I respectfully disagree. I don't think people around here are all fired up against Brown . . . what we're seeing here is the lefty push that's causing the wind beneath Granny Warren's sails, and yes, I know that "Granny Warren's sails" bring to mind an awful visual and I apologize for that. Most of this broad's bread is coming from out of state.
I also think Obama is going to kick ass here, but not to the degree he did in '08. He might have coat tails, but they will be much shorter everywhere, even here in the People's Commonwealth.
Brown's people will ridicule Warren, hoist her up on her own numerous petards, etc. The suburbs will skew heavily for Brown, the Happy Valley and urban areas will skew Warren, but I don't believe big enough (outside of fraud) to overcome the burbs.
This election is going to be a major test of Massachusetts "independents" who always claim they vote the person, not the party. One one hand you have a dude like Brown who you might differ with politically, but at least he's a straight shooter who tries to do good where he can. On the other hand you have a self-aggrandizing weirdo who tells one lie after another, INCLUDING lying about her ancestry in order to get a race-preferential job. If this isn't a person over party test, I don't know what is, and the choice is clear: Brown.
And which suburbs would those be? Brookline? Newton? Belmont? Cambridge? Arlington? Lexington? Waltham? Wellesley? Needham? Dedham? Quincy?
He may carry Shrewsbury and Bellingham,for example,but I assume you know that more than half the state's population is contained within 128 and we both know what *that's* all about.
The basic difference between Coakley and Warren is that Warren's a better candidate (meaning more effective) and the coattails.
Obamacare got Brown elected and Obamacare will get rown re-elected!