Brown Holds His Own vs. Shaheen
Their debate opens with one agreement: “There are some real differences.”
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After airing hundreds of television ads in New Hampshire, incumbent Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and her Republican challenger Scott Brown shared the same stage on Monday, trading barbs over immigration, contraception, and foreign policy.
The race, which Shaheen is leading by 4.6 percentage points in the latest average of polls by RealClearPolitics, is the closest in the northeast – and Republicans have seen it as a possible pickup in their quest to take political control of the Senate.