Take one Senate Chamber filled with Washington Democrats eager to hold onto their majority. Add a handful of unabashed Republicans gunning for the political forefront. Now sprinkle in a passel of voters whose brush with economic recession has left many with a virulent disposition toward both parties. The result? A truculent race for Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat and a spinous climb to the top of Capitol Hill.
Scott Brown’s Massachusetts victory in mid-January caused a major upset for Democrats who not only lost the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s seat to Republicans but also the 60 votes needed to prevent GOP filibusters. Democrat Evan Bayh’s bye-bye to Congress after twelve years in the Senate certainly didn’t alleviate the febrile atmosphere that seemingly whelmed the Democratic Party overnight.
But Alexi Giannoulias, the Democratic candidate favored to win Obama’s former senate seat in November, is taking it all in stride, criticizing Republican [...]
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