Today, Wolf downplays the particulars of her tough-fought wins, calling it a "hard primary" and saying "we had some differences."
But in 1996 the contrasts were stark. A 29-year-old man who had lived in Cambridge all his life was running against a 63-year-old woman who had settled in Boston as an immigrant.
"It was pretty black and white," says Amy S. Smith, secretary of the Democratic City Committee and a Galluccio supporter.
Wolf was endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, the city's established liberal group. Galluccio appealed to independent voters and portrayed himself as the candidate for working people.
The two were close ideologically, both pro-choice and opposing the death penalty.
The race came down to personality, Smith says.
"I like the way he approaches problems," she says. "His approach is, what can he do for the person, not for the problems of the world."
Wolf faced Galluccio again in the 1998 primary. But by that time she was an incumbent and she won by a more comfortable 900 votes.
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