There is an upcoming special election to replace Rep. John Fresolo in the 16th Worcester State Rep. seat and Republicans are hoping Carol Claros can pull off a repeat of Leah Cole's 12th Essex special election win in Peabody to replace Rep. Joyce Spiliotis.
I did some looking at the 2012 returns for those districts, and the 16th Worcester is going to be a much hard nut for the GOP to crack:
