Vote the person, not the party. That’s the closing argument from Scott Brown, the Republican senator seeking re-election in strongly Democratic Massachusetts. “I’ve kept my promise to be an independent voice. I’ve put people ahead of politics, and now I...
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Scott Brown: Vote the Person, Not the (Republican) Party
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Sen. Scott Brown a campaign stop with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in Watertown, Mass., on Oct. 24, 2012.
Senate Republicans Send $1.5 Mln to Massachusetts in Aid of Scott Brown
The campaign arm of the Senate Republicans sent $1.53 million last month to its party organization in Massachusetts, where Sen. Scott Brown is in a close race with Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. It was the single largest transfer from the...
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Democrat Elizabeth Warren campaigns for the Senate at a senior housing complex in Quincy, Mass., on Oct. 16, 2012.
Warren: Senate Hangs on ‘One Vote’ — as Brown Touts Independence
Vote to re-elect Scott Brown, and you may get a Republican-controlled Senate. That’s the message that Democrat Elizabeth Warren is trying to convey to voters in Massachusetts as she campaigns to unseat the incumbent Republican senator in the Nov. 6...
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Supporters of Republican incumbent Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren outside Symphony Hall in Springfield, Mass., on Oct. 10, 2012 prior to the candidates' third debate.
Brown, Warren Raise $20 Million More for Massachusetts Senate Race
Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren together raised about $20 million in July, August and September, their campaigns announced today. Warren, a Harvard University professor and onetime adviser to President Barack Obama on financial regulatory policy,...
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US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hands out beef jerky to journalists on board his campaign plane at the Philadelphia International Airport .
Romney Home in Belmont — Brown: `The Boys are Back in Town’
Updated at 4 pm EDT Republican Mitt Romney has returned to the Boston area. And Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican seeking re-election in a tough contest with Democratic consumer advocate and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, is happy about that....
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Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., left, and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, right, before their first debate along with moderator Jon Keller, center, on Sept. 20, 2012, in Boston.
`Professor’ Warren: Shades of `Professor’ Moynihan (Who Won)
If you watched the Sept. 20 Massachusetts U.S. Senate debate between Republican Senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, you couldn’t help but notice how Brown constantly referred to his opponent as “Professor Warren.” “If you want someone who’s...
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Elizabeth Warren at a campaign event in Scituate, Massachusetts.
Brown vs. Warren: $48M and Counting
“The nation’s hottest Senate race is in Massachusetts.” So notes Bloomberg Television’s Peter Cook, who has interviewed both Republican Sen. Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate, in “a heavyweight fight that could determine...
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Mitt Romney boards his plane on Sept. 18, 2012 in Salt Lake City before departing for Dallas where he will attend a fundraiser.
Washington Daybook: Romney Rebuked
The hits just keep coming for Mitt Romney. Rebuked by members of his own party including Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown after Romney’s “47 percent” remarks at a May fundraiser went viral, Romney wakes up today finding himself behind in the...
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Alexis Keslinke, 22, cheers for Elizabeth Warren during the 2012 Massachusetts Democratic Endorsing Convention.
Warren Rises in Massachusetts Race Despite Brown’s Popularity
Most Massachusetts voters like their Republican U.S. senator. They just don’t like the idea of a Republican U.S. Senate. That’s one takeaway from polls showing Democrat Elizabeth Warren surging against Senator Scott Brown. Warren led Brown by 48 percent to...
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Joseph Kennedy III, left, son of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy, visits voters outside a polling station at a school in Needham on Sept. 6, 2012.
It’s Primary Day in Massachusetts, With a Kennedy on the Ballot
Primary elections today in Massachusetts will mostly ratify long-anticipated matchups for the Nov. 6 general election. Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor and one-time adviser to President Barack Obama, is unopposed on the Democratic side in her quest to unseat Republican...
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