This Tsucks: Tsongas Declares Victory
The campaign of Democrat Niki Tsongas declared victory over Republican Jim Ogonowski at about 9:10 tonight, and the Associated Press sent a bulletin five minutes later declaring Tsongas the victor.
With 86 percent of precincts reporting, she had 51 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Ogonowski.
A sad day for the Fifth District, for Massachusetts…
UPDATE: Patrick Ruffini chimes in:
The change message worked. Though conservative by Massachusetts standards, this is a district that went 17 points Democrat in the last Presidential election. After 2006, is there any Republican-represented district in America that Democratic? Victory would have been a real miracle. But take a powerful citizen-candidate like Ogonowski and put him in a purple or leans-D district, and we can win.Follow us on Twitter
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Posted by Matt Margolis on Oct 16th, 2007 in MA-05 Special Election | 5 comments posted
TAGS: Jim Ogonowski, Niki Tsongas.
TAGS: Jim Ogonowski, Niki Tsongas.
Matt Margolis is co-author (with Mark Noonan) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at The Buffalo Bean. Follow Matt on Twitter.
Wow running because of your dead brother didn’t work. Hey pattrick don’t you know that drugs are illegal.
JFK/RFK
Paul Wellstone
Jean Carnahan
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If this ends up 51% to 46%, shame on the national Republican party and Republican PAC’s for not getting behind Ogonowski with a big TV ad buy. Boston TV has had commercials for Tsongas running around the clock for the past three weeks. It’s amazing it was still thisclose. All Ogonowski needed was one good ad, run repeatedly, highlighting Tsongas’ outrageous positions on in-state tuition and her plan for driver’s licenses for illegals. It’s little consolation, but Ogonowski deserves a ton of credit for coming as close as he did.
Who knows what a year might bring? Get Tsongas on the record with some ultra-liberal votes in Congress combined with a repugant Dem. ticket of Clinton-Obama and continued improvement in Iraq and Ogonowski might have the last laugh. God bless you, Jim!
But running because of your dead husband did.