Saturday, March 10, 2012

A Rising Tide Lifteth All Boats...

There has been a lot of palaver recently in the press about Scott Brown's sudden surge in the polls in his race for re-election to the US Senate.
A lot of the chatter centers around Brown's steadfast support for the anti contraception "Blunt Amendment".
People seem to think Brown's uncharacteristic die hard advocacy somehow solidified his bona fides with conservative "Reagan Democrats" etc etc.
Never mind the fact that Brown for two weeks was in effect demanding Sharia Law in the Workplace...
Nonethless, he is up in the polls five percent nine percent the numbers vary.
My own guess is, that as the economy improves especially the job creation numbers, that Brown's own prospects concurrently improve.
In other words, good news for Barack Obama is good news for Scott Brown.
Seems to me that his polling and the rising economic trends do seem to dovetail chronologically.
Hell I could be wrong, Humble Elias is no numbers cruncher.
Moreover, this bodes ill for the democrats in some ways, because a return of confidence, undercuts in some sense Citizen Warren's anti Wall Street pitch, which is her strongest issue without question.
That having been said, neither candidate has grounds for complacency...This is gonna be a long hard fought campaign, Brown may have done nothing to alienate Massachusetts voters but then again he has done almost nothing to their benefit either. Watching Scott decide on a major issue is like watching a snake digest a Slinky.
Everyone has their work cut out for them.

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