I don’t know who’s doing Scott Brown’s ads, but like Michael Graham, I think they’re terrific. I suspect you’ll see a lot of this kind of advertising through the year – positive, little snippets of the candidates interacting with voters, having a laugh, showing enthusiasm and connections to the community.

Massachusetts readers say they’ve never seen the airwaves so suddenly and totally inundated with negative ads as they have in the past day or so. Maybe this will work for Coakley; on paper, in a heavily Democratic state, it should. But in the end, an avalanche of attack ads could only help Jon Corzine so much, and in the case of Creigh Deeds, it probably was counterproductive. I wonder if Massachusetts voters are looking at the “SCOTT BROWN IS EVIL INCARNATE” ads and thinking . . . “Yeah, but what does Coakley stand for? What does she want to do?”