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Will it keep the people of Massachusetts from coming out of their comfortable bubbles to vote? We are talking about a vote that will be so close that Harry Reid will keep his thin lips from moving until the official tally. Smart move Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Moving on, what has this election been about? Health Care and one-party government. The People of Massachusetts already have universal health care, which, was pioneered by infamous Senator Ted Kennedy and Republican Governor Mitt Romney, thus, the main question: should we have a national 'universal' health care? Both candidates, Democrat Martha Coakley and State Senator Scott Brown, believes that the issues should be debated. State Senator Scott Brown does believe in universal health care, but does not want a national one. Democrat Martha Coakley does believe in universal health care albeit as well as in a national health care that is being debated in Congress now.

From a personal experience, the expansion of health care in Massachusetts is not necessary. The month before the end of my internship at New York State Assembly, I cracked my thumb playing basketball. I went to the hospital and got an extremely large bill. Two weeks later, I moved out to Acton, Massachusetts with my parents. I needed to do a followup examination and went to a hospital about twenty miles from where my parents lived. I told the hospital that I had no insurance. All I needed to do was fill out some paperwork and the state of Massachusetts would take care of it. After coming back three times for followup checkups, still to this day, I have not gotten a single bill.

Now, about the one-party government. More than one party system is more preferable. However, there is one exception: one-party government can work if, this is a big if, it is balance. By balance, if Congress is fully Democratic, then the governor seat need to have a Republican and vice versa. However, if Democrat Martha Coakley wins, there will be no balance. The State of Massachusetts already has a unpopular and very liberal Governor Deval Patrick along with Congress that is fully Democratic. That my friend, is crossing into a very dangerous minefield.

That balance has usually meant a GOP governor; four of the last five Massachusetts governors have been Republicans.  At the same time, the rest of the state government, as well as the state's delegations in the House and Senate, have been dominated by Democrats.  But even with that lopsided situation, the presence of a GOP governor gave voters a certain sense of balance.

Now, even that is gone.  Not only are all other significant state offices occupied by Democrats, the governorship is in the hands of the very Democratic, very liberal, and very unpopular Deval Patrick.  There is not even a token of Republican leadership to be found.  And for the independent voters who will play a critical role in Tuesday's election, Massachusetts' one-party rule mirrors the one-party rule in today's Washington, where national Democrats are deciding important issues among themselves without even the pretense of including Republicans. ~The Examiner.