I predict he wilkl NOT buckle. If he does he can kiss re-election in 2012 goodbye and he KNOWS IT.
Peter, you can bet Scott is counting Mexicans as we speak.
It would seem that no matter how Brown votes on anything, he will still lose in 2012, much as Joseph Cao lost in New Orleans on November 2. Both were fluke, one-time only elections. Same with the two-year successor to Dan Rostenkowski in IL.