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When Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown started his campaign to fill Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat with few 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...
Quotes About: "Scott Brown: So Republican, he's even registered as a Republican." - Parody campaign video aired on Michael Graham's popular Boston talk-radio program...
Quotes By: "This isn't Ted Kennedy's seat. This is the people's seat." - When asked if he was worried that a Republican hadn't held a Massachusetts Senate seat since 1972 (The Boston Globe...
...really have to check that far back. I really don't have the time, nor do I care." - When asked why he became a Republican (The Weekly Standard...
...there to see and shake hands with Scott Brown, the Republican state senator who may be just hours away from one of the biggest upset victories in modern political history. If the latest polls are to be believed, Brown holds a narrow edge in his bid to win a special election to the Senate - from a state that more than any other is synonymous with liberalism. Even more remarkable, it is a seat that has been represented nearly continuously by a Kennedy for over half a century. Democrats now say privately that their last hope is that a superior...