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This marks a new low for the 'Chosen One'

WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden is entering the fray in the Massachusetts Senate race. He sent an e-mail to Obama supporters assailing Republican Scott Brown for opposing the president’s plan to tax large Wall Street firms to recoup money from the bailout. Polls show Democrat Martha Coakley in a close race with Brown in the campaign to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat. Biden’s e-mail was part of a stepped-up effort by Democrats to try to close that gap. The vice president says in the e-mail that Coakley would be a strong ally of Obama and that...

An exhausted but gung-ho Scott Brown vowed yesterday to win his insurgent campaign for U.S. Senate - while reassuring voters that they will only be sending him to Washington for twoyears. “This is like a trial period,” he said. “People have the opportunity to send me down there for a couple years. ’Cause I’m up for re-election soon thereafter. So what have they got to lose?” Sitting down with the Herald editorial board, the Republican state senator from Wrentham noted Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley’s light schedule of events. “While Martha’s taking kind of a break, I’ve been everywhere,” he...