Kim Sinclair describes herself as an independent who often votes for Democrats and has never volunteered for a campaign. But yesterday at midday, she found herself standing in the bed of her black Chevrolet Silverado pickup in downtown Plymouth, an American flag flapping at her side, a Scott Brown cap on her head, waving a red-white-and-blue Scott Brown sign.
“We have to protect the United States of America,’’ Sinclair shouted as car horns beeped approval and a frigid rain fell. She explained that she was offended by Martha Coakley’s support for civilian trials for terrorism suspects and disenchanted by her support of health care reform. “Scott Brown would rather support the military than pay for all the lawyers of the Taliban,’’ she said.
Across Massachusetts, a surge of angry voters looking to upset the status quo flocked to the polls yesterday, despite rain and snow through much of the day, to cast ballots in an unprecedented mid-January special election to finish the term of the state’s longtime senator, Edward M. Kennedy, who died last August.
In scores of interviews at multiple polling places, Republicans, independents, and even some Democrats said frustration over health reform and anger with Congress had motivated them to vote for Brown, a Republican state senator whom few voters had heard of before this campaign.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/20/frustration_with_status_quo_fuels_emotions_big_turnout/
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