Hennigan vs. Menino: The debate

Chris watches the debate between Menino and Hennigan and comes away more impressed with the challenger than he had been:

... So far she has been caught in the same dynamic that Peggy Davis-Mullen faced a few years back: upstart female challenger, underfunded and unable to get traction, and largely ignored by a news media rightly seeing her as a dark horse and by a citizenry who more or less liked Menino. The mayor, after all, has been skilled at straddling a wide coalition. But after watching Hennigan in tonight's debate, I wonder: do we have a mayor's race this year?