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To: deeno who wrote (240177)	3/5/2010 10:24:44 PM
From: Jim Fleming	Respond to of 306849

Deeno re Masss senate election Ask any independent in MA about the reason for the election upset. Apart from a terrible Coakley campaign in which she chose to sit on the sidelines, the Mass election was due to dissatisfaction with the squabbling in DC. We already have a universal health system in MA. The Globe ran an editorial that pointed out, accurately, that if the voters had looked at Brown's voting record he would never have been elected. I think MA voters represent a national dissatisfaction that will hurt Republicans as much as Democrats. I don't have as much public exposure as years ago but I live in an over 55 housing complex whose inhabitants are mostly from upper middle class conservative backgrounds backgrounds many of whom voted for Obama as the first Democrat in their lives.Many of them voted for Brown not on the health bill but on his being a reasonably attractive Republican. My brother, who is knowledgeable about local Democratic politics says that he spoke to many independent voters in the New Bedford, MA area and not one mentioned health as a factor in their vote. My sampling revealed the same here. Brown supported Romney's universal healthcare bill and outside of the fact that it needs to be made less expensive by stepping on the throats of the insurance industry, nobody of any consequence, wants to repeal it. Jim Fleming Jim