Hate to tell you this, but Martha stepped on her own self in the general (look it up) with a series of idiotic misstatements (the Fenway Park ones screwed her and mobilized her MUCH BETTER FUNDED opponent's base) plus she was fighting the Commonwealth's "Bros Before..." glass ceiling. That stank stuck to her in her gubernatorial run. And, to make matters WORSE for her, on the ballot for her Senate run appeared an (I) candidate named JOE KENNEDY (and we have one here, and he has a following, but this one wasn't that guy--but he managed to steal tens of thousands of votes from her).
EW broke through (the FIRST WOMAN EVER to be sent to the Senate from the Commonwealth), but if you think that was easy sailing you are dead wrong. It took a FORTUNE in out-of-state money, (lesson learned from the Coakley-Brown contest, where Brown's campaign floated on out-of-state dollars) and it took old farts like me coming out of canvassing/precinct walking/smiling-and-dialing retirement to deliver bodies to the polls. And even at that -- it was neck-and-neck. It should have been a cakewalk.
Getting the most votes does mean you're going to win--provided you don't commit seppuku in the general contest and provided you can compete with that (waaaah!) Big, Ugly, Corporate Money like Warren enjoyed when she smacked down Brown.
#FeelTheMath.
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