The attorney general of Massachusetts Martha Coakley has won the primary for Democrats on Tuesday. The senate seat remained vacant when the senator Edward Kennedy died of cancer in August this year.
The victory is crucial for the Democrats who are struggling to maintain the number of sixty seats of their party in the senate. The victory of the Democrats is also crucial in the sense that the Obama Government is trying to legislate the bill on the health care reforms with the majority of 60 seats out of total 100 seats in the senate. The January 19 elections will be between Coakley and Scott Brown who is a Republican State Legislator. The vacated seat has a historic value because it was taken over by Edward Kennedy from his Brother John F Kennedy.
It is speculated that Coakley has the greater chances to win the elections to fill Kennedy’s seat for the rest of Kennedy’s tenure which will end in 2012. The senate has been a no-go area for Republicans of New England State for last forty years. However they elected Republican governors many times in last two decades. Jeffrey Berry who is a professor of political science at Tufts University gave his expert opinion that the picture is quite clear who will win the election in January. He said, “We have to vote in January, but the outcome is preordained. “Coakley will win.” Coakley paid homage to Kennedy brothers who were assassinated and Ted Kennedy while delivering an acceptance speech and told that their efforts to bring change in the government and politics in Massachusetts as well as in the whole country are remarkable.
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