A National Revolution?

On this Worldview Wednesday (sponsored by World Magazine) edition of the program, we will discuss the stunning upset in the Massachusetts US Senate race of Democrate Martha Coakley by Republican Scott Brown. Writing in the Web Extra section of World Magazines website, reporter Emily Belz covered the election-night results... "BOSTON-Republican Scott Brown, a Massachusetts state senator who almost no one had heard of three weeks ago, won the bitter contest for the U.S. Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy in Massachusetts, the first Republican elected to one of the state's Senate seats since 1972.

Networks held off calling what many thought would be a closer race, but at 9:05 p.m., with over half the state's precincts counted and Brown leading Democrat Martha Coakley 53 percent to 46 percent, pollster Steve Lombardo declared on Pollster.com, "This is beyond over." Tufts University political scientist Richard Eichenberg concluded, "No runoff . . . one winner." At 9:18 p.m., The Boston Globe reported that Coakley, the state's attorney general, had called Brown to concede."

On today's program we will discuss the national implications of this vote.

On the first half of the program, I will speak with Dr. Oran P. Smith, President and CEO of the Palmetto Family Council (www.palmettofamily.org) in Columbia SC. I will speak with Oran about some of the ramifications of the Obama healthcare bill. Specifically, it's impact on Marriage. Oran has recently written an Op-Ed article for The State Newspaper entitled, "A New Decade of Marriage".

For the second half of the program, I will be joined by Ken Blackwell - Senior Fellow at Family Endowment at the Family Research Cou