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...best we could, that's all you can do," Hogan said, recalling out loud the number of hours he had spent knocking on doors, standing at bus stops and leafletting shopping centers...
Cadzas, who directed Hogan's primary day operations, expressed similar sentiments, "I really don't know what we could have done differently. We worked the hardest of any candidate and the weather really hurt...
Both Cadzas and Hogan recognized that they had achieved their major objectives, regardless of what the final returns showed. They had developed a strong political organization and political base in Allston-Brighton. While running poorly in other areas around the district, Hogan had won his home ward by 1000 votes over McCann and the other major contender in the race. Cambridge School Committeeman David Wylie. During the campaign Hogan had developed a strong nucleus of 150 workers who were now loyal to him. Further, Hogan had proven to the political pros that he could run a first-rate campaign...
Given this state of affairs, it is easy to see why Cadzas and Hogan viewed primary day as a sort of anticlimax. They knew that they had done their jobs in the campaign and all they could do was hope that the people turned to vote. They obviously wanted to win, but both knew that Hogan would be back for another shot if he did not win Tuesday...
There was none of the helter skelter activity in the Hogan campaign that one usually sees on election day. At 7 a.m., when the polls opened in some parts of the district, there were people sitting lazily around the office and no one had a sense of urgency about what they were about...