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Outside groups fuel Brown-Warren ad war

Negative messages get heavy TV play

For days, Eastern Massachusetts television viewers have been seeing a fake Senator Scott Brown dumping trash from his smog-spewing truck. Yesterday, images of Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, juxtaposed beside protesters waving a socialist banner, began showing up on TVs statewide. If you believe the barrage of ads, the 2012 Senate race will pit the oil company pawn against the campus radical. Is the election really a year away?

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