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Caucus scoreboard – what’s happening out there?

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This morning, Arlington had its caucus and Ed Markey won all 37 delegates and 6 alternates.

My Twitter feed seems to think Ed is doing well elsewhere, including a sweep in Brookline. If you have caucus results, please add your numbers in the comment section:

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  1. Senator Ed Markey won all of Wakefield’s 13 delegates and 4 alternates on Wednesday night.

  2. Lawrence appeared very organized for Kennedy, who was personally in attendance though I left before the caucus was actually called to order. Tewksbury did not appear organized, but a few of those elected were sporting Kennedy stickers. Pepperell ended up with three Markey delegates and a Kennedy delegate, but without having to ballot.

  3. Markey camp claims victory from these results … but without a total delegate count, impossible to say. Someone knows!

    Btw latest WBZ poll puts Kennedy up by 6 points; many undecided; tighter than a few months ago. Trend line actually good for Markey.

    From the Markey campaign:

    March 1, 2020
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Contact: press@edmarkey.org

    For the Third Week in a Row, Ed Markey Campaign Rolls Up Caucus Victories Across the State

    NEWTON—This weekend and earlier this week, and for the third caucus weekend in a row, the Ed Markey for U.S. Senate campaign reported big wins at caucus locations in all corners of the state, from Somerset to Brookline, Woburn to Greenfield, and Williamstown to Plympton.

    Voters again turned out in large numbers for Ed Markey, reflecting his record of delivering for cities and towns across the Commonwealth. Markey yesterday stopped by the Arlington, Boston Ward 5, and Brookline caucuses to catch up with voters and delegates.

    SOME FINAL RESULTS AVAILABLE FROM THIS WEEKEND’S CAUCUSES AS OF NOON SUNDAY:

    ABINGTON — MARKEY WINS
    ARLINGTON — MARKEY WINS
    BOLTON — MARKEY WINS
    BOSTON WARDS 5, 17 — MARKEY WINS
    BOXBOROUGH — MARKEY WINS
    BOXFORD — MARKEY WINS
    BROOKFIELD — MARKEY WINS
    BROOKLINE — MARKEY WINS
    CHARLTON — MARKEY WINS
    CHELSEA WARDS 3, 4 — MARKEY WINS
    CLINTON — MARKEY WINS
    DOVER — MARKEY WINS
    DUXBURY — MARKEY WINS
    GREENFIELD — MARKEY WINS
    HOLBROOK — MARKEY WINS
    LEICESTER — MARKEY WINS
    LONGMEADOW — MARKEY WINS
    MAYNARD — MARKEY WINS
    NORTH ANDOVER — MARKEY WINS
    NORTH BROOKFIELD — MARKEY WINS
    NORTHAMPTON — MARKEY WINS
    NORTHBOROUGH — MARKEY WINS
    PELHAM — MARKEY WINS
    PEPPERELL— MARKEY WINS
    PITTSFIELD — MARKEY WINS
    PLYMPTON — MARKEY WINS
    ROWE — MARKEY WINS
    SALISBURY — MARKEY WINS
    SEEKONK — MARKEY WINS
    SOMERSET — MARKEY WINS
    STERLING — MARKEY WINS
    STOUGHTON — MARKEY WINS
    STOW — MARKEY WINS
    STONEHAM — MARKEY WINS
    TEWKSBURY — MARKEY WINS
    TOPSFIELD — MARKEY WINS
    TOWNSEND — MARKEY WINS
    WAKEFIELD — MARKEY WINS
    WALPOLE — MARKEY WINS
    WALTHAM — MARKEY WINS
    WAREHAM — MARKEY WINS
    WAYLAND — MARKEY WINS
    WESTFIELD — MARKEY WINS
    WESTFORD — MARKEY WINS
    WESTWOOD — MARKEY WINS
    WILLIAMSTOWN — MARKEY WINS
    WILMINGTON — MARKEY WINS
    WINCHESTER — MARKEY WINS
    WOBURN — MARKEY WINS
    WORTHINGTON — MARKEY WINS

    “These huge caucus wins will provide a big boost to our overall campaign organizing effort, giving the Markey campaign an excellent foundation for our grassroots efforts leading up to election day,” said John Walsh, Markey campaign manager.

    “Voters are responding to Ed Markey’s message and agenda for the next six years–ending the scourge of gun violence in our communities, continuing his fight to find a cure for Alzheimer’s by 2025, and pushing for the Green New Deal, his effort with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to fight climate change,” Walsh added.

    In the previous two weeks, Team Markey secured caucus wins in the following cities and towns: Boston, Malden, Lynnfield, Bridgewater, Rockland, Fitchburg, Sunderland, Provincetown, Bourne, Chatham, Belmont, Conway, Lowell, Barre, Westminster, Yarmouth, Amesbury, Belchertown, Berlin, Beverly, Brockton, Canton, Chicopee, Dalton, Holyoke, Lanesborough, Lenox, Nahant, Natick, Reading, Shutesbury, Templeton, Weston, and Windsor.

    Senator Markey has also secured the endorsements of several major progressive groups, including the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice, the NRDC Action Fund, UNITE HERE Local 26 Hotel Workers, Common Defense, and Peace Action.

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    • Should we assume he lost the ones he did not mention? Also, caucuses are dumb and exclude working people, people of color, people with disabilities, and young people. We should just switch to primaries and ditch the internal electoral college of a convention entirely.

      • ANY and ALL Democrats are qualified and publicly invited to their local CAUCUS to :

        1. be a CANDIDATE for delegate to the state convention on May 30 in Lowell. The only
        qualification is that you be a DEMOCRAT.

        2. VOTE for the candidate delegate of your choice.

        CAUCUSES ARE NOT DUMB AND THEY DO NOT EXCLUDE WORKING PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE..

        GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

        • Attendees of the, caucuses and the convention do not reflect mainstream Dems–almost by definition, they are activists. And the only surge in caucus attendance is to swoop in and vote in new power brokers. Can we think of something better for the 21st Century?

          • Arlington’s 83.6% white, so not that surprising. Plus the party has an add-on process to make sure the convention is represented and minorities from towns sending all-white delegations have a better shot at being chosen. How about you stop sniping at us from the outside and come inside?

            • “Any jackass can kick down a barn; it takes a carpenter to build one.”

              Harry Truman

      • If you were to say, in effect, “Let’s do away with convention endorsements because we have a primary for that,” I could understand you. (Not sure I’d agree, but you have a clear argument.)

        But instead you seem to be arguing for doing away with the convention entirely (or perhaps having the Mass. Dems run a primary election to elect Convention delegates, which would be awfully expensive).

        I can’t agree with that.

        Also, I do not understand your ‘electoral college” analogy, since (a) the EC does not use caucuses and (b) although convention delegates are selected locally, they are allocated proportionately.

        • If you were to say, in effect, “Let’s do away with convention endorsements because we have a primary for that,” I could understand you

          To be clear that is what I meant.

          • Convention is a key test of organization and viability and the only step that requires you to be a registered Dem. Why shouldn’t the party “activists” (which can be very generously defined in this context) not have more influence in who represents the party?

      • Lowell was split pretty well down the middle, and of course there are plenty that haven’t happened yet. Plenty of the demographics you mention come to caucuses and it’s just for ballot access, which I doubt either candidate will have trouble with this year.

    • You can now add Framingham to the list of Markey caucus wins. Because the Kennedy folks would not agree to a unity slate proposed by Markey supporters on the Democratic Committee that would have reflected the known preferences of all local Democratic activists, So it ended up as an all or nothing affair and Kennedy lost. Many of us feel badly that some Kennedy supporters who are our friends and deserved to be chosen as delegates for their past contributions to the Democratic Party had to be shut out because of the Kennedy campaign’s refusal to compromise in the face of almost certain defeat. So it was a sweep for Markey — 34 regular delegates and 6 alternate delegates.

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