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“In Stunning Upset, Brown Captures US Senate in Mass.”
“Scott Brown Roars to Senate Upset Win”
“G.O.P. Senate Victory Stuns Democrats”
Now that Scott Brown has been sworn in as the junior Senator from Massachusetts, I decided to revisit this story within the context of healthcare reform. As I re-read these headlines on Brown’s “upsetting” win over Attorney General Martha Coakley for the U.S. Senate seat a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but wonder — “should we really have been that surprised?” In retrospect, let’s take a look at the evolution of the public sentiment specific to healthcare reform (stats courtesy of Gallup polling):
