Just about anybody that watched the Scott Brown victory has an opinion on why it happened.
If you're a Republican, it's a sign that the GOP now has a chance to compete with Democrats at all levels.
If you're somebody that wants to run for governor as an independent like Treasurer Tim Cahill, you're in the game. After all, he talked about representing independent thinking voters, and that's your deal.
And even the folks that want the president's health-care bill checked in with their own spin by saying voters were dissatisfied that it didn't go far enough, giving further definition to those known as Moonbats.
But realistically, the reason Scott Brown won was really pretty simple.
It's very much like the definition of luck.
The point at which opportunity meets preparedness.
Scott Brown was a hell of a candidate. But do you think Kerry Healey could have pulled this one off?
Brown was very likable, had a "power family" with a famous wife and daughter, and had the good fortune of squaring off against Martha Coakley. Nothing against Martha, but she isn't a retail politician.
Remember the JFK ad that Brown ran? It says here that Scott Brown was discovered by voters when he ran that ad. It's always smart to run ads that news networks will run over and over again for free because someone didn't like them. Up until then Scott was headed to another Republican defeat.
And then Christmas day and the "underwear bomber."
Being soft on terrorists is not something that will get you votes in Massachusetts.
The race tightened and still Coakley had a chance to stop his momentum in the last debate with a good performance but failed.
Brown dominated the debate with my favorite exchange being Coakley's assertion that the terrorists were gone from Afghanistan.
It was over then.
All the issues broke his way, and he was the perfect candidate to take advantage.
Good for him.
Now does this mean that voters aren't afraid of President Obama's health-care plan, sick of one-party arrogance and concerned with national security?
Oh they definitely are, and one needs only look at the vote from our town to see it.
In a 55 perecent turnout in Dracut, Brown received nearly 400 votes more than John McCain did in the last presidential election with 25 percent more people voting.
Coakley, on the other hand, received less than half the votes Obama did in Dracut.
So is Dracut going Republican?
It's far more likely that Dracut's conservative independents are taking control.
And finally, with the passing of Sen. Kennedy comes the end of "go-to-guy status" for former selectman Mike Blatus.
Blatus was for many years the closest pol in town to the Kennedys, and anyone needing to get the late senator's attention could call on him.
With Brown, who had many Dracut backers, the torch may have been passed to Blatus' former colleague, Don Morowski.
Morowski was a key volunteer in the Brown camp and may well be the next go-to guy in town.
Warren Shaw is a former Dracut selectman who hosts a popular Saturday morning radio show on WCAP-AM from 6 to 10.
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