Media impact on the special election

[SteveOrdinetz]

At 09:54 PM 1/22/2010, Garrett Wollman wrote:


>I was talking with Scott on Tuesday night, and he pointed out to me
>that traditionally Republican parts of Western Mass. voted
>overwhelmingly for Coakley over Brown, whereas people within the
>Boston market went the other way.

Excuse the stupid question, but I've lived in N.H. most of my life 
and Mass. politics is peripheral at best.  What encompasses the 
district that was former Ted Kennedy's?  Western Mass, the Cape & 
Boston area all one district?  Talk about gerrymandering!