Boston • The day before Ayanna Pressley rattled national Democrats by overwhelming Rep. Mike Capuano, a popular 20-year incumbent, in Tuesday’s primary, she brought her youthful canvassers to the campaign’s Jamaica Plain headquarters to fire them up for the offensive to come.
Pressley always delivers fire in public speeches, but the 44-year old Boston city councilor is careful and quietly analytical in dissecting electoral imperatives. In the midst of her oration, she explained her coming victory in one sentence.
"The district has changed," she said, "the needs have changed, and given what's happening in Washington, the job description has changed.