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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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John Quinn | 29% | |||
Theodore Speliotis | 29% | |||
Joyce Spiliotis | 29% | |||
Kathleen Teahan | 29% | |||
MA | State Senate - Second Bristol and Plymouth | Mark Montigny | Democratic | 26% |
Harriette Chandler | 25% | |||
Therese Murray | 25% | |||
Robert O'Leary | 25% | |||
Anne Gobi | 22% | |||
Jay Kaufman | 22% | |||
John Binienda, Sr. | 21% | |||
Deborah Blumer | 21% | |||
Robert Coughlin | 21% | |||
MA | State Senate - Second Middlesex | Pat Jehlen | Democratic | 21% |
Louis Kafka | 21% | |||
Peter Koutoujian | 21% | |||
MA | State House - Fifth Middlesex | David Linsky | Democratic | 21% |
Kevin Murphy | 21% | |||
Eugene O'Flaherty | 21% | |||
Anne Marie Paulsen | 21% | |||
Anthony Petruccelli | 21% | |||
MA | State House - Third Berkshire | Smitty Pignatelli | Democratic | 21% |
Kathi-Anne Reinstein | 21% | |||
MA | State Senate - First Bristol and Plymouth | Michael Rodrigues | Democratic | 21% |
Marie St. Fleur | 21% | |||
Eric Turkington | 21% | |||
Brian Wallace | 21% | |||
Patricia Walrath | 21% | |||
MA | Mayor - At-Large | Thomas McGee | Democratic | 17% |
Charles Shannon, Jr. | 17% | |||
Daniel Bosley | 15% | |||
Frank Smizik | 15% | |||
Ellen Story | 15% | |||
Marty Walsh | 15% | |||
MA | State House - Twelfth Middlesex | Ruth Balser | Democratic | 14% |
MA | State House - Thirteenth Bristol | Antonio Cabral | Democratic | 14% |
Christopher Donelan | 14% | |||
Emile Goguen | 14% | |||
MA | State House - Fifth Bristol | Patricia Haddad | Democratic | 14% |
MA | State House - Seventeenth Suffolk | Kevin Honan | Democratic | 14% |
MA | State House - Eleventh Middlesex | Kay Khan | Democratic | 14% |
Stephen Kulik | 14% | |||
Vincent Pedone | 14% | |||
MA | State Senate - Norfolk and Suffolk | Mike Rush | Democratic | 14% |
Byron Rushing | 14% | |||
Angelo Scaccia | 14% | |||
John Scibak | 14% | |||
David Sullivan | 14% | |||
Tim Toomey, Jr. | 14% | |||
Robert Antonioni | 9% |