Hi,
You are wrong. Extra high turnout of independents needed to offset the 2 1/2 to 1 ration of Dems to Republic which is likely. As long as inner city and college turnout is not overly exceptional. Dems will turnout in descent numbers and even if every single republican turned out and voted Republican would still need a large share of Independents to offset.
Are all of the college students back yet.
Don’t many colleges in MA have some sort of intersession break and the students don’t start toward the end of January?