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The cloning vote landed right in the middle of the Summer of Science, in which politicians, reporters and a President have all gone back to school for a refresher course in cellular biology. This was political science at its most scientific--and its most political. It is no accident that...
Money alone will not win the race, though, and the candidates face another major hurdle in their race to represent the Ninth: voter turnout. With no other state or national elections being held this year, the candidates are on their own to get voters to the polls.
Moakley would represent the district during some of the most tumultuous times in its history. Two years after his election the community would be rocked by riots after a federal court imposed mandatory busing to desegregate the schools.
While the fire-fighter may represent the district that elected Moakley, Sayurra Ozawa, a 24-year-old native of Japan, represents the next generation of the Ninth. She has only lived in her Dorchester apartment for a year.
Reaching out across racial and socioeconomic classes is a lesson that anyone who hopes to represent the Ninth will have to learn, Dempsey explains.