Word: states
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Massachusetts state elections are still a year away, but Republican candidates are already looking to 1990 as their best chance in decades to steal major state offices from the seemingly invincible Massachusetts Democratic Party...
Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and other key offices are optimistic that the new decade could end an era in which their party has played a small role. Democrats, on the other hand, are fighting to save their reputations--tarnished by the state's fiscal crisis--and preserve a 20-year rule on Beacon Hill...
...indicative of what's at stake in the state," Pierce adds...
NEXT November, 277 state, county and federal offices will be up for grabs in Massachusetts, and Republicans say they expect to have a candidate seeking every one. Two years ago, the GOP ran in less than 50 percent of the races...
...most obvious of these is the $500 million deficit in the state budget, which many have blamed on the Democratic leadership, led by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett...