That's not to say O'Toole and Galvin are throwback Old Boston hard-liners. (Although O'Toole is said to have signed a "defense-of-marriage amendment" petition, he is solidly in favor of same-sex marriage and has been for years.)
Nevertheless, six of the 13 City Council seats could go to Irish-American men, although only 16 percent of Bostonians are Irish-American, according to the 2010 Census. Just three councilors, or less than a quarter, would be black or Hispanic, in this city where only 47 percent of the population is white non-Hispanics.
And if Pressley is the one who loses the at-large race, the council could be without a woman for the first time since 1973.
Those results may not look like Boston, but that's not surprising if most of Boston doesn't even realize there's an election going on.
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