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...Vellucci, a local insurance salesman, crushed 16-year incumbent Michael Lombardi, with 67 percent of the vote. In the Middlesex County District Attorney' contest, L. Scott Harshburger '64 unseated 23-year incumbent John J. Droney, taking nearly half the votes in a four-man race, And Sen. George Bachrach successfully defended the Middlesex and Suffolk seat he won two years ago, winning a clear majority against three challengers...
...President Reagan's economic policies and by their determination to protest its negative effects. Martin C. Foster, chairman of the Democratic City Committee. called the election "a reaction to national policies, and the perception that some Democrats don't adhere to traditional Democratic policies." He noted that Vellucci and Bachrach publicly denounced Reagnomics, while their opponents had remained, for the most part, silent...
Changing demographics also had their effect. More and more minorities have moved into East Cambridge, and they apparently tilted towards Vellucci, helping throw at least two wards of that neighborhood to him. More white collar liberals have moved into parts of traditionally blue collar North Cambridge, Bachrach, who lost that part of his district in 1980, took it solidly this time around...
...Bachrach, Vellucci and Harshbarger all benefited from high name recognition, the result of having run for their respective offices once before. Bachrach had last time won in a stunning upset of a two-decade incumbent, and Vellucci and Harsbarger had each come within a few hundred votes of doing the same...
Fahey has challenged Bachrach's party loyalty throughout the campaign. The senator left the Democrats to run as an independent to avoid a tough, three-way primary battle. His opponent has attacked him for returning to the party after he won the general election...