"We cheated, and he still beat us."

Democrats admit to cheating in Brown’s 2004 race.

In 2004, Brown won a special election to become state senator, despite the state Democrats scheduling the election to coincide with the Presidential primary, when Democrats would be flocking to vote for John Kerry. (As one Democratic operative recently put it to me: “We cheated, and he still beat us.”) Brown then won a re-match in November, on the same ballot as Kerry vs. Bush.

The shocker isn’t that a democrat cheated. It’s that they admitted it.

As Jay said last night, for Scott Brown to win his polling numbers have to exceed the margin of cheat.