This morning on SiriusXM, I chatted with Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts.

Ebullent and with a local accent that reminded me of my late friend Dean Barnett, Brown made clear he’s gotten used to being an underdog. But he’s also a man who’s won six contested races and who garnered more votes than Obama in his district last year. He indicated that his race is neither clearly nationalized nor focused exclusively on local issues. He made clear he would indeed be that 41st vote against the current version of health care before the Senate, and that he wanted the chamber to “go back to the drawing board.” He expressed pride that in all of his years in the state legislature, he’s never voted for a tax increase.

Perhaps most surprising to me was when I asked about the RNC and NRSC, Brown said that everything he’s wanted, he’s gotten, mostly phones and technological assistance. He’s still looking for donations and volunteers, but has already reached the point where his campaign made 180,000 calls to voters last night. He noted that while the campaign of his Democratic rival, Martha Coakley, went dormant during the holidays, he’s gone all-out since the primary began on September 12, and he’s going to continue until the minute the polls close on Election Night.

I’ve said earlier that Brown needs a perfect storm to win this race. A veteran GOP strategist offered another metaphor earlier this year, when he said that to win in a good environment, the party needs to get good boats (good candidates) with good crews (good campaigns) and their sails high in the air (emphasizing the right issues) and pointed in the right direction (no self-defeating scandals or gaffes) and then hope for a strong wind behind them (the mood of the electorate). In Brown and those around him, those first couple of ingredients seem to be assembling. The question is, how strong is the wind?