Connolly, Walsh Taking No Votes For Granted In Boston Mayor's Race
Both John Connolly and Marty Walsh are campaigning around the city Monday, taking no votes for granted the day before the election.
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Both John Connolly and Marty Walsh are campaigning around the city Monday, taking no votes for granted the day before the election.
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All things considered, the city's mayoral race has been fairly civilized over the past six months. In the final two days before the election, all bets are off.
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There is absolutely no excuse for this potentially abysmal show of civic disinterest.
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It was hard to tell from Thursday's mayoral breakfast because both candidates have a habit of changing the subject from the tax and red-tape issues that preoccupy the private sector onto more populist turf.
There's a word for the way these two guys are thinking and campaigning.
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The city says that 113,222 votes were cast in the primary. That's 30% of the city's 368,000 registered voters.
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