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...more aggressive about responding to traffic and pothole issues than a CCA councillor," Dixon says. "By addressing the local service issues, the CCA has the opportunity to neutralize the independent potential and to come back and get support on those issues...
...Dixon also observes that the city's Independent block has undergone "tremendous changes" over the years, as patronage politics and favors for individual constituents have come to play a smaller and less accepted role in the Cambridge political game...
...four Independents currently sitting on the council, only two, Walter J. Sullivan and Sheila T. Russell, remain of the old-time politicos who used to dominate the city's political scene. According to Dixon, Councillor Timothy J. Toomey Jr., who often votes with the CCA block, epitomizes the new breed of younger, issueminded Independents who are cropping up in council and School Committee races...
...Dixon says that now that "it is no longer necessary to rely on the older, established family connections," the traditional independents may have seen their heyday...
...seems to want to go out on a limb saying the Independents will regain their majority or the CCA will strengthen its majority. "It's really hard to make predictions, because this campaign has been largely about mechanics," Dixon says...