Found an old map Al made in an old thread.
A close election, but Weld won Cambridge and P-town!
Compare it with 94!
No Silber/Roosevelt towns, it seems.
Also, Silber is from Boston and was President of Boston University until '89. Would Weld have won it against a different Democrat?
No, probably not against
any other Democrat. Silber was damned conservative by MA Dem standards. A real A-hole. Here's a taste:
In 2002, Silber ordered that a B.U.-affiliated high school academy disband its gay-straight alliance, a student club that staged demonstrations to publicize the deleterious effects of homophobia. Silber dismissed the stated purpose of the club -- to serve as a support group for gay students and to promote tolerance and understanding between gay and straight students -- accusing the club of being a vehicle for "homosexual recruitment." Silber denounced the group for "evangelism" and "homosexual militancy" with the purpose of promoting gay sex.[15]
This is in freakin
2002!! You can only imagine how he was 20 years earlier. Constantly flew off the handle at the press, etc.
This was one race I was more then glad to see the Republican win, and would've voted for Weld if I lived in MA.
