Yes, Governor Charlie Baker won re-election by a big margin. And yes, two members of House Speaker Bob DeLeo’s leadership team lost their jobs after challenges from the left. But what’s that actually going to mean for Massachusetts policymaking and politics over the next couple of years?
While skulking around the margins of a MassINC chess tournament downtown, Peter Kadzis and Adam Reilly put that question to Mike Deehan of WGBH News and Katie Lannan of State House News Service, whose answers contain plenty of deep #mapoli insight. Also weighing in: WGBH News contributor and scribe-for-hire Andy Metzger and Gintautas Dumcius of MassLive and the Springfield Republican.