An e-mail:

Dear K-Lo:
Sports may not seem that important, but Martha Coakley’s ignorance of Curt Schilling transcends mere sports. Part of the reason she’s in trouble – perhaps the biggest part – is that she has behaved as though the election were a formality, and given a distinct impression of detachment from the hoi-polloi. When your opponent mentions at every stop that he drives a truck, and you openly have ridiculed him for standing outside Fenway park in the cold shaking hands, not knowing who Curt Schilling is smacks of “let them eat cake.”