Brown isn’t necessarily toast in ‘12, as apparently he still has a high approval rating. Patrick couldn’t even get a clean 50% of the vote (and for all the Baker diehards complaining about Cahill, even if all Cahill votes went to Baker, he’d still have lost). Baker was a dreadful candidate, and his running mate even worse. Be grateful that bullet was dodged. Patrick might yet save Brown for ‘12.
I'm surprised Cahill got 8%. I figure he'd get 3-4% tops. It does go to show how piss poor all the 3 major candidates were.