"I wouldn't have run if I didn't think I could win," he said.
O'Neill, to the amusement of some, endorsed Kennedy, the outsider.
"There wasn't any empirical evidence that the goodwill extended towards [Jack] Kennedy extended to the next generation," Bachrack said. "Clearly, we now know it does."
Although tarnished by scandal, the Kennedy name plays big here as do the hot-button issues of the day to the liberal activist community.
Harvard students, however, rarely vote in the district, preferring instead to cast ballots in their home states and localities.
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Undoubtedly, they are influenced by the eighth.
Their participation patterns seem to follow a maxim coined by an eighth native: all politics are local.