Boston Globe
February 5, 2010
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Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, FAS
Abstract
After spending a week in India, I was surprised to return to the news that true blue Massachusetts had acquired its first Republican senator since Edward Brooke. I should have been less shocked. It was a mistake to think that President Obama’s sweeping victory was a sign that America had moved significantly to the left. America remains remarkably conservative by world standards, and Senator Scott Brown is just the latest manifestation of that fact.
Citation
Glaeser, Edward L. "Success of the Left in Europe, the Right in US." Boston Globe, February 5, 2010.