Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week, you are probably aware there's an unexpectedly hot US Senate race brewing in Massachusetts right now. Election day is this Tuesday.

What everyone (and I mean everyone) thought would be a Democrat blow-out to retain Ted Kennedy's seat has suddenly turned out to be a tight race. Truly shocking news when one considers that Massachusetts is probably the bluest of blue states in the union.

Just a week ago, the Boston Globe was telling us Democrat candidate Martha Coakley had a 17 point lead over Republican Scott Brown. But a string of recent polls have indicated support for Coakley was dwindling quickly and Brown was making major progress. Today, PJM/Cross Target reports their polling give the Republican candidate a 15 point lead. If that's even close to being accurate, the Democratic Party is in big, big trouble.

There are multiple reasons for this turn of events. Martha Coakley has turned out to be a lousy candidate. She's one of those liberal elites who's just stupid enough to tell people what she actually believes. The most recent example: Coakley told a radio host that if you're a Catholic, you probably should not be working in hospital emergency rooms since those workers must provide emergency contraception whether they're morally opposed or not. There should be no conscience clause for nurses, doctors, or other medical professionals working in America's emergency rooms. After all, there IS a "separation of church and state," ya know. She actually said that.

This follows that "incident" earlier in the week (see previous posting) of having one of her thugs smack around a reporter. And that was preceded by an abysmal performance in a televised debate in which she claimed, among other things, that all terrorists were out of Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Republican candidate Scott Brown seems to have not only hit his stride but has tapped into a very popular promise: To be the 41st vote to kill ObamaCare. If the polls are accurate, perhaps there are enough Massachusetts residents who realize government control over their health care isn't a good idea. They've gotten a big taste of it through RomneyCare - Massachusetts' state version of government health care passed into law and signed by then-governor Mitt Romney. The state program is way over budget and improvements in coverage and quality of care have failed to materialize. Maybe, just maybe the citizenry of Massachusetts realizes ObamaCare is RomneyCare on steroids and will only make an already bad situation worse.

There remains a little voice in the back of my head telling me to not get my hopes up too high with Tuesday's election. Massachusetts is still a Democrat-dominated state and the Left will move heaven and earth to retain Teddy Kennedy's seat. Dirty tricks by the Left will likely abound over the weekend and The Boston Globe or some other leftist media outlet will make news with "newly discovered evidence/allegations" that Scott Brown is the sleaziest person to ever walk the earth. The Left will stop at nothing so be mentally prepared for some false but sensational allegations to hit the fan between now and Tuesday.

Regardless the outcome, the very fact that this is even considered a close race tells us everything we need to know about the mood of the American electorate. This follows major Republican victories in governors races in New Jersey and Virginia last November. All of this gives us a glimpse of the coming Armageddon the Democrats running Congress will face this November. And maybe, just maybe some Democrats in Congress will wake up and choose self-preservation over political suicide and finally kill ObamaCare themselves.

Well, one can always dream.

DCuz