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Though most of the attention in the Union's most liberal state has focused on the tight primary battle between Democrats Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry and U.S. Rep. James M. Shannon (D-Lawrence), the Republicans, with the not-insignificant help of President Reagan, may retake the seat held by...
Connolly and Bartley are considered more conservative than Shannon and Kerry.
Kerry clearly is vulnerable, although he appears still to be in good shape in 1982, many say he would not have beaten the popular Evelyn Murphy in the lieutenant governor primary race, had not four other candidates, two of them women, been running.
But Kerry has strong liberal credentials, and is best known as a Vietnam War hero who led the anti-war movement upon his return, Shannon, a protege of House speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. Jr. (D-Cambridge), also has a strong liberal record in congress--he received a 96...
The result, said Goldman, will be a campaign that will concentrate on the minimal differences between the two, rather than on broader issues Kerry has labeled Shannon an establishment toady, though neither seems to have sprung a prominence from a wheatfield near Williamstown. Despite claims to the contrary, the Senate...