From dailybreeze.com:

– A state senator’s victory in the Republican primary for the special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat gives the Massachusetts GOP something it’s sorely missed: a place in the political spotlight.

Since Mitt Romney left the Statehouse to pursue his 2008 presidential campaign and his one-time running mate Kerry Healey failed to hold the governor’s office after 16-years of GOP control, the Massachusetts Republican Party has further atrophied.

Now its most immediate hope for revival in one of the nation’s bluest Democratic states State Sen. Scott Brown, one of just five Republicans in the state Senate. He won Tuesday’s Republican primary and will go head-to-head in the Jan. 19 special election with the winner of the four-way Democratic race, Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Brown and his team are relishing the opportunity.

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