world here really think that what this comes down to is about 10% in the middle. both sides have about 45%, more or less locked up, and then there s 10% in the middle. those 10% generally like scott brown. they feel favorable to him. they re all voting for barack obama for president, and they all dislike the national republican party. that s where the fight is, and, you know, obviously the more that elizabeth warren can tie scott brown to that national party. they ve done it mostly, tried to do it mostly by painting him as a conservative, and that, i think, hasn t been as successful as like you said what she started to do towards the end of the debate and she hasn t done much in her ads, which is to say regardless of what his views are, he s putting guys like mcconnell and so forth in charge of the senate if you send him back. wheth when people talk about massachusetts, i grew up there, it s a democratic state and not
it s very much you sort of work your way up through the last congressman s office, and then you get appointed and everyone rallies around to put you into the seat next. that tends to be from man to man. i think that s changing a lot now, but we aren t seeing it move up the offices as quickly as in other states. i think it is changing. i think there are a lot of perceptions, and it certainly does not help matters at all that elizabeth warren is running in the immediate wake of martha coakley, who is, you know, for whatever set of reasons did not leave a favorable impression. a lot of people in the state still like her but did not were not thrilled about not a great campaign. not thrilled about the job she did against scott brown. david, the debate started with the elizabeth warren, is she or is she not part native-american? let s run a clip about that. professor warren claimed she was a native-american, a person of color. you can see she s not. when i was growing up, these
nearly as liberal as you think it is. when i look at brown s success i look at where i grew up, maybe cultural conservative. there s something about scott brown that really appeals to them. what do you think those voters see when they look at elizabeth warren? how is she doing with them? i think that it s on the edge. i think that s why this debate last night was really key introduction for a lot of them because most of them have really only seen her through, you know, some tv interviews and her ads obviously, a lot of advertising. but they haven t really seen her go back and forth. a lot of people have the type you re describing, and i completely agree with you about the makeup of massachusetts. it s not as liberal or knee jerk democrat as its often painted. but the problem that a lot of people are having, the types of people they find her to be
care about that issue at all are people who are ready, solid scott brown people. clearly the scott brown people believe otherwise. they believe that this does cut at her credibility in a way that perhaps lets them make other charges down the line. for instance, the working for travelers insurance against asbestos victimie victims charg. when you saw scott brown charge out of the gate and pound on this native-american issue means that it s an issue they want to keep pounding out and will for the rest of the race, i imagine. david, i want to go back to something you said earlier about the challenges facing women in massachusetts. you mentioned that people found elizabeth warren shrill and she needed to tone it down or her tone of voice. isn t that pafrt of the double standard women face?
are the stories i knew about my heritage. i believed my mother and my father and my aunts and my uncles, and i never asked anybody for any documentation. scott brown framed the issue in this really simplistic way that doesn t fit with modern america at all. you don t look native-american, ergo, you re not. which is the cab driver test. if a stranger thinks you re something at 10 yards away, that s what you are. i feel like lielizabeth warren dismantled him on that. i was a kid, and this is what the family told me. i didn t ask for documentation. do you think that issue goes away now? i don t think it goes away, because scott brown won t let it go away. i think elizabeth warren had clearly practiced that response every day for the last six months or so and delivered it pretty well. i think that certainly the polling shows everything that i see and anecdotally shows the only people that feel that they