Reply #7: Sorry but that is illogical. Mass. has the plan that is before Congress already.

[beachmom]

They already have it. I am going to put out there what really happened:

Angry white males showed up to vote. All other demographics showed up in lower numbers.

Angry white males always screw over everyone else, and the only way to stop them is for everyone else to show up.

The only time things changed was in 2008 when Barack Obama inspired an incredible swell of African Americans and other minorities plus young people out to vote. Normally, they don't turn out in those kinds of numbers.

How can Mass. voters be opposed to a health care bill which mirrors their own health care system? They are white males listening to sports and talk radio.

Coakley failed to inspire people out to vote. If Dems want to do well in '10 and beyond, it is their job to get THEIR people out to vote. And I don't mean base Democratic voters as much as I mean the broad Obama coalition built in 2008. That coalition could still have whipped Brown in this election. But they didn't vote either due to complacency, lack of enthusiasm for Coakley OR (the unthinkable), they didn't even know there was an important election.