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Democratic jitters in Massachusetts Senate race

Brown’s resurgence in polls has shaken some of party’s confidence in Warren

By Frank Phillips

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 06, 2012

After a huge rush of optimism that Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy would end Scott Brown’s hold on his US Senate seat, Democratic insiders are awakening to a new political reality, driven by a series of recent polls. The campaign’s re-shaped landscape, which appears to have shifted in Brown’s favor, has created a quiet buzz among some in the party that Warren, despite her incredible burst onto the Massachusetts electoral map last fall, has hit some strong head winds.

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