[albie]

A Kennedy running is an automatic win, is it not?

[Peter from Rutland]

Not anymore.

[raccoonradio]

Could be but who knows (see below)...also it’s said Frank didn’t want to run again because he know the GOP would control the House and it’s no fun being in the minority party.

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A comment from the Herald article (not by me, just quoting):
“I predict that this Lord Fauntelroy will back out once he sees the polls. That’s what is arrogant daddy did in 1998, 2002, 2006 for the governor’s race. Then of course in the 2010 senate election. Years back the Kennedy’s could depend on the Kelly’s Rizzo’s or Kowalski’s to vote for them. Now the kids and grand-kids of these voters saw how the Kennedy’s excploited and abandoned working class ethnic people. They saw how rotten Joe Kennedy was to constituents back in early to mid-1990’s.They saw his arrogant and uncaring staff led by Brian O’Connor insult and ignore constiuents in need of help. Many had to go to other congressmen for help. The people of Barney Frank’s old district don’t need that type of congressman. Little Joey was born into a dysfunctional faded political family. Even his daddy tried to have him declared illigitemate by the Church. He went to college and daddy had to get him a state job.”

[haircutter]

A Kennedy running is an automatic win???

ASK CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHBERGER OR SUCH...IN NEW YORK

[andy58-in-nh]

Being a Kennedy got him into Harvard Law School, but it may not win him this district, which has become somewhat less hospitable to Democrats after redistricting, just as Democrats have become less hospitable to Kennedys over time.

[Westbrook]

> A Kennedy running is an automatic win, is it not?

Yes.

Especially in Massachusetts.

[mkboyce]

Nope

See: Kennedy, Caroline 2009 and Kennedy, Kathleen 2002

[Hemingway's Ghost]

A Kennedy running is an automatic win, is it not?

In this district, I think that's a safe bet.

Sean Bielat, however, might run, and he'd make a good go of it. I believe he's making a decision w/n to run in mid January.

[gidget7]

Maybe not, the district got redrawn which is why bawney is not running again. He thinks it would be hard to win.