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Brown’s victory strips the Democrats of their supermajority in the Senate and reins in their ability to pass legislation overhauling the country’s health care system—a long-time goal of the late Senator Kennedy. Brown made his opposition to health care reform and his ability to hinder the bill one of the hallmarks of his campaign...
...close race between Brown and Coakley led to a high turnout in the polls. Overall, Massachusetts had a 54 percent turnout rate, with 54 percent of eligible Cambridge voters casting their ballot in the special election...
...Brown's victory is a warning shot to all Democrats running in 2010,” Isaacson said, “because if an underdog Republican candidate can win a decisive victory in the bluest of blue states, no Democrat is safe...
...little-known Republican state senator on Tuesday night pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in modern political history, potentially dealing a crippling blow to President Obama's agenda. As Scott Brown claimed victory in his bid to become the first GOP Senator to represent Massachusetts in nearly four decades, he told his ecstatic supporters that they had sent a message that is likely to shake Democrats across the nation at the onset of the congressional midterm election season. "What happened here can happen all over America," Brown declared. The Democrats, he predicted, "will be challenged again and again...
...Brown campaigned against his opponent, state attorney general Martha Coakley, on a promise to be the "41st Senator" - the one whose vote would give the Republicans the power to block Obama's health care bill with a filibuster. And yet, the ironies were deep. Brown won in a special election to fill an opening created by the death in August of Edward Kennedy, who had often described universal health coverage as "the cause of my life." And his victory came at the hands of voters whose state has come closer than any other to achieving that goal, thanks...