State Sen. Scott Brown has pulled a Bay State bombshell by upsetting his Democratic rival to capture the open U.S. Senate seat by a 5-point margin.
Brown, 50, of Wrentham, will roll into Washington as Congress wrestles with health-care reform. But Brown has vowed to be “the 41st Senator” who will defeat the measure and bust up the Democratic supermajority.
Democrat Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, has gone down in a stunning defeat. Brown has won 52-47 percent, with 94 percent of the precincts reporting. Independent Joseph L. Kennedy finished way back with 1 precent of the vote.
In her concession speech, Coakley said President Obama called her to say, “We can’t win them all.”
Over at the winner’s party, Brown’s daughter, Ayla, belted out “Dancing in the streets” at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.
Brown swept to victory by getting out the vote in the suburbs where his support was strongest.
“I never thought I’d see the day when a Republican replaces Ted Kennedy,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Herald tonight. “I think Scott Brown caught the wave of anger that’s out there, and the wave of anti-Obama.”
Republicans were quick to cast Brown’s victory as the start of a revolution.
“There is a revolt going on in this country,” gushed GOP activist Bay Buchanan, a former top advisor to Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. “Massachusetts will just inpsire the patriot movement.”
Brown, 50, of Wrentham, will roll into Washington as Congress wrestles with health-care reform. But Brown has vowed to be “the 41st Senator” who will defeat the measure and bust up the Democratic supermajority.
Democrat Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, has gone down in a stunning defeat. Brown has won 52-47 percent, with 94 percent of the precincts reporting. Independent Joseph L. Kennedy finished way back with 1 precent of the vote.
In her concession speech, Coakley said President Obama called her to say, “We can’t win them all.”
Over at the winner’s party, Brown’s daughter, Ayla, belted out “Dancing in the streets” at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.
Brown swept to victory by getting out the vote in the suburbs where his support was strongest.
“I never thought I’d see the day when a Republican replaces Ted Kennedy,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Herald tonight. “I think Scott Brown caught the wave of anger that’s out there, and the wave of anti-Obama.”
Republicans were quick to cast Brown’s victory as the start of a revolution.
“There is a revolt going on in this country,” gushed GOP activist Bay Buchanan, a former top advisor to Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. “Massachusetts will just inpsire the patriot movement.”
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