For Obama, Massachusetts Equals Agenda Threat

From Business Week.

"With Republican Scott Brown’s victory in a special election to fill the Senate seat that had been long held by the late Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat, the president may have to scale back his second-year agenda, which includes overhauling immigration laws and financial regulations, analysts said.

Brown’s defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley is “a body blow to Obama and other Democrats,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “It’s a resounding message of rejection, disappointment and the loss of hope."