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Last Updated on Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:15 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:15
From Boston.com:
Local Republican leaders say their time has come.
“They call Massachusetts the bluest state. I think it’s just plain wrong,” said John Rainey, chairman of the Westborough Republican Town Committee, at a recent gathering of party candidates. “We are not the bluest state.”
Political analysts say Rainey has a point. While Democrats dominate most of the area’s communities, they said, GOP candidates have won office in the past by appealing to conservatives in the fast-growing stretch along Interstate 495.
“These are areas where independents are significantly higher and Republican registration is significantly higher,” said David Paleologos, a pollster based at Suffolk University who has worked for Democrats. “Republican operations have a bigger core base and a bigger mass of people who are open to the Republican message.”
Capturing those voters would be crucial to GOP efforts to fill seats being vacated by Democratic state Senators Edward Augustus of Worcester and Pam Resor of Acton, and Democratic state Representatives James Eldridge of Acton, Steve LeDuc of Marlborough, and Patricia Walrath of Stow, as well as Republican state Representative Paul J.P. Loscocco of Holliston.