Coakley Loses — And So Does Obama
OPS_admin | Jan 20, 2010 | Comments 0
Dems need to recognize that they’ve mismanaged the health care debate, spent too little time focused on jobs and haven’t held Wall Street and the big banks to account.
John Nicols, The Nation -
Whoever scheduled the special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Edward Kennedy on January 19 did Barack Obama no favors.
The president did not need the tension of a too-close-for comfort electoral test on the day before the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.
Democrat Martha Coakley loss to Republican Scott Brown in Tuesday’s voting was a painful blow to the president.
One year into his presidency, he has been hit with the most painful of all measures of the success or failure of his presidency — the loss of the filibuster-proof majority he needed to pass health-care reform and the rest of his agenda.
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