Will Scott Brown Run in NH?

Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican from Massachusetts who owns a vacation home in Rye, N.H., told reporters after giving a speech in Nashua tonight that he might not rule out a run for Senate in New Hampshire, according to The Associated Press.

Read the story on The Boston Globe.

The big U.S. Senate contest in New Hampshire in 2014 showcases the re-election campaign of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a popular Democrat who was first elected to the Senate in 2008, but who is a formidable political power broker over the past 25 years. Shaheen, New Hampshire's senior senator, is a former three-term governor who is already building her re-election war chest.

Shaheen's popularity remains high, according to the University of New Hampshire Survey Center's recent public opinion poll. The poll found 59 percent of New Hampshire adults responding have a favorable opinion. The same survey found that benchmark at 51 percent for U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).

The buzz about Brown not ruling anything out perhaps has louder volume than it normally would have because no major GOP candidate has yet to come out and challenge Shaheen.

On Saturday night, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (who also has a vacation home in New Hampshire) is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the McIntyre-Shaheen Dinner, a major party event in Manchester.

Ray Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, had this to say about the Scott Brown story:

“New Hampshire Republicans are clearly in a state of utter panic if they are recruiting failed Massachusetts politicians like Scott Brown. His record of standing up for Wall Street instead of Main Street didn’t work six months ago in Massachusetts and it won’t work in New Hampshire any time soon.”

Brown was a speaker at the 11th annual "Keeping the Dream Alive" event in Nashua on April 4.