A new WMUR Granite State Poll shows incumbent Dem Sen. Jeanne Shaheen leading GOP carpetbagger and Cosmo centerfold Scott Brown by eight points among likely voters, 50 to 42.
Is she about to do to him in New Hampshire what Elizabeth Warren did to him in Massachusetts? Will he move to yet a third state and try again?
Republican Scott Brown is gaining on incumbent Dem Jeanne Shaheen in their New Hampshire Senate race. The Empty Barn Jacket leads 46-44. Last month’s 12-point Shaheen lead seemed a little too good to be true.
But Brown’s still underwater in his favorables/unfavorables at 36-38, while Shaheen’s are positive at 48-36. And 60% of those polled said their votes weren’t solid.
The barn jacket and the pick-up truck have lost their magic. Poor Scott Brown just wants to be in the Senate, people. But having been kicked out by the people of Massachusetts in favor of Elizabeth Warren, his slither across the border to New Hampshire isn’t panning out. He’s trailing another woman, incumbent Dem Jeanne Shaheen, by 12 points — 52 to 40.
And his favorables/unfavorables are upside down at 31 and 40. Hers are right side up at 57-29.
A beat-up Scott may have to toss his carpetbag in that beat-up truck and head back home.
Running for Senate in his new home state of New Hampshire, where Obamacare has achieved more than 200% of its goal for signups, Scott “Empty Barn Jacket” Brown says he will repeal Obamacare, but the people who have signed up can keep it. Obviously, it is stupid to promise people they will have Obamacare when Obamacare no longer exists.
But now Mitch McConnell is promising the same thing in Kentucky, where almost half a million people have signed up. McConnell says the state’s exchange has nothing to do with Obamacare. But of course if Obamacare goes, so goes the federal exchange and all the state exchanges.
Leo, the NYT computer model for Senate races, currently gives Dems a 56% chance of keeping their majority.
Leo really doesn’t like Scott Brown. He [It?] gives Brown only a 3% chance of beating Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire.
As the election season draaaags on, it will be interesting to compare Josh Katz and his Leo with Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight.
Republican Scott Brown, having lost his Massachusetts Senate seat to Elizabeth Warren and now trying to take Jean Shaheen’s New Hampshire seat, has been running hard against Obamacare, vowing to repeal it.
But the thing is, Obamacare has done really well in New Hampshire, hitting 211% of its enrollment goal, higher than any other state. So Brown has been running around promising that he’ll “grandfather in” New Hampshire residents to Obamacare when it’s repealed.
Um, how do you grandfather people into a program that you’ve repealed? You can’t, and that’s why Scott is our Moron of the Day.
“Sen. Shaheen is not from here, but apparently it’s a problem with me.”
Republican Scott Brown, former Massachusetts senator now trying to become a New Hampshire senator
Jeanne Shaheen, former New Hampshire governor and incumbent senator, has lived in the state for more than 40 years. Scott Brown registered to vote in the Granite State three months ago.
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com says the GOP has a 60% chance of taking the Senate.
But he’s not bullish on our favorite empty barn jacket, former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown, who is now running in New Hampshire against Jeanne Shaheen. Silver gives Shaheen a 75% chance of keeping her seat, leaving Brown to hop in his pickup truck and perhaps look for love (he is, after all, a former Cosmopolitan centerfold) in yet a third state.
I suspect — and fervently hope — these stories, unlike the BS in the Koch Brothers ads, are going to become more common between now and the mid-terms in November.
So Republican Scott Brown, who used to be a senator from Massachusetts and is trying to become a senator from New Hampshire because he just really, really likes being a senator, went to visit Herb Richardson, a GOP state legislator, hoping to win his endorsement.
Richardson used to own a 12-room house, but after getting injured on the job, he lives on workman’s comp, lost his house, and lives in a trailer.
Workman’s comp pays him $2,000 a month, and Richardson would have had to pay $1,000 of that just to keep his health insurance under COBRA.
But because of Obamacare, Richardson and his wife get health insurance for only $136 a month. That’s very different, as Emily Litella would say.
So when Brown, I guess oblivious to the fact that he was visiting a guy in a trailer, called Obamacare a “monstrosity,” Richardson said, au contraire, it was a “financial lifesaver.” To which Mrs. Richardson added, “Thank God for Obamacare.”
According to the local reporter present, Brown had no response.
Former GOP Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has been suspended from his commentator job at Fox News, so he’s definitely running for Senate again — this time from New Hampshire.
Embattled Farmers 