With 96% of all precincts reporting, Scott Brown has been declared the winner in the special election to replace the late Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy. What seemed impossible just months ago when the Democratic favorite Martha "Marsha" Coakley was up by as much 30 points in some polls has shocked the political world. I know people will talk about this for weeks to come, but the funny thing is all of this could have been avoided.
You see when there was a Republican Governor by the name of Mitt Romney, the Dems in Mass. changed the rules so that the Governor couldn't fill the empty Senate seat by appointment. The Dems thought (Lurch)Sen. John Kerry was going to win the presidency (in 2004). They thought, hey we should hold a special election (to avoid having a Republican appointed). Well none of this matters, because Kerry didn't win. In the end this came back to bite them, because if the rules had remained the same the now Democratic governor could have appointed someone (most likely a Democrat to fill Kennedy's seat or as Brown so eloquently put it the peoples seat of Massachusetts). As a racist pastor once said....the chickens are coming home to roost!
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