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He seems nearly uninterested, certainly unmoved, by the potential link to a lineage of rich Massachusetts political history. He would be the first sitting state representative to win election to the U.S. Senate since Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. upset popular Democrat governor James M. Curley in 1936. He would also be the first Republican to beat an incumbent Democrat senator in a general election since Lodge defeated David I. Walsh (after Lodge returned from serving in WWII) in 1946. And he
He seems nearly uninterested, certainly unmoved, by the potential link to a lineage of rich Massachusetts political history. He would be the first sitting state representative to win election to the U.S. Senate since Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. upset popular Democrat governor James M. Curley in 1936. He would also be the first Republican to beat an incumbent Democrat senator in a general election since Lodge defeated David I. Walsh (after Lodge returned from serving in WWII) in 1946. And he…