The Rothenberg Political Report has changed its rating of the Massachusetts Senate race to “toss up.”
Rothenberg had the special election listed as “narrow advantage for the incumbent party.”
“This race has become about change, President Obama and Democratic control of all of the levers of power in Washington, D.C. Brown has ‘won’ the ‘free media’ over the past few days, and if he continues to do so, he will win the election,” reads the report.
“Late Democratic efforts to demonize Republican Scott Brown, to make the race into a partisan battle and to use the Kennedy name to drive Democratic voters to the polls could still work. But the advertising clutter in the race works against them, and voters often tune out late messages, which can seem desperate.”
