A Be’Like’Ted Election

Washington Post, by E.J. Dionne Jr. Posted By: GaGardener- Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:51:24 GMT Fall River, my home town in Massachusetts, has been a bastion of devotion to the Kennedy family since John F. Kennedy's 1952 Senate race. We were so faithful that the turnout slogan in my dear city could well have been: "Vote for the Kennedy of your choice, but vote." A factory worker with no political credentials got elected state treasurer in 1954 just because his name happened to be John F. Kennedy. When that JFK later ran for

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