So, we won in Massachusetts 5, maybe by not as much as we would have wanted but still a very sizable victory. The NRCC, rather than moving on from what should have been on ok we lost situation, is attempting to turn this into their Paul Hackett moment. Their MEMO is here, http://www.nrcc.org/... I won't bore you with most of it, however I think the bottomline issue is clear, Niki Tsongas got Deval Patrick's performance. So while we all wished that every open seat race breaks at or better than Kerry performance: assuming such performance is insane . On the jump will be a town by town breakdown but again the bottom line is this a normal MA 5th result and not one that should cause Democrats to lose one bit of sleep and Republican spin here is nothing but that total spin.
The MA 5th is made up of 29 towns.
Here are the Percentage break down per town with the Tsongas number first and the Patrick Number 2nd
Acton 64% 60%
Andover 48% 48%
Ayer 46% 49%
Berlin 45% 44%
Billerica 44% 43%
Bolton 48% 48%
Boxoborough 56% 54%
Carlisle 60% 56%
Chelmsford 45% 45%
Concord 68% 63%
Dracut 32% 42% [Republican Candidates hometown]
Dunstable 42% 40%
Groton 54% 48%
Harvard 61% 59%
Haverhill 49% 50%
Hudson 57% 51%
Lancaster 52% 45%
Lawrence 69% 69%
Littleton 51% 50%
Lowell 54% 56%
Maynard 61% 57%
Meuthen 45% 45%
Shirley 52% 47%
Stow 57% 52%
Sudbury 60%-55%
Tewksbury 44% 43%
Tyngsboro 41% 42%
Wayland 66% 59%[is a split town am not sure about the partisan effect of the difference]
Westford 46% 44%
To Summarize, Tsongas ran at or better than Deval Patrick Levels in all but five towns, only running considerably behind in her opponents hometown. So Yeah NRCC, The Future lies with Dracut. That or you are grasping at the biggest straw ever.