over martha cokely, how mitt romney ran against the gang of three, the insiders on beacon hill and beat shannon o brien in 2002. but the stat that jumps out at me, i believe ed markey, who s been out, ed markey, a 36 year veteran in the house, it s one of the longest in the house before moving to the senate. he lives in the d.c. area, a house in mass. there s a story he doesn t live there anymore. it s the kind of thing, if people start if the race captures public interest, if the spotlight is turned up on markey, he has the markers of insiderdom that riles up people. this is the guy the machine spit out at us. he doesn t live here anymore, we want something new. gomez, there s appeal there.
broadly, what do you find the most interesting thing about this race? looking at history here, how does this fit in? massachusetts, yes, deeply blue state, 13% of the registered population is republican, but one of the consequences of sort of one party rule is every once or twice every decade, i d say, the electorate of massachusetts gets riled up, gets cranky about one party rule and takes it out on a democratic candidate and that s sort of how scott brown got in over martha cokely, how mitt romney ran against the gang of three, the insiders on beacon hill and beat shannon o brien in 2002. but the stat that jumps out at me, i believe ed markey, who s been in the house for 1976, 36-year veteran of the house, i think that would be the longest tenure ever in the house before moving on to the senate. kadyrbayev kadyrbayev dias azamat as mat azamat tazhayakov phillipos robel robel.