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The US Democratic Party is bewildered and spooked. One year after Barack Obama’s inauguration, a political asteroid struck yesterday, imperilling the road ahead for the President’s agenda, including his cherished healthcare reforms.

A bit blue: President Obama boarding Air Force One after a fruitless campaign visit to Boston this week.

That Obama’s party could lose a Senate race in the liberal-left bastion of Massachusetts is proof that political hell has officially frozen over.

Republicans last held the seat in 1972. But to lose in a special election triggered by the death of Ted Kennedy?

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  • Dan says:

    09:08pm | 24/01/10

    My support for Obama has already been vindicated. That aside, there is a difference. Nobody are pro-abortion. We just don’t want the government telling us what to do with our bodies or with the bodies of our wives and partners. Read more »

  • Julian Thomas says:

    03:11pm | 24/01/10

    Toddzilla, if you loved Howard, you should be pro Obama, as Howard was huge on middle class welfare Read more »

 

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