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Brown banks on likability, but Warren has room to grow

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 22, 2012

Maybe it’s the magazine-model looks, the Army uniform, or the image he’s crafted with his pickup truck and barncoat. Whatever the reason, Senator Scott Brown is a likeable sort, a Republican who even some Massachusetts Democrats supported when he won a special election in January 2012. As he runs for reelection, though, one question confronting him is whether likability - and his constant effort to reinforce it - is enough to propel him toward reelection.

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