Every Celtic won’t be lacing up

But Pagliuca, known as Pags around the Garden, owns the darn team. So we have to ask: Can’t he get the entire roster? Is Rasheed Wallace quietly voting for Martha Coakley? Does Kevin Garnett have a political affection for Alan Khazei?

Among the sponsors of the event is Glen Davis, who was involved in a recent brawl that left him with a broken thumb that will require surgery and sideline him for several months. A Pagliuca spokesman confirmed that they were sticking with Davis for the fund-raiser, which is at the Lansdowne Pub and costs $100 a person.

Meanwhile, as Pagliuca is partying with the Celtics, US Representative Michael Capuano is having an “Open Mike’’ with his own celebrity: Capuano’s nephew, the actor Chris Evans, will be making an appearance. Evans starred in the movies “Fantastic Four’’ and “Push.’’ The campaign hinted that there will be “another special guest who is no stranger to public life or political activism.’’ -- MATT VISER

Between a stint early in the year as a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and her current job as consultant to Alan Khazei’s Democratic campaign for US Senate, she has spent most of 2009 in the Bay State.

Vilmain, a high-octane figure in many Democratic campaigns, has a political resume as long as her arm. An Iowa native who now lives in Wisconsin, she is no stranger to Massachusetts Democrats. She worked for Edward M. Kennedy in the 1980 Iowa presidential caucus, led Michael S. Dukakis’s 1988 caucus effort in the Hawkeye State, and helped John F. Kerry’s presidential election campaign in 2004 as strategist at the Democratic National Committee. She led Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Iowa caucus effort last year.

Her connections to Khazei, the social entrepreneur who cofounded City Year, date to hiring his future wife, Vanessa Kirsch, to work on the Dukakis campaign in Iowa. Vilmain is also a consultant to Khazei’s latest civic engagement enterprise, Be The Change.

The Khazei campaign also provides a Bay State homecoming of sorts for the campaign’s communications consultant, Michael Meehan, a Raynham native based in Washington, who for many years worked on the staff and campaigns of Kerry. -- BRIAN C. MOONEY

Flaherty had no money to battle Menino with television ads, instead relying mostly on mail and weekly newspaper ads.

For the last two weeks of October, Menino’s campaign outspent Flaherty $446,439 to $212,565, according to reports filed with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance. Menino spent $203,030 on television ads, $46,645 on radio, and $116,189 on mail.

Flaherty, by contrast, paid about $102,000 in mail-related costs to the Campaign Network, which had handled similar chores for the campaign of Councilor Sam Yoon, who was defeated in the preliminary and then joined the Flaherty campaign in the final weeks. Flaherty’s second-largest expenditure in the latter half of October was a $26,000 American Express credit card bill.

Since January, Menino spent nearly double what Flaherty did, dropping $2.4 million on his campaign compared with Flaherty’s $1.27 million. -- BRIAN C. MOONEY

But beneath the superficial precinct tallies, a more nuanced statistical postmortem offers Flaherty encouraging news despite the 15-point thumping on Tuesday. The at-large city councilor from South Boston made “significant inroads into the minority voting community’’ in the six weeks between the preliminary and general elections, according to MIT political scientist Charles Stewart III, whose idea of fun is a linear regression line on a scatterplot graph.

Many observers who pored over the election results have concluded that Yoon helped Flaherty fare better in liberal, white communities, but did not buoy his support in minority neighborhoods. But Stewart crunched the election returns with racial data from the census.

While the big picture did show that Menino continued his dominance among voters of color, a statistical analysis found another trend. Flaherty’s support in minority communities grew from 5 percent in September to 26 percent Tuesday.

“The good news,’’ Stewart said, “is that bringing Yoon in actively into the campaign - and I would also imagine taking Menino to task for not having enough minorities among his close advisers - paid off in terms of broadening Flaherty support away from Southie.’’ -- ANDREW RYAN

Earlier in the day, as he campaigned for last-minute votes in the mayoral contest, Menino ruminated on his favorite Halloween treats.

“I’m particular about the candy I buy,’’ he said, ticking off Hershey’s bars, M&M’s, and Reese’s. “Tootsies really aren’t as good as they used to be.’’

Menino, sitting down to lunch at a Greek restaurant in West Roxbury between campaign stops, was asked to clarify: Have Tootsie Rolls been surpassed by flashier newcomers, or has the formula changed? The latter, he insisted.

We checked in with Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. The company insists that the recipe for the country’s first wrapped penny candy has stayed the same since 1896, when Austrian immigrant Leo Hirshfield began peddling his Tootsie Rolls in New York. -- ERIC MOSKOWITZ