For Democrats, the Only Good News Is It's January, Not November

Filed under: Politics, Recession

A few points about the public policy impact of Tuesday's stunning Republican victory in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate election:

You'll hear a great deal of analysis arguing that health care reform, and the bank bail-out, convinced Independents to vote for Republican Scott Brown. To be sure, those two factors (in political science, they're called variables) played a role, as did Democratic candidate Martha Oakley's listless, clumsy campaign, but the biggest factor affecting vote was the Massachusetts' unemployment rate, which is high, as it is across the United States.

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