Posted on Wednesday, 20th January 2010 by Gene Quinn
Yesterday a shot was fired across the bow of the USS Democratic Party. Surprisingly, the shot was fired by voters in Massachusetts, perhaps one of the most liberal states in America, who elected Republican Scott Brown to the United States Senate. It is certainly true that Massachusetts will vote Republican for Chief Executive, as evidenced by the Commonwealth electing Governors Bill Weld and Mitt Romney, among others, and voting twice for President Ronald Reagan (see 1984 map and 1980 map), but when it comes to the State Legislature and the US Congress, Massachusetts, referred to by Sean Hannity as the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, decidedly slants to the left and is about as solid a blue State as you can find. I personally think it is way over the top to refer to Massachusetts as “the People’s Republic,” which obviously seeks to compare the Commonwealth with China, but there is no doubting that if Democrats cannot hold on to the Senate seat held by the late Senator Ted Kennedy then this foretells troubled times on the horizon for the Democrats and Obama’s change agenda.
Tags: bill weld, Congress, Election 2010, Health Care, hillary clinton, martha coakley, mitt romney, obama, scott brown, senate, ted kennedy
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