Kudos Sen. Scott Brown

State Senator Scott Brown pulled off the impossible tonight, defeating the Boston Democrat machine and its candidate for the United States Senate. 

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Yours truly was not among the optimists, but rarely has it felt so good to be wrong on a political prognostication.

Of course, the Democrats will invariably try to tamp down expectations, but it is difficult to perceive the win as anything other than a seismic, political shift, nearly one year from the day on which President Obama took office.