GOP win leaves Democrats shaken in Massachusetts

Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset on Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts.

Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, who had been considered a favourite to win just over a month ago after she easily won the Democratic primary. With all precincts counted, Brown had 52 per cent of the vote to Coakley’s 47 per cent.

“Tonight the independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken,” Brown told his supporters, standing in front of a backdrop that said “The People’s Seat”.

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