New poll finds voter anger drove results of Mass. election

[Learning Nomad]

Dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, antipathy toward federal-government activism and opposition to the Democrats' health-care proposals drove the upset election of Republican senatorial candidate Scott Brown in Massachusetts, according to a post-election survey of state voters.
The poll by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University's School of Public Health underscores how significantly voter anger has turned toward Democrats in Washington and how dramatically the political landscape has shifted during President Obama's first year in office.

The findings do not provide a political portrait of the entire country in the opening weeks of the 2010 election year. But given that Massachusetts has been reliably Democratic in presidential elections, the results of Tuesday's special Senate election and the reasons voters sided with Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley speak to broader shifts that have taken place across the country over the past year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012203167.html?wpisrc=newsletter

We need to wake up and recognize that the country is laughing at the incompetence shown by the HCR debacle. But they are afraid that the POS HCR bill will pass when it's the worst of all worlds. Abandon the POS bill and start over.

[cali]

1. that poll indicates that people in MA are happy with their state's healthcare

plan. I'm not advocating passing the bill or not passing it, but can the delusional among you please try and get in touch with a modest bit of reality:

Once dead there is NO STARTING OVER. duh. duh. duh.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Anger is fine. Stupidity is a real problem. nt

[Bitwit1234]

3. I agree. No matter how mad I was with the inaction of this congress

I would never ever ever put a republican back in office. After all how stupid can you be. If we hadn't had eight years of republicans thru two stolen elections, we wouldn't be in this mess. But. Who says Americans have the smarts. Especially the ones from Massachusetts.

[CTyankee]

4. My guess is that the MA voters saw Coakley as a vote FOR the bill

and Brown AGAINST. Now, if you are disgusted with the HCR bill, with all its shenanigans, back room deals, handouts to the HC and pharm. companies then the last thing you would want is another Senator reliably in the FOR column. That makes some sense to me.

I will bet you that if they had a third choice: that of say, expansion of Medicare/Medicaid, they would have chosen it.