GLEN JOHNSON
LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON - Sen.-elect Scott Brown, the Republican who upset Democrats in the special Senate election in Massachusetts, says he doesn't think it was a referendum on President Barack Obama.
Brown also said in a nationally broadcast interview Wednesday that he also doesn't think his victory over Attorney General Martha Coakley "was anything that she did." Brown said, instead, he was able to tap into growing aggravation among voters, including independents, over partisan gridlock in Washington.
Brown noted on NBC's "Today" show that he addressed concerns about terrorism, taxes and the Obama-pushed health care and that the many voters in the traditionally Democratic state "enjoyed the message." Brown won a comfortable margin in the election to elect a successor to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.