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Brown’s high hopes ran into Senate reality

Freshman senator has carved independent course

By Christopher Rowland and Bobby Caina Calvan

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 20, 2012

Scott Brown’s first two years in office have amounted to a challenging rookie season. The Massachusetts Republican has discovered that his considerable political charms and carefully cultivated working-man image - the ingredients for his electoral success in the Bay State - have not always helped him navigate a clubby Senate chamber that is well-stocked with outsized egos, riven by partisan divides, and operates under byzantine rules and traditions.

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