Lets Review…

Just to recap what has happened in Massachusetts news recently:

• The Democrats swept. Everything.
• Deval Patrick became the first African American elected governor of Massachusetts
• The SDP’s push to pass Questions 4 and 5 on the situation in the Middle East (see below, 11/02), thankfully failed; Somerville voted 2 to 1 to reject the questions.
• Gov. Romney’s plan to end tolls on the Mass Pike have hit a dead end. Combined with Patrick, the Governor-Elect’s reserve about the plan, it seems that those “who live west of Boston (will continue) to pay a disproportionate share of the Big Dig” (Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's director of communications)

In short: everything seems back to normal.