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Brown’s victory will change the Democratic majority in the US Senate from 60-40 to 59-41. But listening to political pundits you’d think that he alone now holds the power not only to defeat Obama’s policy agenda (most notably healthcare reform), but also to render him a failed one-term president. In fact, nothing could be further… Read more.
The same pundits who, just a year ago, were propagating the notion Obama’s historic election signaled the end of the Republican Party as a viable force in American politics. Now they would have you believe that the Brown’s upset election signals the end of the Democratic Party…. [Election of Scott Brown: sound and fury signifying… Read more.
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.
