president obam abut as the story goes, the republicans and even perhaps a few democrats ran her out of town. senator brown, if you haven t been paying attention, won his traditionally democratic seat in a special election after the death of senator ted kennedy, a tipoff to the white house that trouble lurk in the land of hope and change. so this is an extremely critical election for both parties as they fight to control the u.s. senate. it is a wonder that senator brown won an election in the people s republic of massachusetts t. might even take a miracle for him to hold his job in a state where democrats outnumber republicans 3 to 1. both candidates have gone down the campaign cherk list on the issues, a little foreign affair, a little economic hand wringing and more recently, professor warren has been accused of representing corporate interests out of her office in cambridge without a license to practice law in massachusetts.