That appears to be it. Scott Brown has won the Massachusetts Senatorial race.
According to an aide for the Republican candidate, opponent Martha Coakley called Brown earlier this evening and conceded the race for Ted Kennedy's former seat.
It has been a fascinating evening of channel surfing on the election, first catching all the reaction on local TV outlets - which was, for the most part, journalistically sound and balanced - then flipping to the far-right celebration of Fox News, and the far-left hue and cry of MSNBC, which seemed almost to want to top each other in terms of bluster. Over the coming days, when local Republicans and Democrats are certain to be at odds, local outlets such as WBVB should be credited for keeping an even keel on election night.
This race will have a lot of repercussions nationwide, most notably in relation to President Obama's healthcare reform plan. However, the way Coakley ran her campaign over the past few weeks will be in the immediate spotlight as the Democrats try to get the license plate of the Scott Brown truck that ran them over.
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Pity what happened here. History will be judged. If you are all being reactive instead of being proactive or blaming the President for the state of the economy then you are all due for a rude awakening.
I don’t think the best candidate won but now that he has inherited all that goes with thev Kennedys – Watch this space
I personally feel that the advantages and canidates are as equal or even the norm of which canidate be republican or democrat the up beat of it all is the politicians have gotten so dirty all the while you look at adds to where they show imigages if their family and like one or all the others from mayoral canidates they try to show the struggles and up bringing while in the cornor or behind the rear door thhey are no better off then the average house hold except mostlikely have support or money to run because they are all looking for the right door to open like in the price is right door 1 or 2 or three has the grand prize. In reality we as americans can really just sit idol or begin to start getting answers and quit suckingtheir way to being a lobbist for canidate support just like hounds in Washington polling for our new president elect etc? Now all of a sudden under the first amendment these justices who have been elected and appointed have turned the ruling out on no matter who you are as a company you can support your canidate with all your wealth to give him support and tv time with no end on what the cost, is this the true American dream for individuals who are poor that want to run for president yet your dream has been destroyed because the system wants to control to run the United States for the rich and Famous and Johnny apple seed ate his last apple. This is not America.
Yes, Fox is a right-wing blustering media outlet that pretends to be a news show. Since when is MSNBC “left”? And “far left”? Of what? Fox? Who wrote this (not) “neutral” comment for your web site? This is the kind of ignorant and biased reporting that should be abolished from your site.