Scott Brown’s victory last night in the special election for Ted Kennedy’s old senate seat hasn’t gone unnoticed on the other side of the Atlantic.
For France’s L’Express, correspondent Philippe Coste seems to share the conclusions of many American commentators:
This isn’t the moment to demean the word catastrophe, but the quite overwhelming victory of Republican Scott Brown for the office of Senator from Massachusetts is very, very bad news for the Democratic Party and Barack Obama.
Brown is also an especially excellent campaigner, and it does no harm to his ego that in 1982, he posed nude in Cosmopolitan Magazine as the sexiest man in America. He’s also a member of the National Guard – a patriot. A dream catalyst for a general revolt against the disgraced political class.
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