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...White House hoping to avert an electoral catastrophe in November? One clue can be found coded in the attack ads now chewing up the airwaves in New England. "Who is Scott Brown really?" an ominous voiceover asks about the Republican candidate vying for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat. The ad's answer comes in a quick montage of conservative Republicans, past and present - George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch McConnell - followed by a populist pitch. "He'll block tougher oversight of Wall Street, give more tax breaks to the wealthiest," the breathy announcer continues...
...Obviously we’re very happy with the win,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. “Yale’s a very good team, we have a lot of respect for them…We’re really pleased with the way our guys battled...
Momentum in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat seems to be swinging back to the Democratic candidate, Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley, after a public policy poll over the weekend showed Republican state senator Scott Brown pulling slightly ahead. (Read "The Kennedy Succession: The Coming Scramble...
...mythology that we don't have competitive Senate races in Massachusetts," says John Kerry, Massachusetts' senior Senator. "Look back at those tapes of Bill Weld and I debating each other, or Ted Kennedy's epic race against Mitt Romney. This race is no different. It's a slog, and it's spirited, and Martha's coming out on top. But the frenzied press coverage should be a big fat warning to any Democrat who would let cold weather keep them away from the polls. It's Politics 101, you have to come out and vote...
...stake is far more than a simple Senate seat, even one held by Ted Kennedy. Brown has boasted that if he wins, he'll be the linchpin in a successful GOP filibuster of health care reform, and Coakley has stressed on the campaign that she would be the 60th vote to deliver one of Kennedy's top priorities. If Brown were to win, Democrats would have to drop everything and fly to Maine to find out what Republican moderates Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe might want in exchange for their votes. Or, according to the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Democrats could...