Tonight, Democrat Martha Coakley suffered a stunning defeat by Republican Scott Brown in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Sen Edward Kennedy. Stunning, of course, because Massachusetts is a heavily Democratic state that Obama won by 26 points over John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. And, despite the well-documented shortcomings… Read more.
The election of Scott Brown: sound and fury signifying nothing
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 12:04 AM