Scott Brown The Republican Senator-elect handed President Obama the first defeat of his presidency. After trailing by double digits a little more than a week ago, yesterday Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. No Republican had won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972. Brown, a 50-year-old state senator, campaigned as the pickup truck-driving candidate, capitalizing on voter frustrations and vowing to send Obama's health care bill "back to its drawing board." The GOP win in Tuesday's special election means that Democrats have lost their 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, jeopardizing much of Obama's agenda, including health care reform. "He's branded himself brilliantly. He has run as the people's senator," said Jennifer Donahue, a political analyst and contributor to The Huffington Post. Brown, a lieutenant colonial in the Massachusetts National Guard, is well-prepared for life in Washington. As a 22-year-old law student at Boston College, he won Cosmopolitan magazine's "America's Sexiest Man" contest, appearing nude in the June 1982 issue. A Cosmo Web columnist wrote, "Compared to some men in the GOP, this politician looks pretty **** good for his age." A Washington Post headline dubbed Brown "Sen. Beefcake."<div class="feedflare">
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