Dems’s the breaks: what do MA election results mean for 2010 elections?
Brown wins
With their surprising win last night, Republicans ended a 47 year control by Democrats of Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat and threw a major stumbling block in the Senate’s 60 vote majority needed to pass President Obama’s health care bill. How much can be read into last night’s results? Is it really a referendum on President Obama, health care reform and a foreshadowing of future 2010 losses for the Democrats? Patt breaks down the numbers.
Guests:
Jennifer Duffy, Senior Editor focusing on U.S. Senate & Governors for The Cook Political Report
David Wasserman, House editor for The Cook Political Report
- Patt Morrison for January 20, 2010
- Making sure history doesn’t repeat itself: Financial Crisis Committee’s search for answers
- Democrats lose MA Senate seat, where does it leave health care?
- Dems’s the breaks: what do MA election results mean for 2010 elections?
- Chris Farrell’s “New Frugality”
- Rain, wind and mud – and more rain, wind and mud
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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