Wine caves don’t win purity tests, but can they win an election? Perhaps the reference to the wine cave wasn’t the best look for Mayor Pete, but he bounced back from it pretty well. It was the slugfest everyone was waiting for, between Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, at the sixth […]
2020 Presidential Election
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Buttigieg, Warren debate money, influence
WINE CAVES don’t win purity tests, but can they win an election? Perhaps the reference to the wine cave wasn’t the best look for Mayor Pete, but he bounced back from it pretty well. It was the slugfest everyone was waiting for, between Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, at the sixth Democratic […]
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Joe “One-Term” Biden for president?
Someone has finally taken on the elephant in the room looming over the campaign of Joe Biden, who has managed to be the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and the most wobbly major candidate in the field at the same time: If the third time somehow proves to be the charm, and Biden wins […]
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Joe “One-Term” Biden for president?
SOMEONE has finally taken on the elephant in the room looming over the campaign of Joe Biden, who has managed to be the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and the most wobbly major candidate in the field at the same time: If the third time somehow proves to be the charm, and Biden wins […]
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What prompted Patrick’s longshot bid?
DEVAL PATRICK’S late entry into the presidential race is a compelling story for the same reason that Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels have drawn in readers over the decades. There is mystery at the heart of it. The 63-year-old, two-term Democratic governor has given the broad outlines of his policy positions and the pitch he will make […]
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What prompted Patrick’s longshot bid?
Deval Patrick’s late entry into the presidential race is a compelling story for the same reason that Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels have drawn in readers over the decades. There is mystery at the heart of it. The 63-year-old, two-term Democratic governor has given the broad outlines of his policy positions and the pitch he will […]
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A Patrick run lands locally with a thud
WE HAVE developed a reputation for oozing warmth and encouragement for Massachusetts candidates that is second only to our good manners on the road, so let’s go straight to the local hot takes on the latest potential favorite-son presidential hopeful from the Commonwealth. “Imagine looking upon this very strong field of candidates and seeing a […]
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A Patrick run lands locally with a thud
We have developed a reputation for oozing warmth and encouragement for Massachusetts candidates that is second only to our good manners on the road, so let’s go straight to the local hot takes on the latest potential favorite-son presidential hopeful from the Commonwealth. “Imagine looking upon this very strong field of candidates and seeing a […]
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The debaters and the teacher
IT STARTED WHEN former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro questioned Joe Biden’s memory over what he had said minutes before about automatically enrolling uninsured people into a Medicare-type program. Castro appeared to have either misunderstood or misheard what Biden said, but pundits are interpreting the exchange as an attack on the former vice […]
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The debaters and the teacher
It started when former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro questioned Joe Biden’s memory over what he had said minutes before about automatically enrolling uninsured people into a Medicare-type program. Castro appeared to have either misunderstood or misheard what Biden said, but pundits are interpreting the exchange as an attack on the former vice […]