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Capital buzzing about Mass. politics

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 15, 2012

If the Massachusetts capital city spends much of the winter consumed with Boston Red Sox hot stove chatter, the nation’s capital spends most of the year debating political possibilities with equal fervor. With former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Governor Deval Patrick a prominent surrogate for President Obama, and Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren in one of the country’s most prominent US Senate races, Bay State politics are very much a focus in Washington.

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