John Kerry

Thinking back to the time of Brown's election as a "tea party candidate", Mass. voters felt like they already had their universal health care, and were against its passage (which admittedly was an ugly process at that point with the ridiculous union concessions at the last minute). They specifically voted for Brown to vote against health care reform, and he did. Has anything changed in their feelings since then? Or is it more that a whole lot more people will vote in November, and they aren't the same group that elected him in the first place? I don't know. If he were consistent, then he will say he wants to repeal health care, seeing that he voted against it. He'll probably just take the middle road of "repeal and replace" or some vague language of fixing the parts he doesn't like. He doesn't need to cater to the far Right anymore, so he won't give a hard line answer, but a lame split the difference answer.

I don't think it will cost him. It's more how Warren can frame him in all this. I'm not following the election that closely, but I see it is basically tied at this point.