Still within the margin of ACORN fraud but exciting nonetheless.

Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown has surged ahead of his Democratic opponent Martha Coakley, according to a new poll released Thursday night.

Brown leads Coakley by a margin of 50 percent to 46 percent, the Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll found. It is the first poll to show Brown, who had been thought a long-shot underdog, leading the race.

It raises the possibility of an historic political upset in Massachusetts.

It also raises the possibility that, for the first time in a long time, Massachusetts might have Senate representation by someone who isn’t a complete dillhole.

We can dream, can’t we? It may actually happen that the people of Massachusetts will decide that replacing an alcoholic manslaughter dodger with an Attorney General who set free a guy who raped a 23 month-old child is, um, a total f-ing embarrassment.

Or they may choose to continue doing things like John Kerry.

Either way, this is still WAY too close. If Minnesota judges allowed every crayon-scrawled ballot for Al Franken to be allowed imagine what will happen in Massachusetts.

It’s foot on the gas time for the Brown campaign and anyone helping it. Keep getting the word out!