NEW YORK TIMES REPORTING ON MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RACE

When you're in a senate race, lack of publicity means an increase in obscurity. The inverse is also true and currently being experienced by the Republican candidate for the senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy, Scott Brown.

From the NYT:

BOSTON — Martha M. Coakley, the Democrat running for Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts, had seemed so certain of winning the special election on Jan. 19 that she barely campaigned last month.

But the dynamic has changed in recent days. The news that two senior Democratic senators will retire this year in the face of bleak re-election prospects has created anxiety and, even in this bluest of states, a sense that the balance of power has shifted dramatically from just a year ago.

It's still a very long shot but with public opinion on Obamacare growing increasingly passionate and more lopsided, anything is possible. Brown has also committed to stopping the bill if he is elected.

Think about it for a second. By Ted Kennedy staying in office until he died, the seat he vacated when doing so will have gone to someone who will have prevented Kennedy's dream of government run health care from becoming a reality.

Can you smell the irony?

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