Barney Frank in the election fight of his life

Congressman Barney Frank, (shown below with his Republican opponent Sean Bielat) father of sub prime mortgage loan fiasco and closely tied to the 2008 U.S. bank bailout, is in a tough re-election battle after 15 terms in office.

Challenging the Massachusetts liberal is Republican Sean Bielat, an Iraq war veteran, and opinion polls suggest Frank has an uncomfortably narrow lead over a political unknown.

Massachusetts has already been the scene of one of the year's biggest upsets, when Republican Scott Brown won a special election for the U.S. Senate seat held for almost five decades by a Democratic Party pillar, the late Edward Kennedy.


"If Barney Frank loses, it would be as significant as Scott Brown's win. You would really begin to see the depths of this anti-government sentiment," said Marc Landy, professor of political science at Boston College.

After a debate Barney Frank sent his latest boyfriend James Ready (shown above with Barney Frank) to heckle his political opponent Sean Bielat.

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