The Boston Globe posted on its website that Coakley won the election. Oops.

As it turned out, Scott Brown won the election, garnering about 52% of the vote, not a landslide, but impressive, considering that Ted Kennedy got 69% in 2006, the last time he ran — a turnaround of 22% from D to R. Roger Simon points out that Barack Obama took Massachusetts in 2008 by 27 points, which would be a swing of 32 points in barely more than a year.

Brown won with a margin greater than Ronald Reagan’s in 1984 (2.8%). Turnout was higher than in the 2006 regular election. It’s hard to know exactly how big a deal the election of Scott Brown is, but even Barney Frank thinks it means that Obamacare in its current form is dead.

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