The victory by the GOP of the former Ted Kennedy Senate seat in the election just concluded will send commentators providing an analysis for days to come. The White House will surely have to sit up and take notice!
The Editor of The Nation in her Editors Cut has her say"
"Election results rarely have a single explanation.
Yet it's pretty clear that Scott Brown's special election win in a state that last sent a Republican to the Senate in 1978 is an indicator of the turbulent national political mood a year after Obama took office.
There is a generalized anti-establishment anger at loose in this country, reinforced by a White House team that has delivered for Wall Street but not enough for hurting communities. It is an anger also fueled by often savage right-wing anti-government attacks."
Read on here.
The Editor of The Nation in her Editors Cut has her say"
"Election results rarely have a single explanation.
Yet it's pretty clear that Scott Brown's special election win in a state that last sent a Republican to the Senate in 1978 is an indicator of the turbulent national political mood a year after Obama took office.
There is a generalized anti-establishment anger at loose in this country, reinforced by a White House team that has delivered for Wall Street but not enough for hurting communities. It is an anger also fueled by often savage right-wing anti-government attacks."
Read on here.
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