Patrick handily won the right to be mauled by Kerry Healey this autumn — with most districts reporting in, it appears the only cities he’s lost are Blackstone (by 27 votes to Gabrieli), Braintree (by 545 to G), Dedham (by 16 to G), Holbrook (very close 3rd to G, Reilly), Methuen (by 74 to G), Milford (by 334 to G), Norwood (by 233 to G), Palmer (by 48 to R), Peabody (by 278 to G), Revere (3rd place behind G, R), Saugus (close 3rd behind G, R), Stoneham (by 148 to G), Tewksbury (by 150 to G), Walpole (by 31 to G), W. Bridgewater (by 43 to G), Winthrop (by 10 to G), and Woburn (by 152 to G). (Interesting set of cities that Gabrieli won — what do they have in common?)
By my standards I would say it was a clean sweep. Poor Reilly didn’t seem to have won ANY districts at this time, though his home town of Watertown has yet to report in.
For all the ballyhoo out there that Patrick “used the Internet” to organize, the truth is that he built a traditional grassroots campaign, something a lot of Democrats have forgotten how to do. I was there on Sunday in downtown Boston making calls for Patrick at Neighbor to Neighbor; in the next room were a volunteer making calls in Russian and the Chinese Progressive Association making calls in English and Cantonese. That’s grassroots organizing.
