Brown Wins Kennedy Seat In Massachusetts, Erasing Democrats' 60-Seat Super Majority

For all of you who participated in this election, thank you. I am sorry it was not enough. Hopefully Plan B goes into effect now.

She deserved to lose because she was a lazy, arrogant candidate who didn't work as hard as Brown did. Simple as that.

Dems needed a good kick in the face of reality, and they sure as hell got it tonight.

And I am 100% with Josh...all Democrats, shut you damn mouths and keep working. Quit acting like such pansies all the damn time.

"But as national attention focused on the race it raised the stakes for health care and her edge slipped away."

- So it WAS a referendum on ObamaCare then.

At least we no longer have to hear press pretend Dems have "60 votes" when one of those is Lieberman. "With 60 votes, why aren't you doing anything?"

Funny tho, this takes us back to the beginning of 2009, before Spector switched. Keep that in mind. If Scott tis the "end of the world" for Dems, why wasn't Spector the "end of the world" for GOP? Just the usual rightward double standards. Franken's win wasn't spun into a larger narrative either.

They have to win this seat back in 2012.

Brown will have only "no" votes and no accomplishments by then.

Vapid pretty boy will be revealed to be the usual GOP tool who votes party line on every issue.

I took a year out from Grad school in 08, fully devoting to the Obama campaign. I’m sure there are many who had spend money, time and life hoping for a better tomorrow. So, I don’t consider myself making any more of a sacrifice that many hardcore volunteers I had encountered.
Ever since I have, preposterously, invested even more time, emotion and resources- at times excited and hopeful and other times concerned and disgruntled- but rooting for the success of the Obama agenda, for most part
The severe compromises on healthcare as it grinded through the House and the Senate and the stories on WH close ties and unreasonable favors to Wall Street have been heart wrenching to notice. Not to mention, I will graduate this semester- and I’m afraid of the prospects of plunging into the empty swimming pool with unemployment rate at 10%
Anyway, while I haven’t paid much close attention to the MA-Senate race- in the past few weeks and especially tonight I did feel I had wasted an year of my life on the road, and even more at my desk getting informed and opinionated on all political issues- naively assuming that somehow this is all connected to my own life.
I have a shit load of debt, and though a long time coming- I had a reality check in the past few weeks. Let the politicians and politics, and those who actually get paid to pay attention, take care of the circus. Frankly, it doesn’t matter much who wins or loses- it doesn’t seem change our lives much.

Gawds, spare me 48 hours of DC Villager 'wisdom' on what this election really means.

My analysis is that the country is reverting to its conservative self, now that the financial crisis has dissipated somewhat.

I think historians will consider Obama's election as an anomaly, largely driven by extraordinary set of circumstances.

Once in office, and no longer supported by public fear of financial meltdown, Obama has been successfully targeted by the republican smear machine, as has every democratic president before him. This time, however, it was also aided by the always present American racialism, which went dormant during the presidential election, but is now back to normal.

Given today's results in my state, I would expect ever more tea party attacks, now fully embraced by republican leadership, tearing Obama to pieces as a terrorist-loving, white hating, income redistributionist, working to empty the white middle class wallets to give its money to you know who.

The good times are over, people. The next three years are going to be a never ending parade of ugly from an never ending supply of stupid.

Remember TPM readers and Josh in particular: cowboys don't cry.

By attempting bipartisanship and compromise with the GOP, Obama managed to triangulate himself into a lame duck after only one year in office! This is a remarkable achievement - there have been many one-term presidents, but NOT one has managed to become a lame duck during his very first year in office. So, congratulations Barry - you are a remarkable weasel!

What a sad sad group of selfish self serving creeps live in Mass. For democrats to align themselves with the likes of tea bagger is an absolute disgrace and I am sure that there are three no make that four very sad souls in heaven tonight Joe, John, Bobby, and Ted. Four gentlemen who essentially gave their lives for the betterment of all Americans and to have that legacy replaced by the likes of this fool Brown well it just shows how far the mighty voters of Mass. have fallen what a sad sad day for all of America.

Obama has proved a complete disaster for the Democratic Party. In one short year, he's squashed an energized base anxious for reform and completely demoralized the soul of the party. He's a weak, he's inexperienced, he's a preening premadonna. He never should have been the Democratic nominee. He was nominated by big money and he's bowed to their every wish ever since. If I had to do it over again, I would have voted for John McCain. And the voters of Massachusetts have just reached the same conclusion. At least with McCain, there was a chance that he would have been a strong president who challenged entrenched special interests in Washington. But with this president, there is absolutely no chance of that ever happening.

I think people are reading too much into this.

Get a grip.

Coakley sucked as a candidate. And she lost because of it. She was a gaffe machine. She came across as complacent, entitled, and arrogant. A sleepwalker who origianally believed all you had to do to win in Mass, was be a Democrat.

The wrong tone for this economic environment. And the wrong candidate. By the time she realized she needed to actually get out there on the streets, and FIGHT, it was too late.

Brown, by contrast, came off fresh, energetic, and concerned.

So its no wonder he won.

And you can't link a Brown win nationally to HIR. Because they already have HIR in Mass. So what was in it, for them in Mass anyway?

No. This was lost, on the ground, due to local issues, by Coakley and the Mass dem party themselves. Not by national considerations.

Brown's win is not about thew need for Obama to "adjust" his agenda. It is a sign that the White House and Democrats need to do a better job of defining the GOP and in selling their own message.

A loss by a remarkably bad candidate who received historically bad advice (namely to not campaign for election) must be judged carefully.

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This will all die down just like the upstate New York race did. Obama definitely has some soul searching to do. Perhaps letters and calls to the White House are in order.

Brown = male Sarah Palin. The tabloids are going to LOVE him. Get ready--affairs, secret (or not-so-secret) porn videos. Should be entertaining.