landscape shifts as brown eyes senate run

[xchrom]

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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2012, file photo, then-Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., uses a bull horn at a campaign stop in Watertown, Mass. Three years ago, Brown was a little-known Republican state senator from Massachusetts who shocked Democrats by winning a U.S. Senate seat. Now, having compiled a voting record more moderate than his tea party allies would have liked and losing his bid for a full term, Brown is considering whether to seize a second chance to return to the Senate in another special election. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

BOSTON (AP) -- Three years ago, Scott Brown was a little-known Republican state senator from Massachusetts who shocked Democrats by winning a U.S. Senate seat in a special election that became a national rallying cry for the nascent tea party movement.

Much has changed since then for Brown. In the Senate, he compiled a voting record more moderate than his one-time tea party allies would have liked. Just two months ago, voters said a resounding "no" to giving him a full term.

Now Brown is considering whether to seize a chance to return to the Senate - in yet another special election - to take the place of Democratic Sen. John Kerry if he is confirmed as secretary of state. Democrats will be more than ready for Brown this time if he does run.

"The atmosphere would be completely different," said the state Democratic Party chairman, John Walsh. He acknowledged making "unforgivable mistakes" by taking for granted the race in which Brown won the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's seat.

[graham4anything]

1. I think they are going to cede the seat, and Brown will run for Governor,but what the hell do I know

Brown is a loose cannon
He could run for senate now, lose, and still run for governor in 2014

whomever wins this one, will just have to run again anyhow in 2014

oh the problems of this all
gives me a conniption just thinking about it, especially after Rockerfeller said he was retiring and not running in 2014, making that democratic seat instantly republican

and who knows what is going on behind the scenes.

[PCIntern]

2. "Unforgivable" is exactly correct...

So of course, he's still the State Chairman. And I, as an idiot dentist four states away, saw it coming. He, as a seasoned professional, did not. And he still has the job.

Where can I get a job like that...?

"Oh, I wasn't supposed to extract all of your lower teeth? That's unforgivable. So come in next week and I'll start making your denture. And that will be $2675 please,including the extractions, of course." That would play well...NOT!

[blue_heron]

3. Smoking???

Are the republican advisors in mass smoking dope? They think the citizens who just overwhelmingly re-elected obama as their president want to 'slow him down'

That type of thinking is as delusional as believing the polls they thought Romney was winning until the last moments of election night. So hopefully that's a good thing for markey