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"GOP’s Chapman pressing Keating in 9th House district race; Funds scant, but support grows in US House bid" by Jim O’Sullivan | Globe staff October 07, 2014
For months, political handicappers have been following one congressional race in the state as the marquee contest, the North Shore campaign that has already toppled the incumbent and now pits Republican Richard Tisei against Democrat Seth Moulton.
Increasingly, however, strategists in both parties are focusing attention on a previously quiet race in the Ninth District, in Southeastern Massachusetts, where little-known Republican attorney John Chapman is waging a tightening fight against two-term incumbent Democrat William R. Keating.
Keating visited Democratic lobbying firms in Boston last week “letting people know that he needs help,” his campaign cochairman said, and some Republican strategists have quietly urged the party to shift resources from Tisei toward Chapman.
“I think people are starting to have a greater understanding of the dynamics at play in the Ninth, and they’re more beneficial than those in the [Tisei-Moulton race], and for that reason they’re urging people to take another look at the Ninth,” said David Tamasi, a Washington-based GOP lobbyist and fund-raiser with Cape Cod ties.
Against Keating, Chapman has a heavy financial disadvantage to overcome, with just over $127,000 on hand on Aug. 20, the most recent reporting date, compared to Keating’s war chest of more than $720,000.
Everything is framed in terms of a goddamn war in my war-promoting paper.
And the last time a Republican beat a sitting Democratic congressman in Massachusetts was in 1992. Democratic strategists say they are confident: Keating himself says polls show him with a double-digit advantage.
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An underfunded first-time candidate, Chapman, 50, nonetheless stands to benefit from political macrotrends: a Democratic president with flagging popularity and a competitive governor’s race.
He's unwanted just about everywhere.
See: Baker's Master Plan
Cooking up those rigged voting results as I type.
But Chapman, a former Reagan White House aide and Romney administration official, says the time is ripe for a challenge....
$ee why I don't care?
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