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T Time: Week of February 26, 2010
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Published 21:07, November the 4th, 2009
 

Areas of color key to Menino victory

By neighborhood

Five neighborhoods with the biggest jump in ballots cast from 1993 to 2009:

  • Mattapan-Franklin Field: 2.02 percent increase
  • Grove Hall-Dudley Square: 1.58 percent
  • South End: 1.03 percent
  • Fields Corner-St. Mark’s: 0.78 percent
  • Jamaica Plain: 0.73 percent


Five neighborhoods with the biggest dip in ballots cast from 1993 to 2009:

  • East Boston: -1.80 percent
  • South Boston: -1.42 percent
  • West Roxbury: -1.35 percent
  • Neponset/Savin Hill: -1.30 percent
  • Brighton: -1.06 percent
 

Mayor Thomas Menino was able to fend off challenger Michael Flaherty in large part due to his success in communities of color, according to a MassVOTE report released yesterday.

Within the more than 111,000 ballots cast Tuesday — the most in a mayoral election since 1993 — were many for Menino in Mattapan (74.2 percent), Grove Hall and Dudley Square (71.5 percent), Codman Square (70.8 percent) and Uphams Corner (67.5 percent).

“Communities of color were clearly a bedrock of support for Menino — they were an essential part of his winning coalition,” said Avi Green, executive director of MassVOTE. “Flaherty worked hard to make inroads in Roxbury and other neighborhoods, but ultimately was not able to win over enough African-American voters.”

In addition to his native South Boston, which gave him 68.7 percent of the vote, Flaherty took four other neighborhoods, including the Back Bay, Charlestown, parts of Jamaica Plain and the Neponset-Savin Hill region.

Menino won the remaining 17 neighborhoods, including 72.2 percent of the vote in his native Hyde Park.

 
 
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MMMpod
The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.