FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Attorney General Martha Coakley waves as Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., right, applauds at her primary election night victory event in Boston. Coakley is running to fill the seat vacated by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, but is crafting a campaign largely free of the Kennedy mystique.
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)