To me, Election Day in Massachusetts can be best summed up by the results of two races.
In one race was an incumbent US senator who is a bipartisan, centrist, decent, law-abiding, hard-working family man. He was ousted from office by a comfortable margin.
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Brown was bipartisan on issues that did not matter and partisan when it did matter. Voted - in fact, pushed for - watering down controls on the banks that virtually drove us into recession; voted against equal pay for women; voted to limit the stimulus when every reputable economist argued for more; signed on to the Blunt amendment, an attack on women's right to control their own health care, etc. A pickup and a barncoat are not enough. He lost for very good reasons. Get over it.
Unfortunately, it's to be expected in this bluest-of-blue states where people vote the party and steadfastly refuse to look at the PERSON who is running for office and what they stand for.
It's beyond obvious that Warren will vote with her party 100% of the time, doing their bidding like a good lackey vs. actually reading the bill (along with all of the pork barrel spending add-ons that other members of Congress cram into various bills) and deciding on its merits whether it warrants a yea or nay vote.
Quite sad.
How did the last several gubernatorial races, prior to Deval Patrick's election, turn out? I seem to remember Weld, a Republican, and also some guy named Romney.... So much for the idea that voters in MA don't look at the candidate.
Scott Brown was an empty barn coat driving a pickup truck delivering fresh fertilizer produced by bulls.
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Oh, please. Republican crybabies whimpering about how unfair life is because the propaganda they chose to believe was rejected by the masses can sit down, shut up, and go suck their thumbs.
News flash, GOP automatons: nobody cares what kind of nonsense you've chosen to believe in anymore. The GOP has failed. It has sputtered to a halt, fresh out of gas (despite plenty of mindless gasbags eager and willing to distort reality in any way they can).
Run along, little guy, and take your garbage delusions with you. I highly suggest if you don't like the results of the MA Senate race that you get the hell out of here, and move someplace more in line with your ideals. Try Texas; they're broke, intellectually bankrupt, and completely incapable of successful self-government, but they repeat the same moronic claptrap as you, so I'm sure you'll fit right in there. Sayonara!