State Sen. Scott Brown has pulled a Bay State bombshell by upsetting his Democratic rival to capture the open U.S. Senate seat by a 5-point margin.

Brown, 50, of Wrentham, will roll into Washington as the nation struggles with health-care reform. But Brown has vowed to be “the 41st Senator” that will defeat the measure.

Democrat Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, has gone down in a stunning defeat. Brown has won 52-47 percent, with 89 percent of the precincts reporting. Independent Joseph L. Kennedy finished way back with 1 precent of the vote.

Brown’s daughter, Ayla, is now belting out “Dancing in the streets” at the GOP winner’s celebration at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.

Brown swept to victory by getting out the vote in the suburbs where his support was strongest.

“I never thought I’d see the day when a Republican replaces Ted Kennedy,” Mayor Thomas M. Meninotold the Herald this evening. “I think Scott Brown caught the wave of anger that’s out there, and the wave of anti-Obama.”

Republicans were quick to cast Brown’s victory as the start of a revolution.

“There is a revolt going on in this country,” gushed GOP activist Bay Buchanan, a former top advisor to Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. “Massachusetts will just inpsire the patriot movement.”

Source: Boston Herold