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...appears that a good deal of recent horsetrading between the city's two political factions--the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the loosely affiliated Independents--bas left Duchay the favorite to cop the largely ceremonial spot, Cambridge officials said yesterday...
Political observers around the city last night said that Duchay, a CCA-backed candidate since he first took office in 1964, would gain a majority of five votes from the three other CCA councilors and another from one of the so-called Independents in the City Council...
Longtime observers say the city is split between progressive and traditional Democrats. The city's high tenant population and white collar workers back the issues-oriented Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), which at the age of 42 is the nation's oldest municipal party. They are opposed by ethnics and landowners who support the more conservative Independents, who have controlled the city's neighborhoods for years...
...Four CCA candidates and four Independents currently hold the nine member City Council in balance. Then of course, there's Alfred E. Vellucci, a 38-year city councilor and the self-proclaimed swing vote who sides with neither faction...
...recent years. With a 10-year encumbent no longer in the running, a number of aspiring city councilors have jumped into the race. But be on the lookout for a new slate of candidates representing young, affluent concerns to emerge this fall that could oust one or two CCA or Independent incumbents...