A republican senator is going to get caught ______________ (insert something like "child porn", family affair etc.. )

I"m glad its over living in Mass that is all ya hear bout all day long sorry but im getting tired of it..

How can the Liberals blame this on Bush?

I see this election as result of the public outrage against the Obama and the dems, how they didn't do jack for an entire year.

Take my word for it.


This is a revenge attack, just like not long ago, electing the New Jersey governor, who is also republican (Chris Christie)

See more similar vote outcomes coming near you this year.

but is this not the American people speaking out through their voting????

toldja

they are losing the middle of the roaders

the Democrats have let the extreme lefties take control of the party and they are losing the middle of the roaders the same way the republican extreme righties did

time for new party

HA,HA!Someone throw the Democrats a lifeboat.Their ship is sinking!

You know the Democraps are in deep trouble when Ted kennedys seat is replaced by a Republican!I love it!Two of the most Liberal states in America have been replaced by Republicans.Let's hope they don't screw it up.If Obamas hair isn't white by now it will be soon.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_massachusetts_senate

GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset


BOSTON – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office.

The loss by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

Democratic fingerpointing began more than a week ago as polls started showing a tight race, with the White House accusing Coakley of a poor campaign and the Coakley camp laying at some of the blame on the administration. Obama flew to Boston for last-ditch personal campaigning on Sunday.

With 87 percent of precincts counted, Brown led Coakley, 52 percent to 47 percent.

The election transformed reliably Democratic Massachusetts into a battleground state. One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama's swearing-in, it played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment from voters over persistently high unemployment, industry bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care.

For weeks considered a long shot, Brown seized on such discontent to overtake Coakley in the final stretch of the campaign. Surveys showed his candidacy energized Republicans, including backers of the grass-roots "tea party" movement, while attracting disappointed Democrats and independents uneasy with where they felt the nation was heading.

Turnout was relatively heavy for a special election despite a mix of snow and rain showers across the state virtually all day.

Though he wasn't on the ballot, the president was on many voters' minds.

"I voted for Obama because I wanted change. ... I thought he'd bring it to us, but I just don't like the direction that he's heading," said John Triolo, 38, a registered independent who voted in Fitchburg.

He said his frustrations, including what he considered the too-quick pace of health care legislation, led him to vote for Brown.

But Robert Hickman, 55, of New Bedford, said he backed Coakley "to stay on the same page with the president."

Even before the first results were announced, administration officials were privately accusing Coakley of a poorly run campaign and playing down the notion that Obama or a toxic political landscape had much to do with the outcome.

Coakley's supporters, in turn, blamed that very environment, saying her lead dropped significantly after the Senate passed health care reform shortly before Christmas and after the Christmas Day attempted airliner bombing that Obama himself said showed a failure of his administration.

While votes were still being cast, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president "was both surprised and frustrated ... not pleased" at how competitive the race had become in the final weeks.

Wall Street watched the election closely. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 116 points, and analysts attributed the increase to hopes the election would make it harder for Obama to make his changes to health care. That eased investor concerns that profits at companies such as insurers and drug makers would suffer.

Across Massachusetts, voters who had been bombarded with phone calls and dizzied with nonstop campaign commercials for Coakley and Brown gave a fitting turnout despite intermittent snow and rain statewide.

Secretary of State William Galvin, who discounted sporadic reports of voter irregularities throughout the day, predicted turnout ranging from 1.6 million to 2.2 million, 40 percent to 55 percent of registered voters. The Dec. 8 primary had a scant turnout of about 20 percent.

Voters considered national issues including health care and the federal budget deficits.

"We don't want health care just for the rich and the middle class. We need it for everyone," said Democrat Neicei Degen, 82, who voted for Coakley in hopes of saving Obama's plan that would extend coverage to millions of uninsured.

Fears about spending drove Karla Bunch, 49, to vote for Brown. "It's time for the country, for the taxpayers, to take back their money," she said.

For others, feelings about the candidates themselves shaped their votes.

Recalling that Brown once posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine, Kaitlin Addams, 50, said she reluctantly voted for Coakley "to make sure the pinup boy doesn't get into office. I don't like his stand on issues. He's an extreme conservative."

Conversely, Elizabeth Reddin, 65, voted for Brown because she said she was turned off by the Democrat's negative advertisements, saying: "The Coakley stuff was disgusting."

As polls opened, Brown drove up to his polling place in Wrentham in the green pickup truck that came to symbolize his upstart, workmanlike campaign that in the past week pulled him into a surprise dead heat in polls.

"It would make everybody the 41st senator, and it would bring fairness and discussion back to the equation," the state senator said of a potential victory. He spent the rest of the day out of public view, crafting evening rally remarks that had the potential to be an early State of the Union speech for the national Republican Party.

Coakley, stunned to see a double-digit lead evaporate in recent weeks, counted on labor unions and reawakened Democrats to turn out on her behalf and preserve a seat Kennedy and his brother, President John F. Kennedy, held for over 50 years. The senator died in August of brain cancer.

"We're paying attention to the ground game," Coakley, the state's attorney general, said casting her vote in suburban Medford. "Every game has its own dynamics."

This could still backfire. The Reps could use the one extra member to stall everything and then get voter backlash from it later.

assuming the Dems let them play in their reindeer games and not shut them out from having a voice.

Brown campaigned on being the 41st vote to block the health care bill and the people spoke.
They voted for him!
Obviously thats what the people want so I don't see it backfiring on the Republicans. If anything it's a sign to the Democrats to start working with all of congress not just themselves!
There is a lot of scared Democrats in Washington right now!

I'm sure that's what "Atlantis75" was saying ... a "public outrage" would be
the voters taking a stand. There's never been a Repub holding that seat
since the early '70's ... plus Mass is traditionally majority Demo ... what does
that say the voters (public) are thinking?

I think that is what he was saying too. I just wanted to re-enforce that

I have no doubt that this is the result of the health care bill. The backlash to which I referred pertained all the subsequent votes to come between now and the next election.

Like I said earlier...1 switched sides because of this bill, 1 was "bribed" for his vote, the Dems don't want transparency with this and now a Rep has been voted in

when do the red flags come out?

I hope, with all of my heart, that this won't be the end of the health care bill.

We'll see ... I bet ACORN has a say in this :) (ACORN's national president resides in Mass).

The real problem, though, is that the ObamaCare bill could still
be voted in, due to delays in voter counting (absentee, military)
and the general process. But let's hope not !!

I hope it's the begining of a sensable healthcare bill. Hopefully the Deocrats will get the hint and start working with the Repunlicans on the bill, and not try to just push anything through just to get a bill passed.

Tjn,

I liked the health care bill better when it wasn't watered down.

I expect em to

neither side is very good at interpreting what the people really want

you are right...which is why we have so much trouble getting what is best for America