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Good evening Ms. Schlussel – I have not written to you in a long time, but still follow your blog closely. You posted a letter I wrote to you right after the election of Obama. I was despondent. I believe I said something like for the first time I feel that I don’t know my country anymore. Tonight, with the win of Scott Brown, my faith in America has been somewhat restored, and I feel an optimism that I have not felt in over a year. We can do this. We can get our country back on track. All is...

My radio station in Boston has been non-stop on the Brown/Coakley race for weeks. Three of our hosts are pro-Brown, two pro-Coakley. We were broadcasting from our own victory rally tonight in Braintree, MA at the very moment Scott Brown got the concession call from Coakley. He joined us on the air almost immediate to share the good news. The crowd of several hundred, packed into a room designed for half their number, exploded. Having not been in Boston when they broke the Curse, I can only speculate, but it must have been a similar moment. The crowd wouldn't let...

know the night is young, but I'm getting a lot of e-mails whose tone is less that of a Senate election night and more like Eastern Europe's "velvet revolutions" 20 years ago. Example: I'm a long time resident of Massachusetts and specifically the Back Bay. In other words, the heart of darkness for a conservative... I don't think the majority understand the magnitude of what is happening. Despite the elegant and politically deadly comeback by Brown during the debate, this is indeed the Kennedy seat we are talking about. Many people my age, and I am older than I care...