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Brown seems to be pretty astute.
As much as I hate the loss, he worked his ass off for the win and Coakley apparently though she was just going to waltz into the seat.
She deserved the loss as much as he deserved the win.
you raise a point that i think is being lost; he won the election through hard work. it's not like we all woke up here one morning and decided not to vote for coakley. brown ran a very effective old fashioned get out and shake hands campaign in what until about two weeks ago was widely seen as a lost cause. he had very little money and the state repub committee is a joke. only when it looked like he might only lose by a little did the national $$ and attention start coming.
he went into it knowing that he was a sacrificial lamb and still worked his ass off. i only hope that he remembers how he got there and keeps it up.
time will tell.
I agree with you. In the end, both candidates got what they deserved. If Brown suddenly becomes a wingnut teabagger, he will be tossed in the next general election (not sure when that is).
Like the Blue Dog Democrats, Brown doesn't exactly fit the GOP "conservative" mold.
he will stand for reelection in 2012 which is enough time to see if he'll follow through on what he's campaigned on. he's a good example of a mass republican- fiscally conservative, but not so much socially. there used to be a fair amount of repubs like that around here, but the state GOP has atrophied to the point that nobody bothers to enroll anymore.
more than anything, i hope this signals a resurgence in the two party system in mass. i don't even care which two parties, just as long as one party doesn't have a stranglehold on all the levers of power. it's not healthy.