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Candidates are reluctant to say that--advocating the return of rent control is a popular stance--but the likelihood of rent control making a comeback as a galvanizing issue is faint. And while there was an effort to get a rent-control initiative on the ballot, even rent control advocates admit its only purpose was to get people to the polls...
...strategy was to put the question on the ballot not because it would win," said Glenn S. Koocher '71, a local political analyst, on Sunday...
...duty of every citizen to participate in the democratic process whether or not there are any important issues on the ballot," said a Lowell House resident and lifelong Cantabrigian who did not give his name...
...though it's not on the ballot, some voters still passionately care about the issue...
Margaret McCarthy, 54, a stay-at-home mother, said she does not support rent control and doesn't mind that it is not on the ballot because "a landlord shouldn't subsidize a tenant...