It was health care that nationalized the special election for what we now know is the people’s Senate seat. But it was national security that put real distance between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. “People talk about the potency of the health-care issue,” Brown’s top strategist, Eric Fehrnstrom, told National Review’s Robert Costa, “but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants.”
Our guests will be Mackenzie Eaglen, Research Fellow for National Security at The Heritage Foundation, and James S. Robbins is Senior Editorial Writer for Foreign Affairs at the Washington Times, author of the book, "Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Listen to Midrats
No comments:
Post a Comment