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As Scott Brown told the story the morning after the election, the first sign that something remarkable was about to happen in the Democratic stronghold of Massachusetts was ... well, it was a sign. One with his name on it. Someone had made it by hand and planted it in the...
By mid-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...
That such a message would resonate here was poignant, given that no one had fought harder and longer than Kennedy for universal health care, something that the terminally ill liberal lion had referred to before his death in August as "the cause of my life." And it was all the...
As I 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...
Brown may have benefited from being underestimated. As a 22-year-old law student, Brown posed nude for a Cosmopolitan magazine "America's Sexiest Man" photo spread that was resurrected and became an Internet sensation during the campaign. But he is also a 30-year veteran of the Massachusetts Army...