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GOP Sees Cause for Hope in the Fifth District
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| News Date | Sunday, August 26, 2007 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | GOP Sees Cause for Hope in the Fifth District
Republicans say open seat presents rare opportunity
Boston Globe
By Matt Viser
August 25, 2007
In 1996, after US Representative Peter Torkildsen, Republican of Peabody, was narrowly defeated by Democrat John Tierney, he lamented to reporters, "Massachusetts is the only large industrial state without a bipartisan delegation."
It has remained that way ever since.
But now, Torkildsen and other Republicans are energized by a race in the Fifth Congressional District that they think could finally inject a splash of red into the sea of blue.
Victory is still seen a long shot in a state where Republicans are smarting from recent loses -- they now occupy only 10 percent of the seats in the Legislature, and they lost the governor's seat last year for the first time in 16 years -- but Republicans say they have several reasons to be optimistic about the Oct. 16 election.
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