he sent out this indecipherable tweet, that didn t help out either. in last nine months, brown has flirted with running in the special election for john kerry s u.s. senate seat. he visited iowa twice. he toyed with the idea of running for president. now he is appearing regularly in new hampshire, where brown has put his massachusetts home on the market, which would leave him with just one house in new hampshire. now, pomming shows he d be at least competitive in a race, brown has been coy in what he is up to. it got to be too much for the powerful conservative voice in new hampshire t. feared editorial page of the union leader, which excorated brown for his state flirtation, brown quote makes jean jahine stronger and the state republican party weaker. they issued an ultimatum, brown needs to move here and state a run or state definitively he
what is your read of how the republicans have reacted this week? i do do think it is trickling down. i think it comes to the electtorial election t. president said during the government shutdown the social security checks go out. during the debt ceiling if we get to that point, they won t go out. i think he knows the president knows the pressure is going to be turning up for republicans. people, senior citizens are going to be calling in their representatives. offices are going to be saying, hey, i want my checks coming in. i don t care if you are against this because your party is against it. you into ed to vote to get this over with. so i do think in terms of the democratic stance, they do have that favorability with it bought of the connection. michael what do you think hearing that, what do you think like john baner is think something where do you think he is right now is he just looking for some way, anyway out? he was probably thinking, could i give the gavel back, is that
resent that a lot. this was the first time republicans in new hampshire ever got the opportunity to give them back. go down to massachusetts and it was huge, republicans flooded. now you go to call centers, brown campaign set up call centers near the border so new hampshire republicans can go down and make phone calls for him and they were full. so he was this great hero in new hampshire to republicans. so there would be potentially an opening for him, to avoid the carpet backer charge. there is a ground swell? new hampshire is a state with more than half residents are from out of state. so he could conceivably come in. now we go to the last six months or. so if april, he s at an event for martin luther king, jr., a memorial event. he talks a lot about himself. someone asks him about running in new hampshire. he talks incessantly about how he s basically grew up in new hampshire. a lot of family ties here. all of a sudden, joan shaheen
overcome. i feel safe. i feel good about it. the other thing is he has a ton of money. he can use that for the mobilization game. yes the tea partiers are fired up. the numbers of democrats registered in new jersey proceed away republicans. cory booker, now the election has his attention, he can turn to it. throw money to getting to the poll on the wednesday of the election. the interesting dynamic, both of them are mayors in new jersey. right? for some reason, cory booker, he s on morning joe all the time. he s a political intricate he feels like a part of the walk establishment already which has enabled steve lonegan to run as the typical outsider tea partier against this guy that wants to have cocktail parties and be by the political you can be born in texas but be in new jersey. i have seen a number of, this has happened a number of times in joouj new jersey the republican candidate will get within striking distance.
rollout, at times rocky rollout of the health care law, everything is focused entirely on the shutdown. so this is frustrating for republicans who see president obama s numbers at a two-year low in our poll, why are we giving him the life line right now? so i think that is a source of deep frustration. it also is a part of a larger lament, larger complaint i find also, year of election, their second essential loss, they are locked in this interminal bull back and forth with president obama over spending issues in washington and that the reform of the party is being obscured or delayed because they can never get out of these intractable problems with president obama. and the people who believe the governors in the party or the salvation are really angry because the face of the party is, if not ted cruz, it s john boehner and mitch mcconnell.