Its official! Scott Brown wins THE PEOPLE’s seat in Massachusetts

scott_brownCoakley calls Scott Brown to concede! Thank you Massachusetts for proving me wrong! Liberals loved to claim Obama’s win in 2008 was a landslide with 53% of the vote. So using their “logic” I can declare Scott Brown a landslide, especially coming from a state as blue as Massachusetts. With 95 percent of precincts reporting, returns show Brown leading Coakley 52-47 percent, by a margin of more than 112,000 votes. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy was pulling 1 percent. Gateway Pundit captured a great tweet after it became official that Brown won. Let Scott Brown give the GOP response to Obama’s State of the Union address – in his GM TRUCK!

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Isn’t this a beautiful site? Pic courtesy of Mary Katharine Ham from Twitter.

Story from Fox News:

The victory marks a stunning upset in a race thought to be safe for Democrats until Brown’s campaign began to surge just weeks ago. And it has powerful ramifications for Obama’s agenda.

The GOP state senator, once sworn in, will break the Democrats’ 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in Washington. This creates problems for proposed legislation ranging from financial regulatory reform to cap-and-trade, but most immediately Brown’s win sends Democrats into a scramble to pass health care reform before he arrives in Washington. Democrats were already weighing options for how to fast-track the bill before polls closed Tuesday.
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Brown’s margin of victory is significant, making it difficult for any potential challenges to slow down his certification as the winner. The state senator becomes the first Republican to be elected to the Senate from the Bay State since 1972.

Kennedy, who died in August, held the post for 47 years.

“This is a lot different than my victory,” former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney said. “To have a Republican senator, that’s unheard of. … This is monumental. This is epic.”

He and other Republicans said the race sends a warning sign to Washington that voters are not happy with Obama’s policy decisions.

Considering how much was on the line, Brown’s late-in-the-game surge commanded the attention of the Democratic Party establishment, which dispatched top officials over the past week to try to keep the seat formerly held by Kennedy in Democratic hands. Voter interest in the race for U.S. Senate also seemed high throughout the day. Poll workers reported a steady stream of voters at the ballot box despite the snow. Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin was predicting turnout could be as high as 50 percent.

The two candidates were far apart on the issues, but even in this heavily Democratic state Brown built an insurgent campaign that started resonating with voters at just the right time.

Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-to-1 in the state — 37 percent of registered voters are Democrats, 12 percent are Republicans and 51 percent are unaffiliated. Obama won the state by 26 percentage points in the 2008 presidential election.

Brown’s campaign marked an upset just by being as competitive as it was against Coakley’s.


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January 19, 2010 · Filed Under Scott Brown

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