In a major upset in one of the most progressive congressional districts in the country, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley is beating longtime incumbent Mike Capuano, WGBH reports.
Pressley, who has no Republican opposition, will become the first woman of color to represent Massachusetts in Congress.
Her victory in the Seventh District means that perennial candidate Althea Garrison will become an at-large city councilor because she came in fifth in the 2017 city elections.
Capuano had been in Congress for 20 years.
In contrast to the Seventh District, Steve Lynch is coasting to victory in the Eighth over game designer Brianna Wu and some other guy.
Unlike Pressley, Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim won't be moving up - he lost, pretty convincingly, to incumbent Secretary of State Bill Galvin.
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Voting Rights Act & Gerrymandering
By ScottB
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 11:53am
The odd shape of the 8th district is partly a result of gerrymandering to create the 7th as a majority-minority district, and partly a result of gerrymandering to ensure that neither the 8th or 9th is likely to go R.
Check the linked map options
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 1:23pm
The stats for the optional reconfigured districts show that isn't lost. They don't have to gerrymander it to get that district at all - they just have to stop configuring things around the residences of current reps.
It may well be an asset.
By Rob
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 5:43pm
It may well be an asset.
It's probably also an asset to be a non-controversial, reasonably popular, democratic incumbent.
She beat him anyway.
A word on Zakim, if I could.
By section77
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 11:27am
I love that his central issue was day-of voter registration. Why is that a need? I know that it is done else-where in the country, but it just seems like an invitation to voter fraud. Of course that was just a sign post on the road to voting remotely and not having to go to the polls (uncool dude). An even worse idea, but one that tickles the imagination of those who should know better. They just pretend they are advocating for some blue collar worker who can't make it to the polls once every 2 years. ("Or how about the day off? Can we just have a day off to vote?") Its all about ease but let's pretend its progressive.
To sum up his constituency were people who see voting as a bother and something to be avoided. But he needed them to vote for him in the primary to get there. You gotta admit, that's pretty funny. Oh, and taking money from the people you had to regulate was a knee-slapper too.
Yeah, no
By lbb
Thu, 09/06/2018 - 9:24am
There's no evidence to support this.
Reminder: "voter fraud" is a vote or attempt to vote by someone who is not entitled to do so. Showing up without the type of ID that someone in charge likes is not voter fraud. Not having filled out certain papers x days before the election is not voter fraud.
You'll have to speak to me from the depths of your experience talking to potential voters. In canvassing, I talked to quite a few real live human beings who were unable to vote because they had to work. Not all were blue collar workers, but many of them had a lengthy commute and/or were working two jobs, with the result that they simply couldn't make it to the polls.
You believe that lie if you want to, son, but don't try to sell it to the grownups.
People do what they think is important.
By section77
Thu, 09/06/2018 - 12:42pm
I got up an hour early to vote before I went to work. If you know you can't do that you make plans for an absentee ballot. I guarantee you these people would find a way to make time for anything else they cared about. I think they can make it down to the local polling place one Tuesday night every 2 years.
But some just find that to be déclassé. My canvassing comes from watching my own various social media feeds from people who can't be bothered to vote because Tuesday is trivia night (they need me for the science questions!), and why can't I just vote by phone? Again, dangerous to democracy to do that, but it sounds cool.
Good to see..
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 12:12pm
that after I fled this place, the same incessant nonsense between the same posters arguing the same points over and over and over again still continues unabated.
Me, I'll just stick to the streets and people with a clue.
Did you try
By Roman
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 12:23pm
the salted licorice?
Stick to the streets?
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 12:39pm
Maybe we should call DPW if you are sticking to the streets and no molasses spills have been reported ... unless this is your own bodily fluids causing the problem.
Goodbye without leaving
By Belmont
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 1:41pm
And yet here you are again. I'm sorry to report that I don't think anyone noticed you were "gone".
Congressional districts are grotesquely gerrymandered
By anon
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 3:01pm
As are other political districts in MA such as counties.
IMO she actually owes her primary win to primarily white progressives who are over-represented in gentrified JP and a few other neighborhoods.
This primary win shows Democrat's fringe who are, again, overly influentual in primaries, have lurched to the far left.
okay
By anon
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 4:27pm
you put in your GOP talking points for the day.
do they give you extra if you use the specific phrase "lurch to the (far) left"?
its sad how try-hard the right is being about making Pressley seem "radical" when she is most definitely, absolutely not.
Who said it's the right?
By Boston_Bloke
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 11:15pm
The far left always assumes those who challenge them are neo-Nazis or members of the alt right . Newflash: much of the criticism in this forum comes from other liberals who haven't drunk the Kook-Aid.
"drunk the kook-aid"?
By anon
Thu, 09/06/2018 - 8:28am
how cutting edge and with it you are.
what next, you going to call me a "moonbat"?
keep up the good work.
Redistricting tactics obscure Names of Bordering Streets.
By theszak
Wed, 09/05/2018 - 5:14pm
Redistricting is hampered by lack of good useful graphics and good useful maps allowing more gerrymandering in the process of Redistricting. Maps are needed that clearly indicate the Names of Bordering Streets between adjacent neighboring Districts for folks nearby Bordering Streets and for upcoming Redistricting. Current maps obscure Names of Bordering Streets either leaving out Streets' Names or including all Names making it difficult to recognize only Names of Bordering Streets between adjacent neighboring Districts.
Got numbers?
By lbb
Thu, 09/06/2018 - 9:26am
If that's so, you'll be able to show polling data of "primarily white progressives". Oh wait, you can't, because there's a secret ballot. Well, enjoy your dogwhistling fantasy!
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