“The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.”

Tonight on Fox News Britt Hume said “They would have us believe that the people of Massachusetts are still so angry at the Bush Administration that they elected a Republican to the Senate for the first time in decades.”

Gretta VanSustrand on Fox News last night said that Croakley was running well ahead of Brown until the special deals cut for the health care bill became known. The other big thing that happened was the UndieBomber. It would be interesting if you could correlate poll numbers with these events.

Note that the State of The Union speech was delayed and was uncertain until recently. I don’t recall this ever happening before, and I would suspect the driver was the same series of events, each of which required a different approach in order to to maintain the mythology. And that’s just the stuff we know about.