Blue Mass. Stands Apart From Nation [View All]

[No Elephants]

Source: WBUR

By Dan Payne Nov 3, 2010, 12:14 AM

Massachusetts tonight proved that Sen. Scott Brown’s victory in January was more fluke than the leading edge of a trend. As of now, it looks like a clean sweep for incumbents in Congress and an all-Democratic night for candidates for constitutional office (Suzanne Bump leads Mary Z. Connaughton, of this writing).

Rep. Jeff Perry’s loss proves that Character trumps Ideology, as voters in the 10th district chose to believe the victim of a strip search rather than Perry’s account. Brown is going to have to relive his deep and abiding support for Perry in Brown’s re-election in 2012.

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Rep. Barney Frank’s victory gives him a rewarding capstone to a 30-plus-year career in which he has never lost an election, going back to his days as a state legislator and now 16 terms in Congress. Frank has become, with the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the favorite whipping boy for the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Sean Bielat was a candidate of no ties to the district and no accomplishments in the public sector, other than winning Pentagon contracts for iRobot where he once worked. If you took a vote inside the Beltway, Bielat would’ve won hands down, but he had no connection to the 4th district, while Frank had done an exceptional job bringing home the bacon to towns like Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton. And he remains enormously popular in the large liberal towns of Newton and Brookline.

Read more: http://electionwire.wbur.org/2010/11/03/massachusetts-election-analysis

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So proud of my adopted state, but some races were way too close for Blue Mass.

And as one Rethug loser (in all senses of the word) pointed out in his concession speech, Rethugs now finally have an infrastructure in Mass. Between that, a Rethug local media* and money (Citizens United), I am cautious about the future.


*Note this author saying of slimey Perry's loss, "Character trumps Ideology," as though Rethug ideology were a good thing. And local "objective" media could not conceal disappointment about our state last night, much as they definitely could not conceal glee when the Brown turd won.