Polls won’t close in Massachusetts for several hours yet but top Democrats are already pointing the finger at one another for an electoral failure. It’s the latest sign that, even if Coakley does manage to pull this off, common wisdom says Scott Brown should never have gotten this close to winning. And yet, polls show him in the lead.

Exactly who started the finger-pointing isn’t clear, but both the Coakley campaign and the White House are currently engaged. And, as of a few minutes ago, so is the Democratic National Committee.

For brevity’s sake, let’s start with the Coakley campaign’s sniping.

The [Coakley] adviser, who cited internal polling numbers to make the case, emails that, “There’s more to the story than [Coakley's poor campaign]. If Martha is guilty of taking the race for granted, so is the White House, and the DNC.”

To which the White House responded:

A White House official emails: “It’s a little mind-boggling to see political consultants spin the election before the election is even over. There’s only one reason to do that.”

Enter the DNC:

The campaign failed to recognize this threat, failed to keep Coakley on the campaign trail, failed to create a negative narrative about Brown, failed to stay on the air in December while he was running a brilliant campaign. It’s wishful thinking from a pollster, candidate and campaign team that were caught napping and are going to allow one of the worst debacles in American political history to happen on their watch that they are at the 11th hour are going to blame others.

Before the DNC and DSCC got involved there was barely a single piece of paper on what the narrative is on Brown. The candidate in this race and the campaign have been involved in the worst case of political malpractice in memory and they aren’t going to be able to spin themselves out of this with a memo full of lies.

This leaves out Press Secretary Robert Gibbs saying at today’s press briefing that Obama isn’t pleased with her campaign. Oh, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel blaming her and the DSCC. And David Axelrod, Obama’s top political adviser, publicly expressing his disbelief with her campaign’s incompetence.

It’s going to be one hell of a night at Democratic HQ if Coakley manages to pull this off. Lots of awkward conversations.