Plato's never seen a funny Downfall about US politics, until this - quite brilliant.
If you're not a follower of last night's election to find a new Senator after the death of Ted Kennedy [Mr Many Skeletons], the result that someone called Scott Brown, a Republican - won is probably a so-what moment...it's not.
Massachusetts is like Bootle in electoral terms - it's been a Democrat state since JFK was it's Senator - yes that long ago. His brother Ted was Senator for 47 yrs.
It is almost impossible to overstate just how huge a win this is.
Massachusetts has all its 10 congressmen Democrats, both US Senators Democrats, all statewide elected office holders Democrats, and 175 out of 200 state house members Democrats.
It was the ONLY state that stayed Democrat when Nixon's Republicans took ALL the others.
Seismic.
Not bad. I'm sure Obama can still count on a lot of the media to play to his tune though.
ReplyDeleteThis whole episode will be forgotten soon enough.
Scott Bwown certainly dwives a twuck
ReplyDeleteGood result, but a shame about the name. Let's hope the accursed one will not damn him (or gain from association)
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