Primary Post Mortem...

In some ways "that could have gone better".

Congrats though to Ayanna Pressley, she proved the pundits and the wise guys all wrong, she demonstrated a very thorough ground game through out her district, she won because she wanted it more, spoke eloquently & worked harder.  I predict her victory will set off a wave of primary challenges in Massachusetts come 2020, in particular Boston Mayor Marty Walsh had better get his ducks in a row so to speak.
Sadly, Incumbent Governor's Councilor, Third District Marilyn Petitto Devaney ran up a ten thousand vote majority in her race against Nick Carter. Exactly how she did this remains a mystery to me, unless sheer ubiquitous incumbency has an even greater power than previously measured.  Otherwise the woman has a genius talent for either boring or infuriating her audiences, but then marginal candidates like her can achieve tenure in office in these down ballot races.  If she primaried again next time her challenger is going to have to work up a serious GOTV operation and spend some money.
And equally sadly, Jimmy Tingle got skunked in the democratic Lt. Governor's race by Quentin Palfrey, this one is another puzzler unless Palfrey's last minute television commercial was enough to decisively tip the race in his favor. My only other theory is perhaps Palfrey "pulled an Ed King" and just made a better effort at outreaching and motivating the hard core progressives/Trump Haters.  I suspect heavy Anti Trump rhetoric will be Palfrey's go-to this fall not sure how far that can take us in a gubernatorial race but then I've been mistaken before believe me.
As for Citizen Tingle, I think we missed an opportunity here, Jimmy had a natural constancy among unions and blue collar voters, as a comedian he'd worked those cadres for years its not for nothing that there was a giant "Jimmy Tingle for Lt. Governor" sign posted outside Paddy's venerable pub in North Cambridge.  Its those "Tingle Voters" we need to pull back into our coalition if we hope to win this fall.
Anyhow I hope this doesn't pull Jimmy off perhaps contesting another race going forward, as a candidate he had many virtues and hopefully better outcomes can be expected, going forward.