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Scott Brown plays roll of the handsome but forgettable bench warmer

Benefiting from a new surge in recognition and a political awakening, voters in Massachusetts have offered support to the financial wisdom of Elizabeth Warren while handing current Senator Scott Brown an early and tepid lunch.

Warren, well known for establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (although Republicans kept her from chairing the new national agency), is currently 4 percentage points down to Brown, and the Senator seems content to slip into the mists of obscurity, having left no memorable mark in his three years in the Senate other to rack up a solid go-along, get-along voting record.

There is a growing opinion that Warren is the first candidate who might well earn the seat vacated by Senator Ted Kennedy’s passing. And while MA Governor Deval Patrick and sort-of-favorite nephew Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II had been considered likely candidates to challenge Brown, it seems that Elizabeth Warren’s rise to prominence on the national stage all but shuts the door on the two likeliest Democratic challengers. Both Kennedy and Patrick currently poll better than Brown (it doesn’t take much, apparently), but Democrats have traditionally waited for a newcomers to prove out (or not) before stepping to key roles.

Mike Mokrzycki, a consultant who produced the poll for U Mass-Lowell, said that Patrick’s and Kennedy’s numbers were probably boosted by name recognition, but he didn’t think their numbers meant that they would have been stronger candidates than Warren.

Even MA Attorney General Marthy Coakley managed a draw with Brown in polling in 2008, although she ran a terrible campaign and lost by a sliver of a percentage. Judging by his record in the Senate, Brown would be hard pressed to run against a tree stump and come out even in 2012

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