It wasn’t a presidential year or even a congressional midterm, but several races in New England and across the nation have been making headlines. There’s the mayoral races in Manchester, Boston, and New York City, tax cap proposals in Maine and Manchester, special elections in Concord and upstate New York, gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey, and a ballot initiative in Maine that would repeal same-sex marriage. We’ll get all the results and see what – if anything - they tell us about Americans’ political mood.
- Mal Leary, reporter and editor for Capitol News Service in Augusta, Maine