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...Saturday, the liberals still had a shot. After months of campaigning with the aim of gaining a city council majority, the members of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) pinned their hopes on Alice Wolf. She was down by but 172 votes to veteran conservative Thomas W. Danehy, and, under Cambridge's arcane proportional representation voting system, there were 1562 votes left to be counted. They were votes that originally had been cast for Mary Allen Wilkes...
...they were," one local politician said, reasoning that if they were only fairly angry they would vote for Wilkes number one and then return to the liberal fold. But it turned out that they were really, really mad, furious in fact. And it turned out that they robbed the CCA of its best chance for a majority in years...
...worse news may be in store for the liberals on the school committee. Very early returns show progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates will have to fight to hold the four seats on the seven-member board that they won two years...
...between Wolf and Graham [372 votes] is just too great for her [Wolf] to make up," one member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), which endorsed both candidates, said when the count ended yesterday...
...turnout was apparently one factor in reducing the CCA's chance for a fifth liberal seat on the council; the six strong liberal candidates in the race divided up a liberal vote not much larger than that cast two years ago, when only four candidates split the liberal vote...