Obama may speak at Northeastern University
By Matt Viser and Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff – January 16, 2010

President Barack Obama is considering Northeastern University as the venue for his visit to Massachusetts on Sunday to boost the US Senate candidacy of Martha Coakley, Coakley said this morning.

The Obama rally is tentatively slated for 3 p.m., Coakley said as she began a daylong, eight-stop tour of eastern Massachusetts at a union hall in Dorchester.

Coakley, the Democratic state attorney general, and Republican State Senator Scott Brown are in a last-minute scramble for votes today in a race that has caught fire in recent days, drawing national media attention as a possible game-changing moment in the health care debate in Washington — and in Obama’s presidency.

Coakley was joined at the morning by Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of the late Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal legend who held the seat for 47 years. The cheering crowd of 200 included union members in workboots, sweatshirts, and Carhart jackets.