Excuse me, wasn’t Mass a D+25 state when Brown was elected?
It was. And that’s not the point.
Brown is trying to appeal to the Democrats when he will never win them.
Massachusetts is a Democrat state. But it has more independents than Democrats. That’s how Brown won. He ran as a socially moderate/fiscally conservative Republicans. That’s the only way to win in Mass as a Repub.
But this time around, he has not criticized Obama or the Democrats spending. Instead he’s running to work with Obama and Harry Reid. The Mass Indies do not approve of the out of control spending.
The only closing argument Brown can make is if he piviots to that of a fiscal hawk, like in 2010. Otherwise he will lose by 10 points.