One Poll Isn't News

Republicans are abuzz with the latest news from New Hampshire: former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is leading incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen 49-44 in the latest poll.

Close-Up: Taking Stock of Scott Brown

The big news is out: Scott Brown is officially in the New Hampshire Senate race to challenge Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

For the last year I was skeptical of the former Massachusetts senator running for Senate again, especially since he had specifically declared that he was too tired to run for any election in 2014; in fact, I was actually quite annoyed that polling for a man who hadn't even entered the race was crowding out polling for the real Granite Staters who were actually running. There were two reasons for this: first, I didn't like the idea of putting people in the simulator who hadn't even indicated that they were running. (I have the same feelings when it comes to everyone crowding around Hillary 2016--even though she's still thinking it over. More on that in later posts, though.) Second, I felt pretty sure that his move wasn't in preparation for a Senate run in 2014 but rather for a presidential run in 2016.

I still believe those decisions were the right ones at the time; of course, now that I've been proven wrong, we need to re-evaluate this race.