The Bay State will be the decider of the ObamaCare!

After the death of Senator Edward Kennedy in August of last year, few imagined there would be any problem replacing him with another Democrat in the U.S. Senate. Elected in a special election (by-election) in 1962 he went on to represent Massachusetts for 47 years.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who was elected attorney general in 2006, defeated several other candidates to win her party’s nomination in a December Primary. State Senator Scott Brown, who has served in the State Senate since 2004, won the GOP Primary the same day for the special election. The election, which will be held on Tuesday January 19, was seen as a formality. Up to a couple of weeks ago and during the Christmas Holidays, Coakley was sailing through in the polls while her Republican contender was barely getting by.

The residents of Massachusetts – the Bay State , who pride themselves as being freethinking intellectuals that don’t always conform to the norm, might deliver the biggest shock to the Democrats on Capitol Hill in this election. People all around the state have been unhappy with the extremes in the Party, mainly giving civilian legal rights to terror suspects, which Ms. Coakley supports and the proposed Federal tax hikes – but nothing excites them as Mr. Brown’s vow to stop ObamaCare (President Obama’s universal Health Care pet project) by denying the Democrats their much needed 60th vote in the Senate. In the final candidate debate, Brown has made it very clear that a vote for him is a vote to stop the national health care plan Democrats are pushing in Congress.

With Obama’s personal rating plummeting and polls state wide tightening to a wafer thin majority after the New Year, the Democratic leadership became concerned. By the middle of the first week this January Brown started to pull ahead of Coakley and now is in the lead. To turn around her fortunes she called on the head of her party – President Obama, for help. The president’s visit to the state was preceded by a visit from former President Clinton earlier in the week – signifying the seriousness with which national Democrats view the possibility of a Brown win. But the president’s visit will also magnify the national attention this special election has earned as a popularity gauge on Obama, the party leadership in Congress, and ObamaCare.

The late Senator Kennedy known as “The Lion of the Senate” – has championed many economic and social justice issues and over the course of his career continued his efforts to pass universal health care, which he called “ the cause of my life.” Who thought his death might also be the death of universal health care!