Massachusetts State Primary Results

With Marshfield Reporting....
by: LiberalAlice
Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 20:55:58 PM EDT
It looks like Jim Cantwell is the winner of today's primary in Marshfield and Scituate. More numbers to follow from Bowes3.

Congratulations, Jim!
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Primary RESULTS open thread
by: David
Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 20:00:00 PM EDT
(Bumped. - promoted by David)

Post 'em if you got 'em!

UPDATES: 8:47 pm. AP has called US Senate for Kerry, who appears to be winning 2-1.

More:
http://tinyurl.com/5upvly


Results of the 31st Middlesex State Rep Primary
by: afertig
Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 20:34:47 PM EDT
(Jason Lewis is a terrific candidate. Congrats to him and all who worked on his campaign. - promoted by Charley on the MTA)

I just wanted to fill you all in on the results of the Democratic Primary for State Representative race here in Stoneham and Winchester. I've been working for Jason Lewis's campaign since June and as an active member of the Blue Mass Group community I wanted to thank you all for your support and let you know how it went.

We won by a 2 to 1 margin -- winning decisively in both Stoneham and Winchester.

More:
http://tinyurl.com/58dcoj


Idealism Trumps in Second Suffolk
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

It was nudge the rascal out yesterday. The one-plus percent victory by Sonia Chang-Díaz over state Senator Dianne Wilkerson might well have been 40%. Shielded with eight terms of incumbency and voter memories of pork, Wilkerson still couldn't protect herself.

Early returns had reformer Chang-Díaz up 58% to 42%, but with 100% of precincts in, Second Suffolk results were 9, 051 to 8,823 — a Sonia-trim win by 228 votes.

In pretty pathetic, but typical Wilkerson, style, the defeated incumbent immediately attributed the loss to nine polling places that had changed since the last election. She seems to have forgotten that she had vehicles at each to truck voters to the new spots. (Amusingly, she also blamed a single activist Chang-Díaz donor, Barbara Lee, according to PolitickerMA. Personal responsibility be damned again!)

She lost because she exceeded what seemed impossible to exceed. Wilkerson managed to overplay Bostonians' love of rascals. She was involved in too much financial misdealing too many times over too many years.

More:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2008/09/idealism-trumps-in-second-suffolk.html


Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Progressives Flash or Crash Yesterday
In Massachusetts, progressives had mixed results in yesterday's primary. Yet even the losses and unresolved elections are promising. Briefly, we have better choices than voters in most places in the nation.

The best was Sonia Chang-Díaz elbowing eight-term incumbent state Senator Dianne Wilkerson. That was the race that befuddled the most lefties here. Wilkerson had a great record of voting progressively, particularly on marriage equality and GLBT issues. She had a terrible record of obeying financial laws and regulations. Moreover, behind the affection for her voting record, she was not a leader in the sense that she created bills and created coalitions to enact them.

Elsewhere, two progressives went for U.S. Sen. John Kerry's seat. The incumbent crushed Gloucester lawyer Ed O'Reilly with nearly 70% of the vote. Yet being challenged in the Dem primary for the first time in his 24 years in office seemed to have been the hormone shot Kerry has needed for some time. He has been churning out bills and putting his name on funding, government and private, like a young legislator. O'Reilly challenge looks like a great boon to the voters here.

A few are unsolved as of this morning, like 29th Middlesex (Watertown and a snip of Cambridge), where Jon Hecht is one of several after the vacant seat. (Word from Steve Owens this morning is that Hecht, the race's progressive won by over 800 votes <55%>, excluding a runoff and virtually preventing any sticker campaigns.)

The progressives failed in 35th Middlesex. DINO Paul Donato skunked two lefties there — James Caralis and Patrick McCabe. (Links here are to their podcasts on Left Ahead! last month.) It seems Medford-area folk complain a lot about their rep, but are not ready to toss him.

More:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2008/09/progressives-flash-or-crash-yesterday.html



Trane conceeds, Sciortino celebrates victory on write-in campaign
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x14289