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In reply to the discussion: To the John Kerry fans- Scott Brown wallops all male candidates for Special Senate Election by 17pts [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)that means this is a temporary position, ending in 2016. Because if he and hillary don't get along, then she wouldn't keep him on in Jan. 2017, she will bring her own person in.
If he ran for reelection, he would be in office til 2020.
So he would be in power longer, wouldn't he?
Teddy himself was a senator (and one of the best of all time) for close to 50 years.
Once he shook the Presidential loss off, he kept at being the best of the best
Kerry only became Senior senator a few years ago. Seems like that was one of the most powerful position, more so than SOS...so I don't get why he would leave it.
How many big liberals does the senate have? Brown may be a moderate repub, but certainly not as liberal as Kerry, right?
so unless Mrs. Kennedy runs, and she has more gravitas than Tedddy Jr. at this point,
I do believe we won't win if anyone other than a Kennedy runs
(unless the impossible happens and Bloomberg himself does, but that is kind of not going to happen).
But then Bobby wasn't a NYer and became Senator in NY, so who knows.
But this shall be a major money race-perhaps 100million will be thrown in by that Sheldon what's his name in Vegas so I hope if it's not aKennedy, the candidate is major anti-gun and anti-NRA and can come up with financing.