Obama visits Mass to aid Martha Coakley in Coakley vs Brown battle

Obama visits Mass to aid Coakley in Coakley vs Brown battle. President Obama visited Massachusetts Sunday to get democrats to rally around Martha Coakley for the senate seat vote Tuesday. The seat was held by Ted Kennedy for several decades and many people assume that Martha Coakley would fill that seat, including Coakley herself.

Coakley didn’t aggressively campaign for the senate seat. In the meantime, running opponent Scott brown did aggressively campaign and has now overtaken Coakley in the polls for the senate seat. The two are almost dead even in the polls.

The Tuesday vote comes at a crucial time and if this seat is filled by Brown, then there is a strong possibility that the health care bill will not pass.

Obama said Sunday: "We know that on many of the major questions of our day, a lot of these measures are going to rest on one vote in the United States Senate," he said. "That's why the opponents of change and progress have been pouring money and resources in the commonwealth in hopes of promoting gridlock and failure," CNN reported.

Brown has already stated that he will vote against the efforts for the health care bill.

Ted Kennedy called the health care bill "the cause of my life."

Brown said: "I want to be the person to go down there and send the health care [bill] back to its drawing board, so they can do it better." "And when they're talking about raising your taxes and they're talking about raising the debt ceiling and they're talking about all those things, at least we can debate it in a transparent manner, not behind closed doors."

The vote in Massachusetts has national implications that could affect every American, and people across the nation are watching to see what happens.

In Utah, both Senator Bennett and Senator Hatch voted against the Health Care bill. Senator Bennett said that the overwhelming cost is the main reason for his no vote, and the dishonesty that has been involved in the cost. He said that the bill called for six years of benefits, and ten years of taxes and those numbers do not add up.

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