has obtained the nomination papers, but still 56-year-old coakley is the first one to officially declare. >>> apparently not everyone is willing to turn the other cheek. there was a protest yesterday outside the church of an arizona pastor who said that he wants president obama to die. melissa gonzalez was there. ♪ >> reporter: people lined southern avenue sunday morning spreading their message of love. >> because i, too, am a minister. i would never get in the pulpit and preach hate. >> reporter: this is video of one of pastor anderson's video posted on youtube. i hate barack obama. and i'm going to prove it from the bible why god hates barack obama. >> i'm apalled that anyone would talk about killing the president and as a religious leader, i'm apalled that anyone would do it from a pulpit. >> there's more of us who believe god is peace and

>> i think it will be martha coakley, the attorney general up there.paign. the others are way behind her. >> the biggest thing is women in massachusetts politics have sometimes looked strong on paper but not done well. >> and speaking of women in politics or not, former alaska governor sarah palin is deflecting questions about whether she may run for higher office in the future. her comments came earlier this morning following her speech to business leaders at an investors forum in hong kong. >> you know, i wish i could predict the future. cannot. so can't answer that question right now. but look forward to more opportunities to send good messages from the u.s. and hopefully help meet some of the challenges that we're all facing today. >> chuck todd, mark halperin predicted last hour she wouldn't run in 2012. what do you think? >> i completely agree except with this caveat. sometime in october, there will be a draft movement in new hampshire, october 2011. she'll flirt with it. she'll show up. >> drink the kool-aid. >> she'll do it just enough to make