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Observers expect Mason to spend about $200,000 by the end of the campaign, because only 65 per cent of the voters in the district recognize his name while more than 90 per cent know Drinan...
...race for Congress in the fourth district may be the only interesting race in Massachusetts this year, mostly because it's the only one that will be close. Arthur Mason, a Republican, is trying to unseat three-term Democratic Representative Robert F. Drinan in the district that extends from Brookline to Framingham and Gardner...
Both campaigns have plenty of money. Drinan and Mason had each raised more than $110,000 by the beginning of October. Much of Drinan's support has come labor unions and wealthy liberals, while Mason's funds have come from the Republican National Committee, the American Medical Political Action Committee, and numerous businessmen through out the state and the country...
...district is one of the strangest in country. The eastern part of the district, Brookline and Newton, is Jewish and highly liberal. That is where Drinan is the strongest. Further west in Framingham, which has liberal-Jewish, blue-collar and moderate communities, and to the far west are Gardner and Fitchburg, which are Catholic, conservative and working-class. Of the approximately 500,000 people in the district, half are Catholic, 150,000 are Protestant and 100,000 are Jewish...
...such a district, candidates must appeal to the Jews in the east and the Catholics in the west to win. Both Drinan and Mason have that kind of appeal. Drinan has earned a reputation in Congress as a liberal maverick, fighting against the Vietnam War and defense appropriations, and pressing for the impeachment of President Nixon. But Drinan is also a Catholic priest, so he usually runs strong in Catholic areas...