Thursday, 21 January 2010

dnesday, 20th January 2010

Hope'n'change in Massachusetts

11:18pm


The stunning upset for Obama in Massachusetts, where the Democrats have lost an apparently impregnable seat they had held for nearly six decades and with it their Senate super-majority, is being put down in some quarters to a revolt against the President’s health care plan, in others to a general disillusionment. Those crunching the numbers have a rather different explanation. While issues such as the economy and healthcare were undoubtedly important, one issue in particular appeared to be the clincher. As Clarice Feldman notes on American Thinker:

The key issue for Massachusetts voters was not healthcare or spending. It was national security and the treatment of enemy terrorists.

Of course it was. And the thuggery. And the arrogance.This is what the Republican victor, Scott Brown, said in his speech after the result:

And let me say

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