No surprise at all, actually one of the most predictable ever. I'm not sure who voted him in as governor THREE times. Everybody has this idea of Boston as an ultraliberal haven, but that's not really quite true, almost everyone I knew growing up: largely working and middle class, economically liberal but socially conservative, usually blue collar Irish/ Italian/ Polish etc , usually Catholic, and even many Greek Orthodox Boston natives couldn't stand him. Including myself, though I will say that he's quite a bright guy. Had about as much chance of getting in as Fidel Castro would becoming the head of the John Birch Society.
