[thecavemaster]

This is anything but politics as usual. A Republican has not held a US Senate seat in the Bay State since 1953 and Brown won going away. Obama has sparked life back into the Republican Party.

As Bush II, and before him Gingrich, etc. etc. breathed life into the Democratic base. It is a BIG deal, no doubt about it. But I can't believe you would "blind eye" the past so as to skew the present.