And the New York Times notes that Scott Brown’s victory has rejuvenated Republicans in another very blue state: Illinois. Republicans in Illinois hold no statewide offices, are minorities in both chambers of the State Legislature and struggle some years to recruit viable candidates even at the top of the ballot. But the election last week of a long-shot Republican, Scott Brown, to the Senate in Massachusetts, a similarly blue state, has invigorated Republicans here … Representative Mark Steven Kirk, the front-runner in the Republican primary for the Senate seat once held by President Obama, has even taken to echoing Mr. Brown’s campaign remarks. “No one should make the mistake by calling this the Obama seat,” he said in an interview. “This is the seat of the people of Illinois.”