"I think incumbents benefit from the senior vote," he says. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating, right?"
According to analysts, Sullivan, Galluccio, Toomey and Russell are those most popular among the seniors.
One candidate this year is trying to mobilize a different group of seniors: students. MIT senior Erik Snowberg's campaign has been registering students at MIT and Harvard through volunteers at both universities, according to Eric J. Plosky, Snowberg's campaign manager.
"We've been focusing on areas of common concern to students and residents," Plosky says, adding that Snowberg's campaign hasn't been targeting students exclusively.
Through "door-to-door, dorm-to-dorm" voter registration, Plosky says he expects a total of 1000 students to have been registered by the end of their campaign.
"That's a pretty big difference," Plosky says. Especially considering that the number of votes needed for election in 1997 was only 1,688, according to the Election Commission.
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