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| Tagg Romney not planning to run for John Kerry's Massachusetts Senate seat | Tagg Romney not planning to run for John Kerry's Massachusetts Senate seat |
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| Tagg Romney has joined the list of Massachusetts Republicans who won't touch this year's special Senate election with a 10-foot poll. | Tagg Romney has joined the list of Massachusetts Republicans who won't touch this year's special Senate election with a 10-foot poll. |
| The Boston Herald published a sourceless report Monday morning that Romney, eldest son of former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is considering a run for the seat vacated by the new secretary of state, John Kerry. | The Boston Herald published a sourceless report Monday morning that Romney, eldest son of former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is considering a run for the seat vacated by the new secretary of state, John Kerry. |
| No he isn't, ABC News' Shushannah Walshe reported in short order, citing two unnamed sources close to the Romneys. | No he isn't, ABC News' Shushannah Walshe reported in short order, citing two unnamed sources close to the Romneys. |
| Is Tagg Romney going to run for Senate? You probably already knew this, but NO. abcn.ws/XSgPrN | Is Tagg Romney going to run for Senate? You probably already knew this, but NO. abcn.ws/XSgPrN |
| Any Republican with political ambitions in Massachusetts has at least two good reasons to sit out the special election in June: with little time to build momentum of the kind that would likely be required for a Republican to win over the liberal-leaning electorate, the GOP candidate will probably lose; and, in any case, the seat comes back up for election in 2014, so even if you win you have to run again right away. That logic was apparently strong enough to dissuade former senator Scott Brown, who bowed out last week. Also not running: former governor Bill Weld, former state senator, Richard Tisai, and now apparently Tagg Romney. | Any Republican with political ambitions in Massachusetts has at least two good reasons to sit out the special election in June: with little time to build momentum of the kind that would likely be required for a Republican to win over the liberal-leaning electorate, the GOP candidate will probably lose; and, in any case, the seat comes back up for election in 2014, so even if you win you have to run again right away. That logic was apparently strong enough to dissuade former senator Scott Brown, who bowed out last week. Also not running: former governor Bill Weld, former state senator, Richard Tisai, and now apparently Tagg Romney. |
| GOP #MASEN candidates dropping faster than Mitch McConnell's approval rating | GOP #MASEN candidates dropping faster than Mitch McConnell's approval rating |
| One Republican who hasn't said no yet is state representative Dan Winslow, who's been teasing the world about his potential plans. | One Republican who hasn't said no yet is state representative Dan Winslow, who's been teasing the world about his potential plans. |
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| Tagg Romney isn't the only name to emerge out of Romneyland in the churn of speculation about the election. A former Romney lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, also is reportedly interested. But Healey's performance in the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial race, in which she emerged from under Romney's wing to lose by double digits, is seen as a liability. | Tagg Romney isn't the only name to emerge out of Romneyland in the churn of speculation about the election. A former Romney lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, also is reportedly interested. But Healey's performance in the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial race, in which she emerged from under Romney's wing to lose by double digits, is seen as a liability. |
| Kerry Healey, now talked about as a GOP #MASen candidate, lost her last statewide race by 20 points. | Kerry Healey, now talked about as a GOP #MASen candidate, lost her last statewide race by 20 points. |
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