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October 16, 2007Community activist Niki Tsongas, the widow of the late Senator and presidential candiate Paul Tsongas, won a narrow victory in a special election today to replace former Rep. Marty Meehan. Tsongas beat farmer and businessman Jim Ogonowski by a narrow 51%-45% margin, in a district that Sen. John Kerry won by 17 points in 2004.
Check out Real Clear Politics tomorrow morning for complete analysis.
Can Republicans actually pick up a seat in Congress this year? When Rep. Marty Meehan resigned to take over as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, he set up an open-seat race that has at least a few Washington Republicans taking note. Check out my piece on it here.
One correction: I write that a Democrat, Deval Patrick, sits in the state's governor's mansion. A reader points out that Massachusetts is one of the rare states that actually has no governor's mansion. Oops.