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If the Massachusetts legislature is Democratic than they can could
repeal the bill they passed in 2009 (to allow for a temporary successor to the Senate to be named by governor) and put back the one that allowed for a governor to appoint a successor (that was pulled in 2004, under Mitt, when Kerry ran for President).
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/24/massachusetts-legislature/massachusetts-legislature-flip-flops-governors-sen/
