Was the ballot position, based on the party nomination, a large factor? If so, that certainly has implications for competitive, down ballot races in the future- work your butt off for the party nomination.
Did Murray have more of a presence at the polls, a better ground game, than the others? Again, with undecideds, it may well be the last name you see.
Could one of the women have beaten Murray, in a one on one race? In other words, did the women’s vote split, allowing Murray a win?
All of the above?
Some consolation can be taken that the candidate that spent the least, won the race.
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A lot of people I spoke with down the stretch thought a “Patrick – Murray” made sense for a number of reasons, geography being one of them. It may be that Deval’s apparent margin as shown by pre-election polls caused people to vote strategically. It may be that if Reilly were the leader, people may have looked for balance in Silbert (who ran a class campaign) or Goldberg.
Murray made the point that he would offset Hillman being from Central Massachusetts. Well, I suppose you could say the reverse is true also- Hillman offsets Murray. So it remains to seen what kind of improvement and by how much the Dems get out of Worcester County. Silbert’s case that she would attract the suburban mom’s was also a credible case for balance.
was to increase voter turnout in worc county to 100 k I believe it was north of 113k an Murray got about 70% of those votes. ( I am sure Frank has the actual numbers!!!) It was his great showing in the other parts of the state that I feel put him over the top. He has a message and knows first hand the plight of the cities and towns. That being said I want to congratulate Andrea Silbert and her campaign the did a great job and I am sure we will be seeing her agin in the future.
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I want to thank Frank and Hoss for their support, at one time i decided instead of bantering back and forth Id work a little harder for Murray, make a few more phone calls, stay a little later and pony up some more cash. I was like the majority of Tim’s volunteers and they had another big part in this.
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Lastly, although I am disappointed that Chris did not win I am not disappointed in Deval as our candidate and look forward to working towards our Novwember victory. I honestly believe having Chris in the race made Deval a better candidate,(though it may be self soothing) I feel his win over Chris is more legimate than a win over Reilly.
so onward …
I posted it several times and was told by Hoss and I think Frank as well, that grass roots is not generally enough to win this downtickets race. I thought that Deval and Tim were much better organized and had more soliders on the ground.
I thought that all three candidates in the LG race had their own thoughtful message. I think what also has been previoulsy stated that Tim’s message and being geographically based was a big help. There were many other factors that we all could “Monday morning quaterback ” about but it is really not worth it.
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What is worth noting ,is we need to rally around them both and work hard over the next seven weeks to get them in the corner office.
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It is a difficult task to quantify to what extent a Murray field organization increased turnout. Does anyone have numbers as to Worcester County turnout in the ’02 vs ’06 primaries? And wouldn’t it be fair to say that turnout is far more motivated and influenced by the top of the ticket and the extraordinary Patrick campaign? Overall turnout state-wide was significantly higher than ’02.
Hey, Murray won and congrats on an incredible GOTV/turnout effort. Membership has its privileges and he worked his support very hard and very well.
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Andrea Silbert ran a great race with none of the advantages of her opponents and was in it until the end. I sincerely hope she tries again b/c she’s a true leader.
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We’re all the big winners because now there is no way there can be a Governor Deb Goldberg in any way, shape or form.
I agree with you and what is most important is yesterday is over, and we need to work collectivley each and every day to get the Dream team, Patrick/Murray into the corner office.
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i like it