"I know what its like to lose a race," she said in a video announcement on her website to launch her campaign for the 2014 election. "But do you know what? It is nothing compared to what so many people go through every day of their lives."
Coakley, 60, was elected Massachusetts Attorney General in 2006. Since then, she has advocated gay marriage rights and won multimillion-dollar settlements from banks for their handling of subprime loans and other lending.
