...of cutting through all the noise:
Decades from now, students of history unfamiliar with Harry Reid and Scott Brown will have no trouble grasping how a special election went badly for the party in power. All they will have to do is look at unemployment when Obama was elected and when Massachusetts went to the polls.
Between October 2008 and December 2009, the national rate rose to 10 percent from 6.6 percent. In Massachusetts, it went to 9.1 percent from 5.5 percent. Guess what? Nobody likes it, and voting against the Democratic candidate was an easy way to express that discontent.
The connection between political fortunes and material concerns is not exactly a revelation. A sour economy is what torpedoed Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992
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