Offical Massachusetts Democratic Gubernatorial Primary thread

[WalterMitty]

9% in:

patrick: 48%
gabrieli: 30%
reilly: 22%

for town by town results go to boston.com

[WalterMitty]

16% in and the numbers have not changed much.

What are the three Lt.Gov. candidates like Walter?

deb goldberg is a wealthy woman who serves on the town council in brookline.  she has spent a ton of money on the race and was the favorite going into today.

tim murray is the mayor of worcester.  of the 3 candidates he probably had the least amount of media ads.

andrea silbert ran some sort of job resource center for women.  she campaigned as the middle class mom of the race.  she was thought to be strong in some of the more liberal towns.  so far that isnt turning out to be the case.

[WalterMitty]

chris gabrieli is getting ready to concede.

[WalterMitty]

reilly is seriously under-performing in areas he should be doing reasonably well in.

he is getting killed in middlesex county, despite having served as middlesex DA for 8 years prior to becoming state attorney general.

he also should have done better in working class places like fitchburg.

i also heard on tv that patrick carried gabrieli's home precinct in the beacon hill section of boston (with reilly getting less than 10% in that area)

[WalterMitty]

the republican senate primary is surprisingly close (not that it matters)

[WalterMitty]

Why exactly did Reilly crash so badly?

His campaign was slightly worse than dire.

not only that but gabrieli entered the race at the last minute and peeled away some of the moderate voters from reilly (which was his intention)

the reason for gabrieli entering the race is because he got upset when reilly didnt pick him as a running mate.

[WalterMitty]

this thread is about massachusetts.