Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mindset" is the wordpeople use to talk about the state treasurer's race between incumbent Robert Crane and challenger Lew Crampton. Crane has been there for 14 years--back through the Volpe and Sargent years--and even if the state's electorate goes to the polls to elect a Republican governor, Crane and other Democrats who run for lower state offices always seem to stand pat through the storm...
...This state has become so Democratic that a Republican can only win a lower office if he can get a lot more attention in the media," State Rep. Barney Frank '62, a liberal Democrat, said about the race...
History seems to bear this theory out. A Republican candidate has not been elected to auditor or treasurer in Massachusetts since the '40s. While voters in Massachusetts may not follow party lines in a gubernatorial election, they almost patently vote Democrat on all other tickets--especially when they don't know the candidates...
Back in 1967 when Republican John Sears was running for mayor of Boston against Kevin White and Louise Day Hicks, Sears blitzed the television electorate with his campaign song--crooned to the strains of Greensleeves behind films of burned-out ghettos--"John Sears is the man who cares, he's the man who caaares about people..." White defeated all comers and began an 11-year stint as mayor; Sears later ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Suffolk County, then assumed the chair of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), those gentlement who curate the public parks around Boston...
Thaddeus Buczko, long-time Democratic incumbent, is faced with Republican opponent Timothy O'Brien, who entered the race after the GOP nominee dropped...