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    GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    BOSTON – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office.

    The loss by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

    More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

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    Re: GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    Epic fail by the Dems.
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    Re: GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    Both Coakley and Obama have called Brown to congratulate him.
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    Re: GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    This is a huge blow to the President, his administration, and the proposed healthcare bill.

    Massachusetts, while historically very democrat, also has one of the highest number of registered independent voters. A year ago they all voted overwhelmingly "blue" for Obama. Fast forward just a year since he took office and these voters have done a complete 180 and did the "unthinkable"; vote for a republican. I think this echoes a lot of the sentiments the American public feels in regard to the President's first year in office, especially in regards to some of the recent decisions, actions (or lack thereof) and maybe most importantly the proposed healthcare bill, which is turning out to be a trainwreck....

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    Re: GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    Probably didn't help that Coakley is not the brightest bulb. And two of the most out-of-control Dems, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, are in their own neighborhood.
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    I love how they call the people they are kicking out nazis. Where they are the ones irate that the people had a voice.
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    I just saw that video. Any idea who it was they kicked out?
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    Re: GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    If you listen to the beginning of the video seems like it was media, what media I don't know but maybe it will come out.
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    Re: GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    wow talk about sore losers...lol

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    Re: GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

    These never get old:

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