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Originally Posted by gales0678
scuds you can paint it anyway you want , yesterday and the gov races in nov show the independents have given up on the dems for now
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Rather than governors, what about New York, the Congressional race that went Dem for the first time in decades? Those voters spit out the tea-bag candidate.
Looks like one up for Congress for Dems, one up for Senate for GOP.
Edit: I don't think people know who they are voting for - other than anger at the status quo:
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Reporting from Washington - Senator-elect Scott Brown -- the truck-driving, "tea party"-backed Republican who scored an upset victory in Massachusetts -- visited Capitol Hill on Thursday and quickly picked up a nickname: 41.
Brown, a state senator, is hardly a political novice. But he campaigned as an outsider, driving a pickup and portraying Democratic candidate Martha Coakley as a cog in the majority party's political machine.
His profile as a conservative firebrand was burnished by his supporters in the so-called tea party, the grass-roots movement that has challenged the credentials of establishment Republicans such as Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out of a special congressional election last year amid the criticism.
Yet an analysis of Brown's record by Boris Schor of the University of Chicago's public policy school found the senator-elect to be more liberal than Scozzafava. He has supported abortion rights and come out against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage -- an issue he has said should be up to states to decide. As a state legislator, he also supported Massachusetts' groundbreaking legislation to provide universal healthcare.
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