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Scott Brown's Win in Massachusetts: HuffPost Bloggers React

Huffington Post   First Posted: 03/22/10 06:12 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 04:15 PM ET

Massachusetts' special election to fill the seat of the late Ted Kennedy Tuesday resulted in a debilitating loss for the Democratic Party and a historical upset in favor of the Republicans. Though traditionally known as one of the bluest of blue states, GOP State Senator Scott Brown took home 52 percent of the votes to Martha Coakley's 47 percent. Now, in the aftermath, the commentary is rolling in. Scroll down to see a round-up of HuffPost bloggers' reactions, predictions, I-told-you-so's, and more. And feel free to leave your own comments below.

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Massachusetts' special election to fill the seat of the late Ted Kennedy Tuesday resulted in a debilitating loss for the Democratic Party and a historical upset in favor of the Republicans. Though tr...
Massachusetts' special election to fill the seat of the late Ted Kennedy Tuesday resulted in a debilitating loss for the Democratic Party and a historical upset in favor of the Republicans. Though tr...
Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington: How Massachusetts Can Turn Out to Be a Blessing for Democrats Mark Penn Mark Penn: Strategy Corner: Stopping the Republican Comeback (Deja Vu All Over Again) Bob Cesca Bob Cesca: The Democrats Need to Find Some Spine and Pass This Bill Bill Lichtenstein Bill Lichtenstein: Anatomy of the Election Day Train Wreck: The View From Boston Richard (RJ) Eskow Richard (RJ) Eskow: Will the 'Don't-Blame-Me' Dems Take Responsibility and Fix Health Reform? Jane Hamsher Jane Hamsher: Dear President Obama: Time to Stop Letting Corporations Write the Health Care Bill Jeffrey Feldman Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats Robert Creamer Robert Creamer: Lessons From the Massachusetts Defeat Dylan Loewe Dylan Loewe: Saving Health Care After Coakley Cenk Uygur Cenk Uygur: Should Tim Kaine Be Fired? Aaron Zelinsky Aaron Zelinsky: Tuesday's Five Lessons for the Democrats Joseph A. Palermo Joseph A. Palermo: Massachusetts Shows the Timidity of Hope Won't Cut It Lynn Forester de Rothschild Lynn Forester de Rothschild: Massachusetts Voters' Message to Obama and Congressional Democrats Mark Greenbaum Mark Greenbaum: Coakley Loses. Here's What It Means for the Big Picture Mitchell Bard Mitchell Bard: Democracy Worked in Massachusetts, Now We Have to Live With the Consequences John Zogby John Zogby: Massachusetts: When a Hunch Is Not a Poll Jennifer Donahue Jennifer Donahue: Bungled Health Care Process Gets Blamed on Scapegoat Coakley Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Why Brown Is Not the Pro-Life Candidate In Massachusetts Senate Race Ben Wyskida Ben Wyskida: How to Lose the Congress in 2010 Steve Clemons Steve Clemons: Senate Race in Massachusetts: Obama's Health Care Effort Looks a Lot Like Afghanistan Mess Lawrence O'Donnell Lawrence O'Donnell: Will Scott Brown Ruin Republicans' (Secret) Plan to Pass Obamacare? Robert S. McElvaine Robert S. McElvaine: How Barack Can Get His Groove Back Stephen H. Dinan Stephen H. Dinan: Get Out of Bed With the Bankers, Mr. President Steve Benen Steve Benen: How the Parties Handle Setbacks Frances Beinecke Frances Beinecke: Brown Victory Doesn't Change the Powerful Support for Clean Energy and Climate Action Andy Ostroy Andy Ostroy: Sen. Phil A. Buster Goes to Washington! Michael L. Millenson Michael L. Millenson: Obama & Co. Forget 'Where's Mine?' and the Chicago Way Tony Blankley Tony Blankley: Obama's Highest Priority: Regaining Confidence Lanny Davis Lanny Davis: The Loss in Massachusetts: Lessons for Democrats to Learn Charles Feldman Charles Feldman: Is Massachusetts the New California? Shan Wells Shan Wells: Cartoon: The Left Jab Mike Lux Mike Lux: A Question of Character Wayne Trujillo Wayne Trujillo: Ironies, Unrest and Upsets: Politics and the Power of the People Jennifer Donahue Jennifer Donahue: President Obama Needs to Leader Up Frank Schaeffer Frank Schaeffer: Lefty Obama-Haters Lost Massachusetts Senate Race Michael Russnow Michael Russnow: Re Brown's Victory, Message to Obama: Making Nice Doesn't Work, Time to Play Hardball! Robert Scheer Robert Scheer: What Massachusetts Got Right Miles Mogulescu Miles Mogulescu: Time for a Reset: Obama and Dems Must Take on Wall Street and Create Jobs or Lose Kevin Grandia Kevin Grandia: Scott Brown's Win Will Put the Chill on Climate Legislation Nicholas Brown Nicholas Brown: Health Care: What We Do Now Rosalyn Hoffman Rosalyn Hoffman: Martha and Scott: A Gender Blender in the New Internet Order John Odum John Odum: Coakley or No Coakley, Health "Reform" Won't Die Taylor Marsh Taylor Marsh: What If Coakley Had Followed Our Lead? Bill Scher Bill Scher: On the Ground in Massachusetts: An Election About Everything, A Campaign About Nothing. James Boyce James Boyce: Today in Massachusetts Colin Delany Colin Delany: Scott Brown's Massachusetts Insurgency Shows How Online Organizing Has Shifted the Political Calculus Robert Weissman Robert Weissman: Massachusetts and the Populist Imperative Kenneth N. Davis Kenneth N. Davis: Message From Massachsetts -- What the Voters Want Jodie Evans Jodie Evans: Losing Hope, Taking Action Karen Dolan Karen Dolan: Scott Brown's Body Seduces. Take A Cold Shower Casey Sherman Casey Sherman: Martha Coakley: Democrat Doomed from the Start Mike Smith Mike Smith: Kennedy May Have Called Coakley Outcome Heather Taylor-Miesle Heather Taylor-Miesle: Brown's Win and the Climate Vote
Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington: How Massachusetts Can Turn Out to Be a Blessing for Democrats

If the White House learns the right lessons from the stunning loss in Massachusetts, it will turn out to be a blessing. A blessing in a very heavy disguise, yes, but a blessing nonetheless.
Mark Penn

Mark Penn: Strategy Corner: Stopping the Republican Comeback (Deja Vu All Over Again)

President Clinton's wakeup call came with the 1994 mid-term elections -- Obama's came a year earlier with yesterday's election in Massachusetts. Now Obama must make the kind of changes that Clinton did.
Bob Cesca

Bob Cesca: The Democrats Need to Find Some Spine and Pass This Bill

The Republicans, in the days immediately after being "thumped" in the 1998 midterms, didn't freak out and reevaluate their agenda. They impeached the president. The Democrats must find their spines.
Bill Lichtenstein

Bill Lichtenstein: Anatomy of the Election Day Train Wreck: The View From Boston

The causes of yesterday's train wreck, which promises to derail the Obama administration's initiatives, are many. Above all, it was Coakley's lack of understanding about running a campaign.
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Will the 'Don't-Blame-Me' Dems Take Responsibility and Fix Health Reform?

Aren't people who have participated in a failure supposed to look at their part in the problem, then step up and take responsibility for it? Watching the Democrats, those thoughts feel like relics from an archaic age.
Jane Hamsher

Jane Hamsher: Dear President Obama: Time to Stop Letting Corporations Write the Health Care Bill

The only real question this morning is, how more Democrats will lose their seats before they decide to stand up to the corporations?
Jeffrey Feldman

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats

The story of candidate Obama's failures in presidential primary states like Pennsylvania and Massachusetts was remarkably similar to the story coming out of last night's loss in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Robert Creamer

Robert Creamer: Lessons From the Massachusetts Defeat

The Massachusetts Senate race is a watershed event that has enormous implications for this political year. The media is making it a referendum on Obama and health care reform. But that interpretation is just flat wrong.
Dylan Loewe

Dylan Loewe: Saving Health Care After Coakley

There is no sympathy to be had for Coakley. She should be deeply, deeply ashamed. But there is an option that could result in a health care bill that's better than it would have been had Coakley not lost Ted Kennedy's seat for the Democrats.
Cenk Uygur

Cenk Uygur: Should Tim Kaine Be Fired?

You could have dismissed Virginia as leaning conservative and New Jersey as unique in their anger at Corzine. But there is no excuse for Massachusetts, and three is an undeniable trend. Is it fair to blame that problem on Kaine?
Aaron Zelinsky

Aaron Zelinsky: Tuesday's Five Lessons for the Democrats

On Tuesday, the Bay State shook Capitol Hill to its core. Here are the five lessons Democrats should learn from this special election.
Joseph A. Palermo

Joseph A. Palermo: Massachusetts Shows the Timidity of Hope Won't Cut It

The Obama Administration has cut far too many deals with the same corporate special interests that have dominated Washington since the Reagan years.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Lynn Forester de Rothschild: Massachusetts Voters' Message to Obama and Congressional Democrats

Voters in Massachusetts this week stood up and said 'enough is enough.' It's high time Obama and the Democrats in Congress got the message. So far all we're seeing is a circular firing squad.
Mark Greenbaum

Mark Greenbaum: Coakley Loses. Here's What It Means for the Big Picture

With Coakley's defeat, numerous Democrats will head for the retirement exits, telling themselves that if Democrats cannot hold Ted Kennedy's seat, there is little point in staying for and enduring an electoral bloodbath in November.
Mitchell Bard

Mitchell Bard: Democracy Worked in Massachusetts, Now We Have to Live With the Consequences

We will watch as the Republicans in the Senate do exactly what they've been doing since the day Obama was sworn into office. They will obstruct. They will say no. Again and again, democracy proves that it is a system that gives voters exactly what they ask for.
John Zogby

John Zogby: Massachusetts: When a Hunch Is Not a Poll

I think that the Democrats have a better get-out-the-vote operation. There are lots of variables but, yesterday, I thought Coakley "might win" by less than a point. That, my friends, is a hunch.
Jennifer Donahue

Jennifer Donahue: Bungled Health Care Process Gets Blamed on Scapegoat Coakley

he balance of health care reform passage would not hang on Martha Coakley unless Washington had made it so. What will it take to put something up for a vote?
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Why Brown Is Not the Pro-Life Candidate In Massachusetts Senate Race

How is the defeat of health care a pro-life position? A recent study from Harvard Medical School claims 40,000 Americans die on average every year as a consequence of having no health insurance.
Ben Wyskida

Ben Wyskida: How to Lose the Congress in 2010

A campaign with a bad message doesn't stand a chance, and the Democrats' plan to run on a platform of "don't rewind the clock to the Bush era" in 2010 is lackluster and uninspiring.
Steve Clemons

Steve Clemons: Senate Race in Massachusetts: Obama's Health Care Effort Looks a Lot Like Afghanistan Mess

The health care battle is beginning to look a lot like Afghanistan -- a pit into which America pours a never ending stream of rationalizations, compromises, resources and effort.
Lawrence O'Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell: Will Scott Brown Ruin Republicans' (Secret) Plan to Pass Obamacare?

Repealing Obamacare is going to be the centerpiece of Republicans' campaign to take back the House and Senate. But how can they repeal it if they don't pass it? Hence, Mitch McConnell's enabling of reform efforts.
Robert S. McElvaine

Robert S. McElvaine: How Barack Can Get His Groove Back

All President Obama needs to do to rally a substantial majority of the American people to his side is to make it clear that he is on their side and against their real enemies.
Stephen H. Dinan

Stephen H. Dinan: Get Out of Bed With the Bankers, Mr. President

When you have shown that you can stare down Wall Street and clean up the corruption and piracy, the American people will again rally by your side.
Steve Benen

Steve Benen: How the Parties Handle Setbacks

The difference in the way the two parties handle setbacks is hard to miss. Nothing conveys weakness like running for the hills at the first sign of trouble.
Frances Beinecke

Frances Beinecke: Brown Victory Doesn't Change the Powerful Support for Clean Energy and Climate Action

Senator Brown's victory has shuffled the deck on some issues, but it won't derail the bipartisan push for clean energy and climate legislation that will make our economy stronger and our country more secure.
Andy Ostroy

Andy Ostroy: Sen. Phil A. Buster Goes to Washington!

His real name may be Scott Brown, the right-wing truck-drivin' former Cosmo centerfold and Massachusetts state senator. But from now on, his name might as well be Phil A. Buster.
Michael L. Millenson

Michael L. Millenson: Obama & Co. Forget 'Where's Mine?' and the Chicago Way

Obama and the Democrats can either love their enemies like, say, one-term president Jimmy Carter, or they can practice the Chicago Way.
Tony Blankley

Tony Blankley: Obama's Highest Priority: Regaining Confidence

Although losing the 60th vote in the Senate is a critical loss to President Obama, the even greater danger to the president caused by yesterday's election is the reduced confidence in his political leadership.
Lanny Davis

Lanny Davis: The Loss in Massachusetts: Lessons for Democrats to Learn

We liberals need to reclaim the Democratic Party as a party that is willing to meet halfway with conservatives and Republicans even if that means only step-by-step reforms on health care.
Charles Feldman

Charles Feldman: Is Massachusetts the New California?

So what happens now in California? I think it would be foolish for just about any Democratic politician in this state to be too smug about their political future.
Shan Wells

Shan Wells: Cartoon: The Left Jab

Welcome to to the traffic jam. And thanks, Massachusetts. We owe you one.
Mike Lux

Mike Lux: A Question of Character

Democrats face the ultimate test of character: do we have the courage to head into the wind of the pontificating pundits and the culture-of-caution Democrats, and deliver the real change American voters are asking for?
Wayne Trujillo

Wayne Trujillo: Ironies, Unrest and Upsets: Politics and the Power of the People

Brown's victory over Martha Coakley is stupendous. And all the other adjectives that are flashing across Internet headlines -- epic, stunning, shocking, upset of a lifetime.
Jennifer Donahue

Jennifer Donahue: President Obama Needs to Leader Up

Do what Bill Clinton did after the 1994 health care rebuff: re-group and move to the center. It would show that the White House is not tone deaf. It would allow your party live to fight another day.
Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer: Lefty Obama-Haters Lost Massachusetts Senate Race

Congratulations to the left of the progressive movement and the Democratic Party: You just shot us all in the foot. You contributed to the Democratic loss in Massachusetts.
Michael Russnow

Michael Russnow: Re Brown's Victory, Message to Obama: Making Nice Doesn't Work, Time to Play Hardball!

We have a president who understands the politics of campaigning but not the politics of governing.
Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer: What Massachusetts Got Right

Obama's opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our health care concerns and our larger economic problems is leading to a lose-lose outcome for the president and the country.
Miles Mogulescu

Miles Mogulescu: Time for a Reset: Obama and Dems Must Take on Wall Street and Create Jobs or Lose

Barack Obama won on a promise to change the cozy insider game between Washington and big business but instead has done little to challenge the power of America's corporate oligarchy.
Kevin Grandia

Kevin Grandia: Scott Brown's Win Will Put the Chill on Climate Legislation

While the ramifications for the health care package have rightly been the talk of the town, there are other parts of Obama's plan that will also suffer due to Scott Brown's win. One of the biggies is the American Clean Energy And Security Act.
Nicholas Brown

Nicholas Brown: Health Care: What We Do Now

The Senate already passed a health care plan though. We need to vocally and wholeheartedly support that bill without any changes.
Rosalyn Hoffman

Rosalyn Hoffman: Martha and Scott: A Gender Blender in the New Internet Order

The huge growth of social networking is fueled by a desire to connect. But Coakley missed the point online and in person -- she failed to realize that voters want to reach out and touch someone.
John Odum

John Odum: Coakley or No Coakley, Health "Reform" Won't Die

Even if Coakley loses, I think the Senate's version of reform is still alive and kicking. That's because one or two Republicans will peel lose and vote for cloture after all.
Taylor Marsh

Taylor Marsh: What If Coakley Had Followed Our Lead?

If she'd run on her own terms, sticking to her own beliefs, ignoring the ploys of the aggrieved Vicki Kennedy and the Democratic leadership, at least she'd have done it her way.
Bill Scher

Bill Scher: On the Ground in Massachusetts: An Election About Everything, A Campaign About Nothing.

While everyone will say the election results mean this or that, the one aspect of the campaign that everyone will miss is: there has barely been a campaign.
James Boyce

James Boyce: Today in Massachusetts

The activist part of the Massachusetts Democratic Party are really disgusted with what they see as the failure of the Democrats in Washington to do anything.

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dhhh
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10:21 AM on 02/17/2010
Coakley i now hope is politically dead. She was arrogant and stupid. What made this foolish woman think she could win without throwing her entire self into this CAMPAIGN.
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zetacplus
Conservatism has failed America
533 Fans
03:01 AM on 01/24/2010
President Obama royally screwed up by allowing health care reform to just meander through Congress. The party of NO blocked every piece of legislation while they were screaming that they were being ignored by the democrats. The democrats, with a shaky 60 vote majority (because of the traitor Lieberman) were unable to pass the legislation they wanted to. Instead of punishing the repugs, the people punish the president and democrats. President Obama is stuck between a rock and a hard place but he needs to use his presidential pulpit to rally popular opinion so the people will understand what's going on.
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bluuskygirl
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02:48 PM on 01/21/2010
Does anyone remember Shannon O'Brien, the democratic guberantorial candidate who ran against Mitt Romney? I worked on her campaign and during canvassing, phonebanking, research and just talking to friends, discovered that Massachusetts is sexist. In a mostly democratic state, when a female gubernatorial candidate loses by a small margin, you have to ask why? The answer is Jane Swift (2001) --the lieutenant governor who became governor when then governor Paul Cellucci resigned to become Ambassador to Canada. (Jane Swift also had twins while in office). Whenever, I asked someone why they wouldn't vote for Shannon O'Brien, the answer was Jane Swift, we had a woman and look how that turned out, and Jane Swift was a Republican. The constituency saw her as "bad", the woman (not the politician) who screwed up the state. Right after that, Shannon O'Brien had the unfortunate circumstance to run and Mitt Romney was the male challenger. Now, you've got another republican "pretty boy" getting elected. I think it's time for Massachusetts to do some serious soul-searching.
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dakotawoman
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill. . .old time Progressive
209 Fans
11:25 AM on 01/21/2010
Can someone PLEASE explain to me?

A majority of Americans (according to the polls) WANTED a public option health care reform bill.

The party proposing this reform occupies the presidency AND has a majority in both houses of Congress.

WHAT the F***?!!!!!!

The Republican MINORITY and Big Business are clearly the real power brokers here. And have apparently ALWAYS been. The concept of America as a representative democratic republic is a farce.

Why try to change anything, when the best, most hopeful and altruistic of efforts smash like insects on the windshield of a juggernaut called "corporate special interest married to theocratic fundamentalist oppressors determined to strangle every individual's personal choices in the name of a desert nomad god'.

We are f*****.

A whole country held hostage by reactionary Neanderthals determined to keep us mired in their fantasy vision of an America that never existed in the first place.

More years of deadlock.

More generations owned and kept chained up to minimum wage lives without benefits as wage slaves to the corporations that very obviously and clearly are the REAL government.

I'm done.

Been fun talking with you all.

Goodbye.

I'm going home now to bunker down and entrench for the coming American Dark Ages.
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Bernique
Solar is clean, cheap and plentiful
599 Fans
08:41 AM on 01/21/2010
Scott Brown won because of non-transparent voting "machines" "counting".

Research done by Bev Harris of Black Box Voting

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

"According to preliminary media results by municipality, Democrat Martha
Coakley won Massachusetts overall in its hand counted locations,* with 51.12% of the
vote (32,247 hand counted votes) to Brown's 30,136, which garnered him 47.77% of
hand counted votes. Margin: 3.35% lead for Coakley.

Massachusetts has 71 hand count locations, 91 ES&S locations, and 187 Diebold
locations, with two I call the mystery municipalities (Northbridge and Milton)
apparently using optical scanners, not sure what kind"
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Doofus
25 Fans
07:09 AM on 01/21/2010
There were a lot of us who voted for Martha Coakley 'anyway', just not enough.
Scott Brown was a very appealing candidate, a man's man. Martha wasn't.
The Kennedy hold on Massachusetts politcs has come to an end.

Also, the Palin hold on US politics is now over. There's a new kid on the block.
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CindyInIndy
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.
599 Fans
09:52 PM on 01/20/2010
If you add a p,e,n,i,s to Sarah Palin, you'll have Scott Brown.
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BeefyT
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08:33 PM on 01/20/2010
Just think, Brown only needs to serve 123 days in the US senate, then he'll be fully qualified to be President!!
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ratmonkey1
84 Fans
07:55 PM on 01/20/2010
Obama never had a majority.
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ratmonkey1
84 Fans
08:12 PM on 01/20/2010
Unless you count Joe Lieberman.
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1murillo
Can't be neutral on a moving train - Zinn
545 Fans
03:33 AM on 01/24/2010
If you mean 60 votes then you'd also consider Sanders (I) as a non-Democrat. Nelson, Baucus Lincoln, Landrieu, all Democrats are part of the more conservative side of the senate Democrats.
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yikes57
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07:35 PM on 01/20/2010
A good outline on how the President can get back in the game:

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34956715/ns/politics-white_house/
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KingLeopold
83 Fans
07:25 PM on 01/20/2010
The chickens have come home to roost America!
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Passenger57
Keeping Calm And Carrying On...
1689 Fans
07:20 PM on 01/20/2010
After eight years of suffering under the Republicans, all of a sudden Democrats are impatient with one of their own in charge,see how the Republicans are fighting him every step of the way - so they vote in a Republican with the same anti-whatever-Obama-does agenda...which also erases the filibuster-proof majority the Dems had.
Yup. Makes perfect sense...things will start getting done in DC now, by gum!
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DavidShort
44 Fans
07:48 PM on 01/20/2010
Hopefully, we will have enough gridlock that nothing gets done. Much less damage that way.
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BMcCue7
I'm Buddy McCue (and you're not.)
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07:25 AM on 01/21/2010
That WOULD protect the status quo, alright.

Some of us don't think that's such a great idea.
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kart125
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10:08 PM on 01/20/2010
Uh, no. Independents are frustrated at having liberal ideology rammed down their throats. Independents voted Republicans out in 2006 and 2008 in repudiation for their ideological idiocy (not as endorsement of Democratic ideological idiocy), And now Independents are reminding Democrats that they are not anti- or pro- Republican or Democrat but anti-ideological idiocy on either side.
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BMcCue7
I'm Buddy McCue (and you're not.)
1723 Fans
 
07:26 AM on 01/21/2010
Incremental change isn't the same thing as having "ideology rammed down their throats."
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Katwoman1259
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07:06 PM on 01/20/2010
As a person who actually lives in Massachusetts I must comment. To be honest, I did not vote for Scott Brown, but I saw the direction of this election changing about a week or so ago. Alot of this is a vote against Martha Coakley and her lackluster campaign and against the stranglehold that democrats have on the Massachusetts senate. Nothing gets done here because of cronyism and it is very frustrating. Martha Coakley came off as entitled and as one of the insiders on Beacon Hill. Also, Massachusetts can be very conservative and very bigoted. There is a lot of NIMBYism from alot of comservative catholics and ethnocentric groups here in the Bay state. There was alot of talk about Scott Brown being a "red blooded American",etc. He is a non-challenging entity that conservatives in this state can live with. He doesn't make them uncomfortable or challenge the things they think make people "American". He has to run again in 2 years so we'll see what happens then. Frankly I'm surprised that people are convinced he has so much power. He is a junior Senator with a relatively short time to learn. Let's face it, he probably just wants to hold onto this job.
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KingLeopold
83 Fans
07:30 PM on 01/20/2010
Wow... The state that carried Obama by 26 points is now suddenly racist? Get a clue. Did you ever think that people vote based on policies? Ignorant.
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Doofus
25 Fans
06:53 PM on 01/20/2010
Of passing interest, the polls which predicted an upset (and
were quite upsetting at the same time) were actually pretty accurate.

More than a little disturbing, Rasmussen seems to take pride &
credit for motivating Republicans to finish off Martha Coakley.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/massachusetts/brown_wins_stunning_victory_in_massachusetts
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Passenger57
Keeping Calm And Carrying On...
1689 Fans
08:13 PM on 01/20/2010
I'm only concerned about the exit poll...or lack thereof...
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isadora
Leftie, educator, labor activist, Unitarian Univer
384 Fans
06:17 PM on 01/20/2010
Let us recall "Mitt' Romney's senatorial campaign against Ted Kennedy as recounted in the book "True Compass." "Mitt" portrayed himself as pro-choice, though he's always been a Mormon pledged to that group's absolute 'pro life" position. He also stated progressive views on gay issues again in direct opposition to his church's hard line that violence is the answer against gays and lesbians.. The MAN WHO WAS MIRACULOUSLY ELECTED last night drove around in a pickup truck and distanced himself from the repubgang depicting himself as a 'man of the people.' Seems like the repub and indy gang in MA are repeatedly falling for BS. I'm to sad to say more.
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Doofus
25 Fans
06:59 PM on 01/20/2010
There was perhaps more than a little Mitt Romney involvement in
Scott Brown's campaign, including 'Romney's Brain' Eric Fehrnstrom.
If you can't be the king, it's good to be the king maker. Get ready for 2012.
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