Progressive Democrats of Cambridge - DFA

The good folks at the Patrick campaign are throwing a party to celebrate:

You've done the hard work--now it is time to celebrate!

You are invited to a city-wide party to thank you at the Daedalus restaurant & bar in Harvard Square on Sunday, November 12 from 4:30 to 6:30. There will be appetizers and a cash bar. The address is 45 1/2 Mt. Auburn Street.

Please RSVP by email so we have enough appetizers.

As you probably saw in the newspapers. Cambridge gave Deval an astounding 82% of the vote. Representative Alice Wolf was re-elected with nearly 90% of the vote.

Deval Patrick's 82% compares to 68% for Shannon O'Brien in 2002 and 73% for Scott Harshbarger in 1998.

The Cambridge "net contribution to victory" (Deval's vote minus Kerry-Healey's) was similarly huge--22,391. This was second only to Boston's--and higher than Worcester, Tim Murray's home city. A particularly bright spot was increased turnout in precincts with significant communities of color. In Ward 11, precinct 1, there was an amazing increase, in large part due to enthusiastic leadership within Jefferson Park and the Rindge Avenue towers, and great voter registration and Get-Out-the-Vote drives.

Email Lfield1007 (at) aol (dot) com to RSVP. See you there!