Seeing Red In America’s Bluest State

Written by Spencer Price
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“Historical” – that’s the word many republicans are using to describe State Senator Scott Brown’s victory over Attorney General Martha Coakley in the recent special election to fill the late Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts senate seat. The word many democrats are using to describe the outcome of the much ballyhooed race is…”shocking.”

Massachusetts, or “Taxachusetts as it is often called, has long been considered by many as America’s bluest state. “Land of the Kennedys,” currently, all 10 of its representatives are democrats and, until the recent Brown victory, both of its senators were democrats as well.