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EARLY IN THE evening on election night John Kerry, candidate for Congress from Massachusetts's Fifth District paused amid the bustle of his Lowell campaign headquarters to survey the scene. "It's too early to tell how we're doing," he said then. "At the moment we can only get...
But in the 5th District, where favored antiwar John Kerry lost to moderate Republican Paul W. Cronin, and the 12th, where Republican William Weeks '49 was edged by Democratic Gerry Studds, the losers were particularly unhappy.
Kerry, who had been is the lead for most of the campaign but was hurt badly by the late withdrawal of Independent Roger Durkin, made a sour concession speech blaming "the politics of fear" for his defeat.
But an upset was in the making last night in the 5th Congressional District, as Republican Paul W. Cronin may have beaten Democrat John F. Kerry for the seal vacated by former Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse.
With 44 per cent of the stores counted in that race, Cronin was leading Kerry by a margin of 42.3.30 to 38,198. However, the Kerry camp said that they expected good turnouts in the cities of Lowell and Lawrence to put their man over the top.