Ah swan, but it seems Citizen Warren now trails Former State Senator Scott Brown in current polling.
This was to be expected, Brown is now in full campaign mode, he has money nor has any destructive scandal to his name, so believe me the race is gonna seesaw back and forth as the year rolls on.
Elizabeth Warren is the underdog, keep repeating that to yourselves.
Now, Joanie Vennochi seems to think that the current contraception controversy might be driving down Citizen Warren's numbers, for once I won't rule out the possibility. Because at the very least, Joanie isn't trying to wish away the glass ceiling in the Commonwealth's Politics.
I myself think that the problem is more subtle & psychological in nature.
Humble Elias suspects that a lot of male voters in Massachusetts go into the polling booth with the following notion in their heads "I already live in the Most Liberal State in the Union, why should I live up to that reputation by voting a woman in as Governor/Senator?".
So it follows, that if Citizen Warren wants to win she needs to confront the mass psychology of the Glass Ceiling and furnish irrefutable reasons to vote for her and thus dispense with the services of Scott "Beefcake" Brown.
Otherwise Warren cannot win, if she simply ignores the glass ceiling, that tactic didn't work for Swift, Healey, Coakley or O'Brien, and it won't work now.
And in a larger context, this is the candidate, this is the campaign, everyone has their strengths and shortcomings, we are gonna have to win this one with what we have...expect no miracles in the 2012 Massachusetts Senate Race.
Because believe me, if we do not depose Former State Senator this year, we will never be quit of him til his pride swollen head carries him off to the New Hampshire Primary and certain electoral annihilation.
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