iag | blog » elections http://blog.sterniag.com where the weekend starts Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:41:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 All Eyes on Massachusetts http://blog.sterniag.com/2010/01/19/all-eyes-on-massachusetts/ http://blog.sterniag.com/2010/01/19/all-eyes-on-massachusetts/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:16:46 +0000 Daniel http://blog.sterniag.com/?p=133 As I compose this blog on the first day of school, the polls are now open in Massachusetts for a special election for the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s vacant seat. Though Martha Coakley – the state’s Democratic Attorney General – has been widely foretasted to easily win the election, in recent weeks Republican Scott Brown has surged to the front of the race on the back of a well orchestrated campaign that played well into popular discontent with elevated unemployment, health-care reform and other entitlement programs that are a signature of the Democratic majority.

A Republican victory tonight would remove the 60-seat, bulletproof  – or rather filibuster-proof – Democratic majority in the Senate and potentially put the Obama administration’s health care and social agenda in significant jeopardy. Let’s see what happens.

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