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Life Without Teddy: Massachusetts Students Face Their First Republican Senator
By Kase Wickman - Politics DailyBOSTON -- 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 -- ...
Republican Brown Wins Massachusetts Senate Race
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 19) -- Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, has pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in recent memory, winning the special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate over Attorney General Martha Coakley. ...
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