MA-3: After Tsongas

[Meatball Ron]

Having lived in this district: the issue with nominating a candidate substantially to the left of Tsongas isn't that they'd risk losing to a moderate Republican. Rather, it's simply that the Democratic primary voters in the district wouldn't want a candidate like that. As some have alluded to earlier in the thread, the Democrats here are moderate/pragmatic types. In fact, we can realistically expect a nominee less liberal than Tsongas.

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