Joe Kennedy Lost in Eastham, and Walpole, and Newton, and Boston, and Littleton, and

Ed Markey shows that there's something to be gained by allying yourself with the left.

Beating a Kennedy in Massachusetts was always going to take Ed Markey running the best campaign of his life and Joe Kennedy running a spectacularly miserable race. Luckily for Markey, both things happened. Though Markey started the race as a huge underdog to get re-elected to his own Senate seat, the result was clear before the East Coast went to bed on…