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2010-01-23 cnn

SCOTT BROWN, REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE: This is my truck. I put a lot of miles on it during this campaign.

ACOSTA: Coakley's challenger, the pickup-driving Republican State lawmaker Scott Brown, has the backing of frustrated Tea Party voters.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don't like the health care. That's the bill that's in Congress right now. I think it's going to be a very dangerous control of our rights.

ACOSTA: Brown's vowing to deny Democrats the 60th vote in the Senate needed to pass health care reform.

BROWN: I want to be the person to go down there and send the health care back to its drawing board.

ACOSTA: This ultimate blue state is seeing red in part because some Independents and Conservatives who supported Democrats in the past are having second thoughts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think it's -- it's particularly the president. I don't think it's particularly Coakley. I think it's -- it's the direction that this country is taking. We need to send a message to -- to the people. The people are very angry.

ACOSTA: Even die-hard Democrats accuse Coakley, who once had a double-digit lead here, of running a lackluster campaign.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That she's (ph) more likeable as a candidate, but there's some things that are turning me off about her as a candidate.

ACOSTA: The race is so close Democrats are now trying to figure out if they can pass health care reform if Coakley loses and before Brown would take office -- a scenario Republicans welcome.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They slow walk the certification and they warp speed the vote, that is it. That is it. You're going -- we will win the House for sure and probably take over this...