From The Daily Free Press:

The Sept. 14 primary produced many surprising results across the nation, but one of the more unlikely election outcomes occurred right here in Massachusetts: a successful write-in campaign.

No candidate was listed on the Republican ballot for attorney general, but nearly 30,000 voters wrote in Millbury lawyer James McKenna’s name, giving Attorney General Martha Coakley an opponent for the Nov. 2 election.

A virtual unknown before he entered the race in late August, McKenna needed 10,000 votes to qualify for a ballot spot. On Tuesday, Secretary of State William Galvin announced that McKenna easily surpassed that threshold with 27,711 votes.

McKenna said he got a phone call last Tuesday from his campaign as he drove to his post-election party at the Cask’n Flagon in Boston, informing him that he was likely to make the ballot.

“It became pretty clear early on that things were really pretty good,” McKenna said.

His campaign had calculated about how many votes from each town and city he’d need to reach 10,000.

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