Mass voters - Do Dems & Dem leaning Indies voting for Brown think he will act like a Mass Republican

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in the Senate?

Do they think he will act like state office holders (like Romney or Weld) who tend to be liberal Republicans - probably to the left of some ConservaDems? (Until, of course, they decide to run for national office)

Are they cognizant of the fact that he wont be like that because he will be working with the National Republican Party - a teammate of Inhofe, Coburn and Demint?

Just curious because I read the thread about how Massachusetts residents don't think that Massachusetts Republicans are all that bad and Brown has certainly tried to be a blank sheet on which both teabaggers and Democrats can assume he thinks like they do.

Just trying to understand the psychology of the 20% of Democrats and lots of Independents who must lean Democratic who are saying they'll vote for him.


edit to add - I googled and think that there hasn't been a Republican in the Massachusetts Congressional delegation since 1997. He'd be the ONE vote to block a bunch of stuff.

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1. No psychology--they feel Obama and the Dems have let them down

They're the reason why Jon Corzine is no longer Governor of New Jersey. In all honesty, I don't think MA will be a repeat, but it will be recount close.

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[still_one]

2. Corzine is no longer govenor because of Corzine, not Obama. If brown wins

it is because they feel the Dems in Mass let them down. This has to do with individual states

but hey, why not blame Obama, everyone else is

[rocktivity]

9. Posted 11PM Monday: "Brown is up 64-32 with independents

and is winning 20% of the vote from people who supported Barack Obama in 2008 while Coakley is getting just 4% of the McCain vote."

Hooray for me.

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3. If he wins and then votes to filibuster everything that, in general, the state wants, like

the jobs bill, financial regulations, etc., - well, I guess they'll love that.

It isn't like he would only help the Republicans to filibuster HCR. They want to stop everything. Do people think he is going to vote with the Dems - and be the only Republican - on a lot of these issues?

It is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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8. spot on....

I don't get why angry dems feel that by voting in a party of NO Republican it will some how help their agenda. It makes no sense, well pure anger never does.

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4. kick

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5. Romney wasn't and isn't a liberal Republican

A better example would be someone like Francis Sargent

Francis Sargent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_W._Sargent

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7. Whatever he was before he shifted further right for the Presidential campaign, he certainly

wouldn't have registered as very far RW compared to the current crazy-assed Republican Party. He had to flip-flop on a ton of stuff to try to meet the national Republican requirements.

[jpak]

6. Weld was an asshole - I expect Brown to be a bigger asshole

and rub our noses in it at every opportunity

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10. He campaigned as a moderate

And Coakley did nothing to dispute his claims until late in the game.

Repugs in MA (where I live) and RI (where I grew up) tend to be extremely moderate - they wouldn't be able to maintain a career here if they weren't.

So Brown claims to be a Repug in the vein of Chaffee and Weld, uninformed voters pissed off at the way things are going want to believe him, the Dems do nothing here to dispel the notion or court the base and this is where we find ourselves today.

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11. he campaigned as a moderate and she just didn't campaign.