Could the GOP Win Kennedys Senate Seat?
In Massachusetts, where Democrats almost always win elections, voters could be planning a big upset in the special race to fill Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat. Kennedy was an icon from the most revered family in the Democratic Party’s history. When he died last August, party leaders and nearly everyone else assumed a Democrat would win his Senate seat. However, just a week before election day, Scott Brown, a Republican, has moved to a dead heat in the latest polls with his Democratic rival Martha Coakley. Brown has moved up by partly claiming the mantle of John F. Kennedy. “The billions of dollars this bill will place in the hands of the consumer and our businessmen will have immediate benefits to our economy. Every dollar that it released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and new salaries,” President Kennedy said in a 1962 speech. In a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, a Brown victory would be a political asteroi
