It is likely that David Cameron regards this week’s stunning Republican victory in Massachusetts with a mixture of excitement and terror.
It is likely that David Cameron regards this week’s stunning Republican victory in Massachusetts with a mixture of excitement and terror. It marks an incredible conservative comeback. For the Republicans to take the seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward Kennedy is impressive; that their candidate, Scott Brown, was only strengthened by the Democrat’s vicious attack ads — the very type that Labour has in mind for Mr Cameron — is extraordinary. Massachusetts was once seen as the most dependably Democratic state in the union; now the left has turned on its own.
The new Congressman did not try to say ‘my party has changed’ to the voters of Massachusetts. Instead, he presented them with a little raw conservatism to see if it appealed.
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