Well many people on this thread are less than enthusiastic. Hey we need 6 to dethrone Reid, add Brown to Rounds and hopefully Capito and we are halfway there. Capito does not enthuse me and Brown even less so but they are the best options in their respective states at this time.
If anyone would really rather have a Kennedy in there, whatever I won’t argue, I can’t say that Brown is a conservative.
The turnout is key, POTUS turnout, forget it I guess. He won in low special election turnout.
I believe he can win again and win a full term in the 2014 midterm election. Several Senators have served and then lost and came back and lost again. Chapman Revercomb of WV comes to mind.
They may try to change the law so an appointed Senator can serve till the 2014 election.
Either way it is likely Deval will not appoint another placeholder and Brown would be facing an incumbent appointed Senator, possibly Deval himself.
“If anyone would really rather have a Kennedy in there, whatever I won’t argue, I can’t say that Brown is a conservative.”
He’s not. I suspect if he runs for anything again, he’ll run as an IND. I’ve said that before.
The thing is, just when you forget the clustrf*cks he’s voted for in the past, he lobs a new one out there with this assault weapons ban garbage. It’s REALLY hard to support a “Republican” when they mimic RAT talking points. Case in point on a personal level: In 2010 I donated time and money to his campaign. Last month, I voted; no extra efforts given. He really has supported some truly asshat legislation.
“The turnout is key, POTUS turnout, forget it I guess. He won in low special election turnout.”
Yes, the 2010 special election had ~600,000 less voters than last months POTUS election, IIRC.
The RATS have not lost a statewide race in MA since Brown’s win in 2010.