It was a bad night for the Boston Red Sox, and it was a bad night for the Red Staters. The Sox went down to the Cleveland Indians, while the GOP went down to the Democrats in the special election for the MA-05 vacant congressional seat that Republicans had some hopes of winning.
It would have been a stretch for the GOP to take a house seat in deep blue Massachusetts, but the "Rightroots" put plenty of effort into the campaign, raising a lot of money for a former air force lieutenant colonel whose brother was one of the pilots killed on 9/11 when his plane struck the World Trade Center. In the end it wasn't terribly close, 51% to 46%, the winner being Niki Tsongas, the widow of former senator Paul Tsongas.
