Our Attorney General Martha Coakley is now claiming that she is the victim in the sidewalk cram down her campaign stooge gave a reporter. She told reporters today that "I know there were people following, including two from the Brown campaign who have been very aggressive in their stalking."

"Stalking?" So who are these "stalkers," anyway?

Are there citizens following her campaign around and recording her public statements? That's nothing new. Maybe there's a Brown campaign person taking photos or handing out fliers? It happens in nearly every campaign.

But "stalkers?" Stalking, as Attorney General Coakley knows, is a crime. So is assault, like shoving someone to the ground and repeatedly pushing them...

...Coakley is ending the campaign on a high note of condescension. William Jacobson highlights a classic quote from a Boston Globe feature on Coakley's campaign. In an election with such high stakes, with so little time left in the campaign, the Globe wondered if she was being too passive.

"As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?'' she fired back, in an obvious reference to a Brown video of him doing just that at the Winter Classic hockey game played at Fenway...

"As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?" she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that. "This is a special election. And I know that I have the support of Kim Driscoll. And I now know the members of the [Salem] School Committee, who know far more people than I could ever meet."

..."He should stay away and let Martha and I discuss the issues one on one," Brown said. "The machine is coming out of the woodwork to get her elected. They're bringing in outsiders, and we don't need them."...

...Brown has come to Zoll Corporation to talk about health care and taxes. Zoll is a profitable company, making a lifesaving product -- the defibrillators you see in offices, hospitals, and fire departments -- but company officials are worried about its future under the Democratic health care regime. That's because both Democratic bills, House and Senate, feature a new tax on the makers of medical devices, a tax that could kill, or seriously weaken, some of the industry's top manufacturers.

"The way it's written right now, Zoll's portion of the medical device tax that's in the health care legislation would be somewhere between five and ten million dollars," says Richard Packer, the company's chairman and CEO. "Our total profit last year was less than ten million dollars, so if this goes through, as we understand it, it will move Zoll toward being a break-even company." That, Packer says somewhat euphemistically, is "not a sustainable place."

Zoll isn't the only business facing a possible crisis. The medical device industry is huge in Massachusetts -- 225 companies employing about 50,000 people. That's a lot of jobs and a lot of lives that could fare badly under a new health care system. "It's going to hurt Massachusetts businesses at a time that we can't afford it," Brown says...

Here in Massachusetts, it turns out Bill Clinton will make not one but two appearances tomorrow on behalf of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley.

The Coakley campaign, struggling against surging Republican Scott Brown, has been touting Clinton's appearance for several days, but in the last 24 hours there have been questions about whether the former president would actually appear. Clinton is the United Nations special envoy for Haiti and has taken a high-profile role in rescue and relief efforts following the disastrous earthquake there. But he is also the man who could possibly help save Coakley, and thus the Democratic national health care plan, from defeat on Tuesday. So the confluence of events presented the spotlight-loving Clinton with a difficult choice: save health care, or save the world? He chose to head to Massachusetts.