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...January, it was hard to find any place in the state that was not dotted with Brown signs - even in the storefronts and driveways of Hyannis Port, the fabled seaside hometown of the Kennedy clan. As for the message that Brown's flinty 5-point win sent to Democrats across the country, that was summed up by the winner. "What happened in this election can happen all over America," he declared. "When there's trouble in Massachusetts, rest assured there's trouble everywhere - and they know...
...Brown's victory - some called it "the Scott heard round the world" - on the eve of the first anniversary of Barack Obama's Inauguration was an ominous sign for Democrats for the midterm elections ahead and a potentially crippling blow to Obama's entire agenda. Brown ran explicitly on a promise to be the "41st Senator," who would give the Republicans the power to block what he called "the trillion-dollar health care bill that is being forced on the American people," one that will "raise taxes, hurt Medicare, destroy jobs and run our nation deeper into debt...
...cause of my life." And it was all the more ironic considering that Massachusetts has come closer than any other state to assuring coverage to all of its citizens, thanks to a 2006 law that was championed by a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, who was celebrating onstage with Brown on election night...
...talked with voters braving the snow to get a glimpse of Brown in the days leading up to the election, the health care issue came up again and again. They were unsettled by the mounting costs of their state's program and even more so by the process they saw going on in Washington. Rather than being drafted with the common good in mind, they said, the health bill was turning into a series of backroom deals - a Medicaid exemption for Senator Ben Nelson's Nebraska, tax breaks for unions, sweeteners for the hospital and drug industries. As a veteran...
...Then there were Brown's strengths as a fresh, energetic and appealing candidate who stood out in contrast to his Democratic opponent. State attorney general Martha Coakley seemed to take the race so much for granted that she barely bothered to campaign until it was too late. Asked by the Boston Globe about how few campaign appearances she was putting in, she made a dismissive reference to a Brown campaign video: "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands...