Brown wins New Hampshire Republican Senate primary

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Source: AP

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Brown won New Hampshire's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, moving forward in his attempt to get back to Washington from another state.

Brown faced nine opponents in the primary, though only two mounted serious campaigns, and he was the front-runner from the start. He'll face Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen in November in one of a handful of races that will decide control of the Senate for the final two years of President Barack Obama's term.

This is Brown's third U.S. Senate campaign in five years. One of the original tea party favorites, he shocked the nation by winning a special election to replace the late Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, in 2010. After getting soundly defeated by consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, in 2012, he moved to New Hampshire, where he had a vacation home and had lived as a toddler, seeking an alternate route to Washington.

If Brown is successful, he would become only the third U.S. senator to serve multiple states.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/brown-wins-new-hampshire-republican-senate-primary

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Now is the time for Shaheen to expose Brown as a phony and carpetbagger.

See also more coverage from local sources from NH and nearby MA communities:

New Hampshire Union-Leader, Manchester: It will be Brown versus Shaheen for Senate

Boston Globe: Scott Brown wins primary in bid for Senate return

[MADem]

1. I guess he spent that Koch cash wisely. nt

[Exultant Democracy]

2. Proves once again that being a carpetbagger isn't much of an issue.

I guess people just expect their politicians to be opportunistic climbers.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Well, that "opportunistic climber" Robert F. Kennedy was the Senator from New York

It's a mixed bag.

[Exultant Democracy]

5. I think by definition anyone who runs for POTUS probably qualifies as both.

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Haha! Game and match, sir!

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Brown will never top John Sevier, who was Governor of two states

Sevier was elected governor of the breakaway state of Franklin in 1785. The western portion of North Carolina, Franklin seceded in 1784 but was quickly brought to heel.

Eleven years later Sevier was elected governor of the newly formed state of Tennessee.

[EEO]

7. Carpetbagger.

[chelsea0011]

8. He was met with silence in a room of supporters as he spoke out against

The Affordable Care Act and Shaheen's vote for it as he gave his "victory" speech. LOL That act is dying on the vine.

[oldandhappy]

9. a successful manipulator , sigh

[davidpdx]

10. When he loses he can always go work with Eric Cantor