It’s always tempting to read too much into special election results, if only because there are no other real barometers of public opinion available at the time. (It’s what makes them special!)
But a reader passed along this Washington Post story about Niki Tsongas’ narrow win in a heavily Democratic Congressional district Read More
For those of you looking for 2008 tea leaves, Lowell-area native Steve Kornacki follows up on his recent Clinton-goes-to-Massachusetts piece with a detailed take on Niki Tsongas’ narrow victory in a Congressional special election there yesterday, and what (if anything) it means for next year.
Niki Tsongas, the widow of the late former Senator Paul E. Tsongas, won a special Congressional election in Massachusetts on Tuesday night, but her narrow margin – a 51 to 46 percent win over Republican Jim Ogonowski – figures to provoke much discussion among the national political class today.
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There was a certain generic familiarity to the proceedings at the jam-packed city auditorium in Lowell, Mass., on Sunday night: With Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best” blaring and more than 2,500 Democrats screaming and stomping their feet in delight, Bill Clinton strolled onto the stage arm in arm with his party’s candidate for Congress. Like Read More
The next major event on the U.S. political calendar is not in Iowa, New Hampshire or even Florida. It’s actually next week in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts, where a the lone open House seat in the country – vacated by six-term Rep. Marty Meehan’s May resignation – will essentially be Read More
