Behold the power of Red Sox fans:
Republican Scott Brown wins Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat.
That Ted Kennedy.
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I do, however, want to defend his defeated opponent, Ms. Coakley, on one matter: the fact that she misspelled the word "Massachusetts." Look. As someone who has long, long wished that my parents had hopped the border over to the very nice and considerably easier to spell great state of New Hampshire (hi, New Hampshire!) let me assure you: Massachusetts is a very difficult name to spell. Just in writing this post I had to look it up again, and this is a word that I have to enter into documents all the time. (Expectant parents, take my word for it - if you have the option, dive bomb over to New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, New York - not Connecticut because that one's tricky too.) I admit that it's probably just me, but I genuinely think we can give her a break on this one.
That Ted Kennedy.
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I do, however, want to defend his defeated opponent, Ms. Coakley, on one matter: the fact that she misspelled the word "Massachusetts." Look. As someone who has long, long wished that my parents had hopped the border over to the very nice and considerably easier to spell great state of New Hampshire (hi, New Hampshire!) let me assure you: Massachusetts is a very difficult name to spell. Just in writing this post I had to look it up again, and this is a word that I have to enter into documents all the time. (Expectant parents, take my word for it - if you have the option, dive bomb over to New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, New York - not Connecticut because that one's tricky too.) I admit that it's probably just me, but I genuinely think we can give her a break on this one.