Who will Brown align himself with in the Senate?

[cali]

This will be interesting to watch. My guess is he'll steer clear (politically) of Jim DeMint despite all the help DeMint gave him, and cozy up to the Maine twins and certain conservadems like Bayh, Webb (yes, Webb is a conservadem) and others.

He knows that he'll be up for a hell of a fight in under 3 years. He's got a tightrope to walk.

[still_one]

1. There is every reason to believe he will align with republicans /nt

[goldcanyonaz]

2. I agree. They will use this win as a referendum on the administration.

[still_one]

8. not just the administration, but the "so-called" Democratic controlled Congress /nt

[cali]

3. yes, but which republicans?

and he'll also go out of his way to cozy up to certain conservadems. He's representing MA, and he's got good political instincts.

[still_one]

6. It doesn't matter. Those Maine republicans would not vote for HCR. Look at the waste of time

snowe was. The only thing the republicans want to do is say no to ANYTHING the Democrats bring up.

It doesn't matter if the legislation if liberal or conservative, they just want the Democrats to lose

[Gargoyle22]

4. He may not eat dinner with Jim Demint, but he'll vote with him 95% of the time.

Stop kidding yourself. There's no such thing as a GOP mederate.

[cali]

5. Of course, he'll vote with him most of the time

and I agree that there aren't any moderate GOPers anymore. They went the way of Jim Jeffords and Linc Chafee. So I'm hardly fooling myself. I am saying that the guy has a tightrope to walk if he wants to be re-elected.

[still_one]

7. Did you ever think that Mass may not be as progressive as you thought it was? /nt

[Gargoyle22]

9. MA hasn't changed - she failed to nationalize the campaign until it was too late.

The propblem with this campaign is that it SHOULD HAVE been about Obama and HCR but Coakley chose to run on her record as AG.

[still_one]

10. If you believe the demographics, why would 20% of the Democrats vote for brown? /nt

[cali]

11. President Obama has positive ratings in MA

with the exception of Brown, the entire congressional delegation is made up of liberal dems. If Brown goes too far to the right he's toast.

[Hannah Bell]

12. the mussolini faction.

[Broke In Jersey]

13. he's seems pretty smart....

if thats true, then No One - he should be his own person. The only senator he thanked last night was John McCain.