I’m at a snack table in the back of the exhibit hall at the Scottish Learning Festival checking my email, so I learned about Deval Patrick’s huge win — in the Democratic primary for governor of Massachusetts — from email from Freedom to Marry, an anti-discrimination-in-marriage group. Patrick won big. That’s fantastic news.

By the way, this is also a win for Internet politics. Patrick ran a grassroots campaign that’s making smart use of the Net. Plus, he’s been more direct and more human than candidates often are, which, right or not, I take as being part of the Net ethos. Patrick is going to stir up some powerful enthusiasm in this state.

Also by the way, the size of his win accords with what the polls predicted, which is noteworthy only because I’m told that poll numbers for African-American and women candidates typically are higher than their actual votes because people lie to pollsters not to expose their racial and gender biases. Not this time, though.

Go Deval! [Tags: deval_patrick politics massachusetts]

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