Silvio Conti, Margaret Heckler and Paul Cronin, right? Curiously, all three were pro-life, as are Perry and (I believe) the GOP nominees in a couple of other competitive CDs in MA.
Those were the three, yes. Cronin was a moderate (and he had the notoriety of beating John Kerry in 1972, but lost to Paul Tsongas in 1974), Heckler was a liberal/moderate, and Conte was outright left-wing. I can’t recall if Conte was pro-life (of course, Ted Kennedy was pro-life until the ‘70s, too), although he did apparently vote against DC funding for abortions in the late ‘80s.
Yeah those are the 3. Go to back to 72 and also you also had Hastings Keith in the 10th and Frank Morse instead of Cronin. Rats have had majority of seats since 1959. Last GOP majority was during the 83rd Congress. (in between it was a 7-7 tie)
I think you mentioned before that Conte and Heckler were (”are” in the still living Heckler’s case) pro-life, that’s curious indeed, I never would have guessed either of them would be.