Republican Scott Brown was elected to the Massachusetts Senate seat Jan. 19, beating out Democrat Martha Coakley 52 to 47 percent.

Brown won in an upset, claiming the seat formerly held by liberal giant Edward M. Kennedy in the nation’s most liberal state of Massachusetts. Due to Brown’s election into the Senate, the question now remains what will happen to President Barack Obama’s health care plan.

According to a poll completed by Rasmussen Reports, Obama’s approval rating is currently down by almost 20 percent since his inaguration in 2009.

With wavering opinions across the country about Obama, health care and the USA’s current economic situation, Brown’s election gives way to a political mood change in the USA.

According to an article written by Michael Cooper in The New York Times, Brown’s election has a lot to do with Obama and his administration.

“Beyond the bill, the election…also represented an unexpected reproach by many voters to President Obama after his first year in office, and struck fear into the hearts of Democratic lawmakers, who are already worried about their prospects in the midterm elections later this year,” Cooper wrote.

Another article written by Stephanie Condon for CBS News, said that voters in Massachusetts purposely voted for Brown to halt Obama’s health care plans.

“Yet according to exit poll data collected by a private Republican firm, Politico reports, 42 percent of Massachusetts voters said they voted to help stop the Democrats’ health care bill,” Condon wrote.

Once Brown takes office Feb. 11, Democrats will no longer control the votes in the Senate. Republicans have now reclaimed command, which gives them the opportunity to overthrow Obama’s bill. A bill which, according to Cooper’s New York Times article, “Brown has vowed to oppose.”