Background: Scott Brown's road to the US Senate race ( Photos)

Boston.com ^ | 2010 | staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Scott Brown is the Republican candidate in the special election for the US Senate seat formerly held by the late Senator Edward Kennedy.

In the first of two photographic profiles on the major candidates' roads to the Senate race, we take a look at Brown, his background, and his family.

[freekitty]

No one has worked harder than Scott Brown. With his conservative credentials; he should be elected.

[Sparky1776]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL...that’s a Good One!

[harpu]

Here's what the DemonRATs are sending out to raise money...

I just got up to Martha Coakley's campaign HQ to help her win Tuesday's crucial special election. I have to tell you -- this isn't like anything Massachusetts has ever seen.

It's happening right after the holidays, so a lot of people haven't even heard about it. Meanwhile, the same guys behind the Swift Boat ads are taking over the airwaves to distort Martha's record, and the same far-right tea-party crowd that's attacking President Obama is funding her opponent.

The stakes in this race are incredibly high. If we don't hold this seat, a right-wing Republican will hold Sen. Ted Kennedy's old seat until at least 2012 -- and we'll lose a crucial vote in the Senate for health reform and the agenda we fought so hard for last year.

That's why we're going all out in Massachusetts with a massive effort to lock up a Democratic victory. But we can only afford to keep this battle up against the far right through Election Day if folks like you chip in.

Please donate $5 or more to help us make Martha Coakley the next senator from Massachusetts.

Democratic ads are highlighting the key differences between Martha, a long-time public servant and one of the nation's best attorneys general, and her extreme Republican opponent who would walk in lockstep with Mitch McConnell and national GOP power brokers.

And our organizers are engaging volunteers by the thousands to make sure Obama voters make it back to the polls.

But we need your help to keep it going. Please donate $5 or more to the Democratic Party to support our work, including our efforts to elect Martha Coakley:

Let's win this,

Hari

Hari Sevugan
Press Secretary
Democratic National Committee

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

one of the nation's best attorneys general,

She is nothing but a political hack and a Hag as well!

[Guenevere]

He looks like he was pulled from central casting....matinee idol looks!

[Ann Archy]

There’s what’s RIGHT, and then there’s what’s LEFT.....re: your tagline.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just came across this thread....:

Race is in a spinout

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From the Boston Globe:

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Martha Coakley made a jaw-dropping declaration earlier this week at the only live televised debate in Boston that she has deigned to do. She said, and I quote, “I’ve traveled the state and met tremendous people.’’

If she did, it was under the cover of darkness, with an assumed name.

Because if she had really traveled the state, if she had taken the time to meet voters, Coakley wouldn’t be in the position she finds herself in now, heading into the final weekend of this special election campaign in a perilously close race against a GOP state legislator nobody had heard of a mere six months ago.