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Brown defeated Democrat and Mass. Attorney General Martha M. Coakley, receiving 52 percent of the vote in the special election to replace Kennedy, who passed away last August...
...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...
...backers and comparatively little money, few people expected him to win - or even come close. But thanks to his promise to use his crucial vote to block the Democrats' congressional health care reform bill, he has gained the support of conservative special-interest groups and beat Democratic opponent Martha Coakley in the Jan. 19 special election. This is big news in Massachusetts - and Washington. A Brown victory - for the seat of liberal lion and health care reform champion Ted Kennedy, no less - signals the extent of national discord over the bill, even in a left-leaning state that hasn...
...Only two months ago, Brown's opponent, state attorney general Martha Coakley, sat atop a 30-point lead in the race. If she loses, many will place a significant share of the blame on her weakness as a candidate. She ran a lackluster campaign, seemingly unaware of the danger she was in. When the Boston Globe asked her why she held so few public events, she replied dismissively, "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold?" - a reference to one of Brown's online videos. If that weren't enough to alienate Red Sox Nation, she probably finished...
...paid for by the Senate campaign of Democrat Martha Coakley, but its regular-guy-against-the-rich strategy was developed months ago by top White House aides, who know their party faces a perilous election this fall. This same strategy was much in evidence at the White House Thursday, when President Obama proposed a new tax on large banks to compensate for losses suffered by taxpayers in bailouts of the financial industry that began in the final months of the Bush Administration. "We want our money back, and we are going to get it," the President said, using unusually informal...