I just posted an analysis of the Boston Mayor’s Race. It’s a neighborhood perspective of turnout and candidate results. It’s another confirmation that non-white voters were the key to victory for Walsh. No surprises for turnout, except in East Boston with the casino question.
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…that David Ortiz can claim 3rd place in this race by virtue of getting the most write-ins.
Clam Point is Ward 16, Precinct 2. This is the area between FreePort Street and Victory Road in Dochester (East of Adams Street)?
when in the Mayoral final with no incumbent, Roxbury and the South End both voted in relatively high numbers for Mel King against Ray Flynn. The two adjacent neighborhoods definitely weren’t on the same page in the Mayoral race, but voted largely in synch in the at-large Council race. Chinatown, Bay Village, and the South End were united in a futile determination to change the council representation in District 2.
Marty Walsh has made all the right moves since the election and I think everyone is relieved at not hearing all those ads and getting all that mail. Assuming inclusivieness, I think all Democrats (who, in general elections, don’t usually have a choice) owe Marty Walsh support as he moves to unify the city.
Look at Back Bay and Beacon Hill, and then look at Dorchester. Really striking.
such as we expect from Mayor-Elect Walsh can erase those divisions. The polar opposite of inclusiveness is, of course, Richard Nixon, who famously closed military bases in Massachusetts to punish the state for supporting McGovern in 1972. We’ve’ come a long way in 40 years, although few of us really remember the Nixon Administration, laid waste by karma.
I was getting the numbers for Michelle Wu at a precinct in Back Bay on the night of preliminary. Out of 495 votes cast Marty got 23. I thought I had heard wrong.