Republican Keiko Orrall won the 12th Bristol special election here in Massachusetts tonight. It's a GOP pickup.
Keiko Orrall (R) 2,135
Roger Brunelle (D) 1,762
That turnout is lower than in a 34th Middlesex primary. The Tea Party folks came out and the Dem machine didn't, it looks like. Do you know why Brunelle didn't get votes?
It's still not good news for Democrats in the state that Republicans now have 33 in the House. Massachusetts Dems should have motivated voters for the seat seeing at how successful they were with their GOTV effort last Fall. Orrall is quite Conservative, even for the standards of a Massachusetts Republican.
