LOWELL -(Lowell Sun)- Democrat Niki Tsongas of Lowell defeated Republican James Ogonowski of Dracut today to capture the 5th District congressional seat vacated by Marty Meehan earlier this year.With 195 of 195 precincts reporting, Tsongas captured 54,363 votes, or 51 percent compared to 47,770 votes, or 45 percent, for Ogonowski.
There’s a lot of arms getting twisted out of joint as leftie blogs pat themselves on the back. Normally, you wouldn’t think that this closer race would be cause for such self -congratulations. I suppose they need a diversion from yesterday’s Randi Rhodes fiasco.
But in the end, serious analysis would be that for the Democrats to come so close to losing on what is arguably their home turf of Massachusetts, should put fear into the heart of any Democrat for what it says about November ’08.
Update: (Bit) Byron York goes into the details, and draws the same conclusion we did here.
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