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Scott Brown’s very bad omen: What his dopey campaign says about Democrats’ prospects

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As if Democrats needed anything else to worry about, there is the New Hampshire situation.

Former naked Senate person Scott Brown enjoyed being a senator. What's not to like? You get to work in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body and deliberate until the cows come home. Then he lost a reelection bid to Elizabeth Warren in 2012 and couldn't be a senator anymore. So he moved to New Hampshire and said, sure, this is good enough, I'll be a senator from here. New Hampshire is a blue state -- redder than some other New England states, sure -- and his challenger, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, is relatively popular up there.

Well guess what, Scott Brown may win it anyway. A New England College poll released yesterday showed Brown ahead by about 1 percentage point. A SurveyUSA poll before that showed Brown only down by 2. Most other polls before that had Shaheen somewhere between 5 and 10 percentage points up. Maybe these two polls, showing a tightening race, are just outliers. Maybe they're not.

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