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...expected, Hicks did partly in Boston's black wards (8, 9, 12 and 14) but outpolled Moakley is Ward 7-both candidates' home district--by 800 of 8000 votes...
...state's closest contest Rep. Louise Day Hicks (D-Mass) held a paper thin lead over Independent challenger J. Joseph Moakley in the 9th Congressional District. But Hicks's strength was based on early returns from her stronghold in Boston, and there was a strong possibility that Moakley would overtake her in the outlying suburbs...
With about one-half of the vote counted, Hicks had 40.704 compared to Moakley's 40,496 and the 9620 tallied by Republican Howard Miller...
...district could be the black vote in Roxbury and the South End. Moakley should outpoll Hicks here. Indeed, the most recent poll in The Boston Globe shows Moakley leading Hicks by 41 to 32 per cent, with 11 per cent going to Miller...
...event, it should be an interesting night tonight at the G and G delicatessen in Dorchester, the traditional election eve gathering place for Boston Democrats. The Hicks-Moakley race is tearing apart a lot of traditional political alignments in Boston, and the 9th District, Boston's ethnic showplace, might never be the same...