US Senator Scott Brown, who only months ago was a little-known figure even within the tiny band of Republicans in the state Senate, not only catapulted to national stature with his upset US Senate victory, but is today the most popular officeholder in Massachusetts, according to a Boston Globe poll.
After less than five months in Washington, Brown outpolls such Democratic stalwarts as President Obama and US Senator John F. Kerry in popularity, the poll indicates. He gets high marks not only from Republicans, but even a plurality of Democrats views him favorably.
Heh. Excuse me for a moment while I laugh like a tickled hermit... Scott Brown is more popular than Lurch, "Cadillac" Deval, or Øbama... in Massachusetts. That's gotta be sending some shock waves through the political establishment right there. So far, it's way too early to tell if Brown's going to be able to hang onto the seat he wrestled away from Marcia Coakley when he comes up for re-election in 2012. For now, Scott's ridin' high and has got to be enjoying all the stir he's causing.
Two years is several political lifetimes, especially in the "take-no-prisoners" venue of Massachusetts politics. Time will tell if Brown's election was a simply fluke, a once-in-a-lifetime freak occurrence that won't be repeated or if it was real, honest voter discontent with the Democratic party - in Massachusetts. This upcoming election will be a watershed, that's for certain, in that a sweeping political realignment might frighten the (D)s enough to stop their slide, or they could take a page from the Republicans playbook and think they need to move even further left...
In any case, it's going to be a long, bumpy, and fascinating ride.
That is all.
5 comments:
So who's running all the negative commercials targeting him on the Red Sox games?
I don't know bro. From out here in my neck of the woods (near Breda), he looks like a RINO to me. Not really happy with his voting record so far, know what I mean? And yes, the Navy sent me to live in Taxachusetts for awhile in the 70's, so I know what you have to put up with. Sure you can't get a place across the border in NH and commute? Take care, Bubblehead Les.
He's a Northeastern Republican, Les. Out in your neck of the woods he'd probably be a Democrat, and not an especially conservative one either.
Of course he's a RINO. He's in MASS, so that's expected. A Georgia Democrat is going to look a lot like a Republican (Zell Miller) or else they're going to be kicked to the curb if they act like a liberal Dem (Max Cleland).
No problem with RINO's in the northeast, that's about as good as you're going to get.
'cept for Chris Christie, it appears. :)
Brown is a RINO by Red State standards.
He's light years to the right of Genghis Khan by Masshole standards.
When you're starving to death in a lifeboat and the Egyptian Navy comes by, don't bitch if all they offer you is hummus. 'Cause "bacon" just ain't on the menu at all.
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