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Maybe I'm missing something, but I think there are only three explanations for Scott Brown's Tuesday victory over Martha Coakley.
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Given:

  • Massachusetts' bipartisan health care reform a few years ago is the model for what Obama and the Democrats have been on the verge of passing in Washington.

  • Scott Brown supported the bipartisan Massachusetts health care reform (which has given the state near-universal coverage)

  • Scott Brown opposes the Democrats' health care reform in Washington, and told voters he'd be the 41st vote to stop it.

  • Massachusetts voters, who overwhelmingly support the Massachusetts health care reform, have sent Scott Brown to Washington to stop Washington from enacting at a national level the popular plan Massachusetts enacted a few years ago.

    • Which of the following explains Scott Brown's victory over Martha Coakley? (Maybe I'm missing something, but I think these are the only three options):

    1) Scott Brown is a disingenuous idiot.

    2) Massachusetts voters are confused idiots.

    3) I'm an idiot, for expecting logic or reason to play any role in American political life at all.

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