[JimWayne]

A total waste of money. We need that in winnable districts, not one where the GOP candidate gets 10% in a good year.

Disagree with you. With this attitude, Croakley would have won the Senate seat.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Not so. MA was always possible to elect a Republican statewide. This single House district is one of the most true-believing extreme-left ideological ones in the country. Mainstream voters began pouring out of the district in the 1950s and were all but gone by the early 1980s. Pelosi (along with Dianne Feinstein) is considered an establishment Conservative in this district. You'd have to run a Republican who was a Stalinist in order to be remotely competitive here, and why would they vote for a Republican when they could elect a Democrat (or Green) ? Barring a change of biblical proportions, a Republican cannot win here, period.