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Life Without Teddy: Massachusetts Students Face Their First Republican Senator

BOSTON -- The last time a Republican was elected to fill a Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama was still Barry. It was 1972 when Ed Brooke was re-elected, and the future 44th president of the United States was just 11 years old. Ted Kennedy, of course, had already been a senator for a decade when Brooke was elected. Kennedy's nearly five-decade reign makes it easy to believe that there has never been life without the so-called Lion of the Senate representing Massachusetts. The months since Kennedy's August death excepted, for a staggering 59.8 percent of Massachusettians -- ...

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