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This whole "grand message" thing regarding the whole MA election is silly. The idea that MA elected a pro-choice moderate who supports gay rights and a version of public healthcare that is more progressive than the one in the senate right now to "make sure the country stayed in the center" is nonsense. First because the idea that Obama represents the left of the democratic party is false. Second because the distance between the current democratic proposals and Brown's position is relatively small. Lieberman, Bayh, Lincoln and Landrieu are bigger problems for Obama than Brown is. And third because it ignores the main reason he won by 5 points: he was a likable, somewhat independent person running against someone who didn't campaign and who made a habit of saying foolish things.
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