Nikki Tsongas Defeats Jim Ogonowski in MA Special Election

AP ^ | 10/16/07 | Glen Johnson

[Fargo Rock]

LOWELL, Mass. --The widow of 1992 presidential candidate Paul Tsongas defeated the brother of an American Airlines pilot slain in the Sept. 11 terror attacks Tuesday in the special election to replace Democrat Martin Meehan in the U.S. House.

Democrat Niki Tsongas of Lowell edged Republican Jim Ogonowski of Dracut, whose brother John died when his plane was hijacked and flown in the World Trade Center. With 170 of 195 precincts reporting, she had 51 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Ogonowski.

[Norman Bates]

Really, an embarrassing victory for Tsongas. Massachusetts is so overwhelmingly democrat. Excellent showing by our side.

[Non-Sequitur]

Second place is still first loser.

[vetsvette]

Good try for the Republican, but he had little chance in Taxachusetts.

[Henchster]

What happened to Marty Meehan?

[Oldexpat]

Good showing in a DemocRat state. She was so far ahead in the primary showing that he really did well.
Let MA have another liberal who will only do them more harm.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Way to look on the bright side there, Hoss. BTW, he was exactly your kind of RINO, and still came up short. Never, never works.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Damn. Well, it wasn’t a loss of a district. God bless the man who ran in a deep blue state against the socialist Democrat party apparatchiks.

[jwalsh07]

Massachusetts is a one party state and that's not changing in the forseeable future. Ognonowski couldn't beat the dem machine and neither can anybody else evidently since the entire Massachusetts delegation to the US Congress are dems.

But he tried which may not get points from you but it does from me.

Good on ya Jim.

[jwalsh07]

What happened to Marty Meehan?

UMASS for a few years and then the golden handshake, Marty is an expert at milking the trough.

[Henchster]

Thanks. I should have known a liberal big government slime would end sucking off another big institutional teat.

[theDentist]

Yes, overwhelmingly so, however, out of the big cities and their immediate burbs, in the the smaller cities and towns, Republicans often have a better showing.

[Norman Bates]

She had all the big guns come out for her - Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, even Bill Clinton - and still just squeaked by.

[metesky]

It’s the Merrimack Valley, whada ya expect?

[metesky]

I remember when Mahhhty was a hanger-on, a coatholder around Beacon Hill. Like Howie Carr used to say years ago, "Hey Mahhhty, make mine a regular."

Now he's been stashed at UMass? Just a couple of more years before he wheels off to Boca Rotten, eh?

[12th_Monkey]

And this is news that Mass votes in a Democrat...?

[Lancey Howard]

The place is a hopeless toilet.
This is why Mitt’s candidacy is a lost cause. Any Republican who could be elected by that toilet stands zero chance nationally.

[rlmorel]

I think the news is that it was so close.

Personally, I detest this POS Tsongas. Liberal Marxist in the Hillary Clinton mode. I was really hoping Ogonowski was going to pull it off...

[ConservativeStatement]

I saw a bumper sticker a few days ago: I'm already against the next war. What does that tell you? Facts mean nothing. Liberals are deplorable. They are soulless.

[enraged]

All I can say is woof.

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