Election, this Tuesday

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The Massachusetts primary election is this Tuesday, September 19th.

We have two parties with official ballot status in Massachusetts: Democratic and Republican. Both parties will be holding primaries on Tuesday - but there are no contested Republican primaries in this area. With the exception of Governor/Lt. Governor, Democratic nominees will win every office that Cambridge & Somerville vote on. This is the election that counts, more than November!

You can vote in the Democratic primary if you registered to vote before August 30th, either as a Democrat or as unenrolled (no party). If you registered for a past election, you don't need to re-register. If you moved in the past six months and didn't re-register with your new address, vote at your old address. Find your precinct and polling place at WhereDoIVoteMA.com.

Contested Democratic Races

• Governor: Deval Patrick, Chris Gabrieli, Tom Reilly


• Lieutenant Governor: Andrea Silbert, Tim Murray, Deborah Goldberg


• Secretary of State (technically, Secretary of the Commonwealth): John Bonifaz, Bill Galvin


• Middlesex Clerk of Courts: Bruce Desmond, Michael Sullivan

Research the candidates...

• Visit their web sites.


• For the statewide races, a lot of candidates have videos on YouTube - search for their names


• Look for coverage on the Massachusetts political blogs, starting with Blue Mass Group. Blue Mass Group's blogroll lists all the other MA politics blogs.

I posted this a few days ago on ljmass and massachusetts without my own recommendations, but since there are a number of people on this community who ask me for candidate recommendations, I strongly recommend Deval Patrick, Andrea Silbert, and John Bonifaz for the statewide offices, and I have a mild preference for Bruce Desmond for Middlesex Clerk of Court. There are no other contested races in the Davis Square area (Somerville wards 6 & 7).

Disclosure: I am John Bonifaz's campaign blogger. Bonifaz is a voting rights and election reform leader, running for Secretary. You can read my blog posts at johnbonifaz.com. See also last week's front page Globe article about this race - why won't Bill Galvin debate?

Comments

Re: i think....

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Very likely, in my opinion. But the November election is going to be competitive - I can't say they will win. I can say that with complete certainty for all the other offices except a small handful or state legislative seats far from Somerville.