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Thank you so much,
David
Get better David
Election eve here in Massachusetts. Assuming the polls aren't wildly off, Markey should win easily. Moulton struggled to articulate a clear reason to elect him other than age. Which might have actually been enough, as the CT-1 results show, if the two candidates were more similar ideologically. But making vague statements like "we can't wait six year for change", when the change that you're offering is net negative, from the point of view of a good portion of the electorate, just makes it look like you're running away from your record, even to people that might agree with some of your critiques of the Democratic establishment.