Joe Kennedy has not yet articulated a good reason why voters should pick him over the incumbent, Ed Markey
with plentiful red hair talking in front of a small crowd and several television cameras in Villa Victoria housing development in Boston’s South End, a young man stopped and asked what was going on. Someone told him, “He’s running for election.” “For president?” he inquired. “No, Senate,” he was told. “Is he famous or something?” “He’s a Kennedy.” The young man nodded, turned around and carried on with his day.
“For him, it’s a smart gamble,” says Scott Ferson, a political consultant and Ted Kennedy’s former press secretary. In the past Mr Kennedy would have been a shoo-in for the next available open slot, but the politics and demography of Massachusetts have changed in the decade since Mr Kennedy’s great-uncle Teddy was the Senate’s liberal lion.
Some suspect Mr Kennedy feels entitled to the seat because, in a way, he was bred for politics. His great-great-grandfather was a congressman and a Boston mayor. His father served in Congress for 12 years. His grandfather, Robert, was attorney-general and a senator. He is the great-nephew of a president, and his great-uncle Ted was a Massachusetts senator for 47 years.
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