David Axelrod: ‘Hat’s off’ to Scott Brown in Massachusetts Senate race

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President Obama’s top political advisor, David Axelrod, said today that if the White House had been asked earlier, more could have been done for embattled Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.

Axelrod, in a question-and-answer session with reporters, said it was too soon for ‘post-mortems’ on the special election to fill the seat held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat. And for the record, he said that he still expected Coakley to win.

The Obama strategist volunteered praise for the campaign run by the Republican, Scott Brown. ‘As a practitioner in politics, my hat’s off to him,’ Axelrod said.

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-- Paul West