"Those are the people who are looking for Sheila's vote," Ackermann says.
"They're scrambling to pick it up."
Koocher agreed that Maher and Goodwin will benefit the most from Russell's exit, but added that Galluccio and incumbent Michael A. Sullivan will benefit as well from the bevy of Russell's "old neighborhood" supporters who tend to support incumbents.
With Duehay gone, Koocher expects Born to receive many of Duehay's votes. She received the majority of Duehay's surplus votes in the 1997 election.
"That white middle-aged crowd tends to stick with the white middle-aged candidates," Koocher says.
Personal preferences like these may overcome neighborhood-base voting, Ackermann says, as Cambridge politics become more broadly based than before.
"It's not as geographical as it used to be," Ackermann says.
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