SURVEY: Mass. Republicans Say Brown Should Focus on Economy To Beat Warren

After three polls released last week showed Elizabeth Warren ahead of Scott Brown in the U.S. Senate race, while another showed Brown ahead of Warren, Patch surveyed influential Massachusetts Republicans to get their take.

Republican Sen. Scott Brown should focus on the economy during the final stretch of his campaign to fend off Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren's rise in the polls: that's the main finding of this week's Red Commonwealth survey of influential Massachusetts Republicans. Three polls by three separate polling organizations showing Warren ahead of Brown—but barely—were released early last week.  Further illustrating how tight the race has become, hours after Patch sent the survey out to Massachusetts Republicans, another poll by UMass Lowell and the Boston Herald showed Brown ahead of Warren by 6 points, with a 5.5 percent margin of error, after an UMass Lowell/Herald poll nine months ago had Warren leading by 7. A majority of influential …

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