Vicki Kennedy Billboard Gives Hope to Democrats
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A billboard-sized photo of Vicki Kennedy alongside a major highway entering Boston has given mixed signals to Kennedy and Democrat supporters looking for partisan change in Massachusetts.
Displayed as an advertisement to join Kennedy at a mayoral event on immigrants and diversity, some see the billboard as an effort to maintain Kennedy's profile for a 2010 campaign against Republican Sen. Scott Brown.
Brown, who claimed the senate seat Edward Kennedy had held for over half a century in January, is considered the most popular politician in Massachusetts according to recent polls, but Democrats would like to see opposition from the Kennedy widow.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"A lot of Democrats are looking for a superstar, someone who is not a mere politician," Republican political consultant Todd Domke said. "Vicki Kennedy is among the few who would be viewed as a front-runner."
Kennedy previously declined to run against Brown in his recent election, and denied a 2012 campaign last summer when she told The Boston Globe that she was uninterested, saying "there's only one Sen. Kennedy."