Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat

With the passing of senator Ted Kennedy, there is an open seat in the senate that the democrats need to keep their filibuster-proof majority. It remains to be seen whether or not the democrats will follow the Massachusetts law they pushed through regarding vacant senate seats. Back when there was a republican governor in Massachusetts, the democrats pushed a law through that says a special election must be held for a vacant seat and the governor is not allowed to appoint a replacement. They did this specifically to prevent a republican appointee from filling the seat. Now that there is a democratic governor and their 60-seat majority is crucial to keeping their stranglehold during times when their popularity is waning, I expect they will try to change or break the law to suit themselves once more. They want the governor to appoint a democrat to the seat. They do not want a special election because they would probably lose, thanks to the growing number of Americans who are waking up to realize that the democrats are not working for them.