Is Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick Getting Ready to Resign to Join an Obama Administration?

The Boston Herald reports:

Lt. Gov. Tim Murray has been on a fund-raising tear in the past two months, hauling in $175,000 as speculation swirls that Gov. Deval Patrick could flee the state early for a post in a Barack Obama White House.

Patrick has pledged to run for re-election, but Murray and other top Democrats who could succeed him - including Attorney General Martha Coakley and Treasurer Tim Cahill - have been building their war chests with an eye toward a potentially bruising and wide-open 2010 race.

Cahill leads the trio with more than $3 million in his coffers followed by Coakley with $600,000 and Murray with approximately a half million. But in April and May, Murray raised $175,000, tapping powerful public safety and labor unions, lawmakers, lobbyists and state workers. Coakley and Cahill each raised about $65,000 during the same period, records show.

Insiders say Murray’s windfall is partly the result of speculation that Patrick could land a Cabinet post in an Obama administration.

We must say Mr.Patrick might be getting a little confident.Barack Obama has no lock on the White House because Obama is going to defend against the coming attacks by the RNC and other groups.