1. Show off his Granite State ties: Brown’s first order of business in New Hampshire is to convince voters in the state that he is not an opportunistic outsider looking to resurrect his political career, but a public servant looking to go where service calls. To do that, he has to convince the GOP's elders and donors he deserves the job.
It was less than two years ago that Brown was casting votes as the senator from Massachusetts. And while it’s not uncommon for a politician to run outside his or her home state (see: Hillary Clinton, Robert Kennedy), Brown’s not just a man who relocated to a state to run for Senate: He's a former senator from Massachusetts who ran for re-election, lost and then drove across the state line for a second chance.
A Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll in March summed it up when it asked voters to identify words they most associated with Brown.
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