Brown Win On Massachusett Senate Race Results -- Tuesday is the special election for the U.S senate. At this time, Republican candidate - Scott Brown - won a major upset victory in Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy. Brown get 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
Voters across Massachusetts braved winter chilled and snow for an election with high stakes -- the domestic agenda of President Obama, including his priority of health care reform.
Brown's victory made real the once unthinkable prospect of a Republican filling the stool held by Kennedy, known as the liberal lion, for 47 years until his death from brain cancer in August.
Brown's victory strips Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Senate Democrats needed all 60 votes in their caucus to pass the health care bill, and the loss of two stool imperils generating that support again for a compromise measure worked out with the House.
Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said last week that certifying Tuesday's election results could take over four weeks -- potentially time to permit congressional Democrats to pass a final health care bill before Brown is seated.
Galvin had predicted as lots of as 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In two sign of high interest, over 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to Galvin's spokesman, Brian McNiff.
But multiple Democratic sources said this is unlikely. Even if House and Senate Democrats could reach a deal to meld their bills and pass them in the next couple of weeks, there would be a giant outcry from not only Republicans, but also an increasingly distrustful public if they appeared to be rushing it through.
Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Kennedy, who made health care reform the centerpiece of his Senate career.
Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation.
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Voters across Massachusetts braved winter chilled and snow for an election with high stakes -- the domestic agenda of President Obama, including his priority of health care reform.
Brown's victory made real the once unthinkable prospect of a Republican filling the stool held by Kennedy, known as the liberal lion, for 47 years until his death from brain cancer in August.
Brown's victory strips Democrats of the 60-seat Senate supermajority needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities. Senate Democrats needed all 60 votes in their caucus to pass the health care bill, and the loss of two stool imperils generating that support again for a compromise measure worked out with the House.
Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said last week that certifying Tuesday's election results could take over four weeks -- potentially time to permit congressional Democrats to pass a final health care bill before Brown is seated.
Galvin had predicted as lots of as 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary. In two sign of high interest, over 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to Galvin's spokesman, Brian McNiff.
But multiple Democratic sources said this is unlikely. Even if House and Senate Democrats could reach a deal to meld their bills and pass them in the next couple of weeks, there would be a giant outcry from not only Republicans, but also an increasingly distrustful public if they appeared to be rushing it through.
Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Kennedy, who made health care reform the centerpiece of his Senate career.
Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide. In addition, no Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation.
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