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Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has taken a seven percentage point lead over incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), buoying prospects for the Harvard professor according to a new poll.

Warren garnered 49 percent of registered voters, compared to 42 percent for brown, according to the poll released Wednesday by the Boston Herald and UMass-Lowell. Those numbers represent substantial gains for Warren, who trailed Brown 41 to 38 percent in a similar poll in October.

While Warren's 10-point-swing is troubling for the Brown campaign in it's own right, perhaps even more troubling is that the senator's favorability and approval ratings have also dropped substantially. Over the past two months, Brown's job approval rating has slipped from 53 percent to 45 percent, while only 48 percent say they have a favorable view of their senator. That number is down from 52 percent in September.

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