In a low turn out election, Brown won this seat cause he talked about the seat belonging to Teddy Kennedy not to the public. Once he got into office, MA is very clear he continued to block the prez agenda by voting to extend the Bush tax cuts, very much so in the manner of Coleman and Smith moderate GOP males, voting to extend Bush tax cuts in Blue state get voted out of office
The special election that sent Brown to Washington had the same approximate turnout as the 2010 general election that sent Deval Patrick back to Beacon Hill. Massachusetts took that special election seriously.
It was a high turnout special election, but well below turnout for a presidential election, which is what matters. I sound like a broken record on this but it's still relevant that Brown got the same number of votes as McCain did when he was losing the state by a sizable margin. He's going to have to win the votes of lots of Obama voters who sat out both the special election and Patrick's mid-term election.
