No matter the outcome tonight, this race never should have been close in the first place. Even if Martha Coakley wins a close race against her Republican challenger Scott Brown, this race should have Democrats across the nation worried. If they are having a tough time in a very solidly blue state like Massachusetts, then this will send shock waves across the nation. The core to the president election last year was huge support from independent voters, and now these same voters are fleeing in from the president’s policies as over sixty percent of independent voters have stated that they are supporting Scott Brown. A sharp contrast from over a year ago, this wasn’t the change they expected or wanted!
With the mid-term elections less than ten months away and the president poll numbers now less than fifty percent, the Democrats are going to face a tough road ahead. The key will be the economy and I seriously doubt that the economy will revive by then, plus Democrats are still insisting on passing a very unpopular health care bill that the majority of Americans oppose.
Moderate to conservative Democrats should be extremely worried that if Democrats have a hard time winning or even losing in Massachusetts, then what chance will they have? The defining issue of the Massachusetts race was health care and Scott Brown repeatedly campaigned that he would be the forty first vote against health care reform. Democrats who vote for it will face the anger of voters and November will be a black day for Democrats and they have only themselves to blame.
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