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Scott Brown Effect? Not in Massachusetts
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Nov 03, 2010 02:36pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Abby Goodnough |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 3, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When Scott R. Brown stunned the nation by winning Edward M. Kennedy’s longtime Senate seat last winter, putting it in Republican hands for the first time in decades, he inspired legions of upstart Republicans to challenge seemingly invincible Democrats.
“What happened here in Massachusetts could happen all over America,” Mr. Brown said in his victory speech.
On Tuesday, it did — except in Massachusetts. The state’s voters defied the national trend, re-electing all nine Democratic incumbents in its House delegation and delivering the one open seat — in a district that Mr. Brown won overwhelmingly — to a Democrat as well.
Gov. Deval Patrick defeated his Republican challenger, Charlie Baker, by seven percentage points, a wider margin than expected. Attorney General Martha Coakley, whose political career seemed all but dead after she lost the Senate race to Mr. Brown, easily won re-election. And Democrats also won every other statewide office, from auditor to treasurer to secretary of state.
There was, however, one piece of good news for Republicans: they picked up 14 seats in the state’s House of Representatives, increasing their membership in the 160-seat chamber to 34. |
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