The city as a whole went heavily Democratic in statewide races. In fact, all of the state's largest cities went for Coakley, if not all at the same 66-30 margin Boston gave her. But that wasn't enough to overcome Baker's wins across the suburbs and exurbs between 128 and I-91.
Carlo Basile beat Celeste Ribeiro Myers to retain his state rep's seat in East Boston.
Up on the North Shore, Seth Moulton won the 6th District congressional seat. State House News Service quotes him:
We can expand the Blue Line to Lynn.
Looks like Steve Wynn will get to build his casino in Everett.
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Just ignore the 'drivers are
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 2:33pm
Just ignore the 'drivers are evil' trolls. It's pointless trying to have a meaningful conversation with them.
Drivers aren't evil
By Tired of Anecdata
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 3:50pm
Just highly subsidized and exceptionally entitled.
MBTA
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 5:04pm
Is heavily subsidizing the Big Dig - considering that the contract with the Feds included public transit projects, and those didn't get built because of cost overruns on the highway project, and then those cost overruns got dumped on the T.
Transit is vastly less expensive than building sprawl for private car travel. That is very well established - look it up.
Interesting how Quincy has turned purple over the years
By Nancy
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 7:44am
I've lived there for almost two decades and we've slowly changed from a deep blue city to purple. Yes, of course most local races are dominated by democrats (Koch, Lynch, Ayers - I'm looking at you) but when it comes to bigger races, it's purple-y.
We're even a bellweather city now.
Re: Quincy turns purple
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 1:13pm
Nancy, I was able to meet your Democrat Mayor Tom Koch at Charlie Baker's time at the Seaport last night. Great guy. I give him tremendous credit for being the first of what would become many Democrat Mayors to come out for Charlie. Don't forget, Coakley did herself no favors on the South Shore by prosecuting Tim Cahill, Al Grazioso, Scott Campbell, Jackie O'Brien and others on specious charges while looking the other way on DeMasi, DeLeo etc.
That region can also be forgiven for rejecting the Democrats after what's happened there. Betrayed by phonies and frauds like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Billy Delahunt and Gerry Studds voting against the military while General Dynamics Shipyard, Raytheon, Pneumatic Scale, Boston Gearworks, South Weymouth NAS all closed down leaving tens of thousands out of work. Koch and Ayers are also strong pro-life Catholics, and at least Lynch had the temerity to vote against his party and the disastrous Obamacare. Ayers also had the courage to highlight fellow Democrat Menino's mismanagement of the Long Island Bridge, long before Marty Walsh deemed it too unstable to stay open. Glad to see Quincy come through for Baker and the rest of the South Shore flip some long held Democrat seats, including Senate President Theresa Murray's seat to Republican. Keep up the good work!
Quincy's Koch
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:35pm
is purple. Looks painful.
One good thing to come out of
By kvn
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 8:13am
One good thing to come out of this , Lake Monsanto gets cleaned up. Now the gambling is a matter of personal responsibility , take it easy rolling those dice, boys and girls !
Lake Monsanto convinced me
By Alex_Toth
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 8:41am
After reading that a casino was the only likely way that land would get cleaned up in a reasonable timeframe that was a big factor in me rejecting the initiative. I'm still not happy about the way the gambling legislation progressed, but the end result seems reasonably legit.
Because the cleanup of one
By avjudge
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 8:51am
Because the cleanup of one plot of land is more important than the health of local communities?
Didn't the adjoining city of
By kvn
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:23am
Didn't the adjoining city of Revere vote to house a gambling emporium, and aren't there all sorts of machination that had gone on in the past with Suffolk Downs to compete for the gambling ? How local are you ? I am not a gambler, know that area very well ( always been gambling over there with Wonderland and Suffolk Downs anyway ) , but the people have spoken, twice with the back door kibosh ballot question. That mess gets cleaned up , that's a good externality.
You missed the boat on this one
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:52am
It's a Superfund site. You know, toxic waste and whatnot. We are in the most literal sense talking about the health of the local community.
Even I see that, and I somehow remain a Suffolk Downs supporter who probably will never set foot in Wynn's casino.
Same
By cybah
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:57am
Same here.. was all about a casino when it was at Suffolk. Everett.. no thanks. All set with Wynn and his 'casino'
In my omnipotent point of
By kvn
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:49pm
In my omnipotent point of view , I would have preferred that the gambling transition to the Suffolk Downs site. But the population of East Boston rejected the casino. Then the manipulation to reconfigure the site to a Revere only Suffolk Down facilities muddied the waters.And the people of Revere were down with it. But Everett was next in line, and the people were willing. You were going to get gambling somewhere over there from the get go, Everett won , and the Monsanto site gets cleaned up. So there are some negative aspects, but there is a big positive one. The people have spoken, so there you go. Sometimes you eat the bear , sometimes the bear eat you!
You actually trust casino
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:04am
You actually trust casino developers to properly clean up a toxic waste mess? ha ha ha!!!
They will because they agreed to it
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 5:18pm
There will be oversight by the involved agencies and environmental groups during the process.
There will be lawsuits and enforcement actions if they don't get it done and get it done right.
I hope you're right.
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 5:46pm
I hope you're right.
Gee, can't wait till
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:26am
Gee, can't wait till Massachusetts tax payers get to subsidize 3 casinos like Rhode Islanders do. You got scammed, voters!
http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/con...
Martha Chokeley has lost the
By m2
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:27am
Martha Chokeley has lost the race, we could have chosen a better candidate besides her for the Democratic ticket, What were these people thinking in voting for her, first for Attorney General and for Governor.
Well... This is what happens...
By RhoninFire
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:15am
This is what happens when someone like Coakley, of all people, is the nominee. She done too many failures and committed too many wrongs. It boggles how she somehow got to get a second shot. Let's never nominate her again.
It does make me have an amusing thought if Scott Brown have chosen to run for governor rather than overextend his hand showing himself as a politically expedient carpetbagger in NH. If losing to Baker means she could lose to Brown, than it's kinda an amusing thought to imagine to be in the rare club someone to lose twice, to the same person... in two different offices.
Edit: One more thought. Crazy to notice that Scott Lively manage to not be in last place. Somehow he got more votes than Jeff McCormick.
Brown's accomplishment
By perruptor
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:49am
It's one for the record books: He's managed to lose Senate races in two different states, two years apart, to two different women.
Heckofa job, Brownie!
He lost to a girl!?
By Stevil
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:25pm
What a wuss.
Let's face it - he had a massive uphill battle in both cases. Love him or hate him - running as a Republican in Mass is almost a political death sentence.
Less so in NH - but you had a fairly popular incumbent. Running against any incumbent is very hard especially if you just moved there (which Hillary Clinton did in NY and she had ZERO prior ties to the state).
For the record - he seems like a nice guy, not the brightest bulb on the planet and while I'm happy the Senate tips right, I like the fact that it's still close so not at all unhappy with Shaheen taking the election.
Will be interesting to see what the President does now. How much are both sides willing to compromise? The Republicans have already come out and said they are not going to wholesale dump Obamacare - just the bad parts. That's a good start.
Whats wrong to losing to a
By Patricia
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:48pm
Whats wrong to losing to a girl? Does that make him less of a man?
It's 2014 and "He lost to a girl" is kind of out dated, no?
(and I'm not even that easily offended).
Blame the medium
By Stevil
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 1:51pm
My sarcasm button was firmly in the "on" position. The poster made a comment about losing to "two women".
running as a Republican in
By Scratchie
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 1:03pm
That must explain why the Commonwealth has had so many Democratic governors over the last 24 years.
The exception
By Stevil
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 3:52pm
Does not make the rule:
Secretary - D
Treasurer - D
Atty General - D
Auditor - D
Both senators - D
All congresspeeps - D
State Senate - Overwhelmingly D
State House - Overwhelmingly D
Every mayor of every major city - D
City Council of Boston - D
No wonder we don't pronounce our R's - they've been officially removed from everything. I'm surprised there's even one on my keyboard.
You're facing the wrong way
By perruptor
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 6:25pm
If you'll recall, he was an incumbent with many years of election campaigns behind him when he lost to the neophyte Warren. I'd say she's the one who had an uphill battle.
As for "nice guy," do you remember him cursing at a school assembly?
There is an opening
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:38pm
on the Wrentham Board of Selectmen. Go back home Scotto. Wrentham needs you in its minute of need.
Why I didn't vote for Coakley
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:19am
She had a very sinister appearance. She had a battery behind her, and wires.
"Theres a...
By THE_WIZ
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:42am
Fragrance its here today and they call it.........CHARLEY."
Dammit - my write in didn't win!
By MassMouse
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:12pm
But I'm not sure Dukakis was up for more State Silliness....
"Fish.....
By THE_WIZ
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 1:32pm
Rots at the head."
A dish to be served with 4 fingers of....Isopropyl, NEAT.
I like this
By Kaz
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 5:50pm
http://www.wbur.org/2014/11/05/falchuck-united-ind...
I did too
By cybah
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 6:17pm
I'll be honest, I voted for him. I knew he didnt stand a chance, but I liked what he said and how he spun his campaign. "more of the same or a new direction". I liked that a lot. I just saw Martha and Charlie as 'more of the same". I wanted some thing difference this election. Oh well.. its back to "more of the same".
What's sad is, he wins now but (according to that article) his party needs to keep that momentum up to stay on the ballot in the next few elections. The Democrats AND Republicans have gerryrigged elections so much that its almost IMPOSSIBLE for a third part candidate to succeed without jumping thru so many useless hoops. Very sad that its like this.. very sad. Viable people have no chance at all.
I liked what he said and how
By Scratchie
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 9:07am
Yeah, he's, like, the first politician to campaign on that theme ever.
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