Somehow, this doesn’t shock me: “A Democratic operative familiar with Martha Coakley and the DSCC’s massive get-out-the-vote operation says that outreach workers in and around Boston have been stunned by the number of Democrats and Obama supporters who are waving them off, saying they’ll vote for Scott Brown.”

I may have been too cautious in my prediction below.

I noted in today’s piece on the homepage that the classic Boston/Massachusetts politicians always had great charisma, sense of humor, and retail politics skills — the Kennedys, Tip O’Neill, Joe Moakley. Even if you didn’t agree with their positions, they seemed like good guys to have a beer with and always seemed eager to engage with every voter they encountered. In this race, Scott Brown has that quality by the bucketful, and Martha Coakley simply doesn’t. And among a decent number of Democrats, that counts for a lot.

UPDATE: Apparently the Brown campaign is encountering similar phenomenon of plenty of “Democrats For Brown” as they canvass.