“Full disclosure: I’m not a Massachusettes Massachusetts resident. I live in California, which is slightly to the right of MA. :) But I AM watching this with great interest, as the implications for the nation as a whole are huge.”
If the Ted Kennedy Senate seat can be won, so can the Barbara Boxer seat be won.
She is an Obama socialist, and the backlash is against precisely that.
Obviously Brown has been effective in vocalizing that; it will take somebody every bit as strong in California.
(And in the CA GOP those are few and far between)