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Watching the video, it's not hard to see why people thought she lost.
The moderator, about whom I warned DU2, handed Brown an opening as wide as a barn door for the "fake Indian" issue, as it has come to be known in Massachusetts. She never attacked his veracity, though.
He said over and over how bipartisan he is, and she never brought up that the only vote he cast when his vote actually made any difference at all was Dodd-Frank--but he gutted it first, not that it had ever been a strong bill.
I had emailed her campaign office that info last week because, with all the gridlock since 2010 and the state of the country, people are desperate for legislators who can work outside their party. But, she didn't raise it, at least not during the first half hour.
And then they segued into how she wants to raise taxes.
Then the moderator took a break and I stopped watching.
I hear though he hit her later on on her hefty salary, too, though.
And he calls her "Professor" all the time too, as though that were a bad thing. Our "evenhanded" moderator introduced her as a Harvard Professor, too, omitting any mention of her Wall Street reform work in Washington, D.C. Just an elitist Harvard Professor. I don't even think he explained what she teaches.
Sigh.
She talks a lot about being a fighter, but, clearly, she does not know how to fight someone as slickly deceptive as Brown and someone as subtly partisan as the moderator. Then again, they've stuck her with the unlikeable label, so, if she had fought fire with fire, she would have lost that way, too.
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