The few Republicans I know that voted for Brown have said that it made no difference and they may as well have voted for Coakley.
Brown won because he was different. He will lose by becoming what he claimed to be running against.
Brown won for one reason and one reason only - - he promised to be the one vote needed to put the brakes on Ubama's Mengelecare. Conservatives took that one promise and proceeded to create in their minds a genuine tea party candidate, and some even used the phrase, "presidential timber". They enthusiastically voted for Brown in droves. Brown has shown since his election that he never was that mythical Massachusetts conservative in the first place and no longer had any use for the tea party movement. No, Brown is more interested in pleasing the Boston Globe. So now it's, "Buh-bye, Brown." Good luck getting enough Massachusetts rats to make up for the tea party base you threw under the bus. ..You scumbag.