Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC-10) released the following statement on the results of tonight’s Massachusetts special election:

“If you’d told me a month ago that a Republican running against President Obama’s health care plan would win Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat, I’d have said you were crazy.

“If the Obama health care bill has sparked such a massive backlash in Massachusetts, I can’t imagine what Democrats in red and purple districts are hearing back home.  Democrats should take the hint and stop pushing their unpopular plan on the American people.”


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