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...This is the first moment since I came to college that I wish, for a moment, that I were a registered Massachusetts voter,” Wagley said. “I’m getting people excited, but I can’t vote for Scott Brown...
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...
Members of the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club had been making phone calls over the past week to try to get out the vote, according to Dems President Jason Q. Berkenfeld ’11 and HRC President Mark A. Isaacson...
...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...
...over her brash attempt to levy a hefty tax on the country's lucrative soy exports in 2008. The move, announced just prior to the commencement of the yearly harvest, enraged farmers and caused a revolt that enjoyed widespread popular support. Peace was restored only after a cliffhanger congressional vote against the proposed tax in which Vice President Cobos cast the deciding negative vote, saying he believed "national peace" was a higher priority than a new tax. That move earned him the undying enmity of Fernandez...