During the campaign between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, Brown said the best way to end congressional gridlock was to send more senators like him to Washington, people willing to […]
Election 2012
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Could Deval Patrick tip the scales at Justice?
The Boston-Washington axis is all atwitter about the Obama administration’s second-term round of musical cabinet chairs. Will it be John Kerry at State or Defense, or Deval Patrick at Justice? […]
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If Kerry bolts, do Dems have a replacement?
Massachusetts political watchers have had their eyes on John Kerry’s Senate seat for nearly a decade now. At first, the seat was going to open up when Kerry cruised past […]
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Warren the rookie
Like a rookie stepping up to the plate for the first time in the big leagues, Elizabeth Warren looked cautious and tentative in her first meeting with the State House […]
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What’s the story with Obama?
Barack Obama supporters are praying daily (many of them probably hourly) at the altar of Nate Silver. The creator of the poll-dissecting blog FiveThirtyEight, who was signed on by the […]
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Question 2 triggers a battle over life, death, and dignity
Early on, it appeared that Massachusetts would become the third state to legalize so-called physician-assisted suicide, with polls showing voters favoring the end-of-life ballot question by a more than 2-to-1 […]
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FEMA: How do you like me now?
If Katrina was the nadir for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, then Sandy is its brightest moment since New Orleans. Up and down the hurricane-battered Northeast corridor, local, state, and […]
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Romney’s Etch A Sketch for the home stretch
It was way back in March, about a million Twitter news cycles ago, that Mitt Romney’s man behind the curtain, Eric Fehrnstrom, announced what nearly anyone who has followed Romney’s […]
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Scott Brown’s partisan problem
The second most bipartisan member of the Senate has a Republican problem. And his potential GOP colleagues are not helping him any. If there’s anyone in Massachusetts who has not […]
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Jill Stein and friends fight the good fight
Quick: Who is the only presidential candidate to be arrested this year? Answer: Lexington’s Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, was arrested at the Hofstra University town hall […]
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The Herald’s own case of Romnesia
There were two presidential debates last night: one viewed by huge swaths of the electorate, and whatever was streamed into the Boston Herald’s new offices on D Street. Most folks […]
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Scott Brown’s unforced error
What in the world was Scott Brown thinking? In a campaign appearance in Taunton on Wednesday, Brown charged that paid actors were portraying relatives of victims of asbestos-related illnesses in […]
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Women — can’t win without ’em
Everyone seems to be going after the women’s vote. But nobody, it appears, knows exactly what the “women’s vote” is except that they want it and it’s key to being […]
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The Senate money pit
Campaign fundraising by Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown continues apace, which is to say it is happening at ridiculous levels. Brown, who used to have a campaign war chest that […]
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Putting a face on the opposition
You’d never know by the civil face-to-face encounters across the state yesterday that underlying many of these contests is a nastiness – in some cases, outright disdain – for election […]
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Brown and Warren head way out west
All things Western Massachusetts get a rare opportunity to shine when Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren take their campaign cage match to Springfield tonight. The candidates’ early vows to keep […]
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Mitt hearts Mass.?
It was abundantly clear who the winner of last night’s presidential debate was: Massachusetts. After years of pursuing his White House dream while trying to keep an arms-length distance from […]
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Debating the moderators
In one of the most fiercely partisan eras in American politics, David Gregory managed to do the impossible. Republicans and Democrats will never agree on who won Monday night’s debate […]
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Edge to Brown, but bipartisan image suffers
Both candidates for US Senate scored points in Monday night’s debate, with many analysts giving the edge to Scott Brown. But Brown may have undercut his image as an independent, […]
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Lynn, Lynn the city of substance
Everybody went to a fight in Lynn yesterday and a debate broke out. Partisans, voters and media packed the gym at the Lynn campus of North Shore Community College yesterday […]
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Brown and Warren ads nauseum
When the going gets tough, the tough go negative. Scott Brown played nice until Elizabeth Warren pulled ahead in four out five recent polls. Both candidates received heaps of praise […]
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Personality politics
The latest installment of the Raybo-hearts-Scotto show couldn’t have taken place at a more appropriate spot than Sullivan’s at Castle Island. Ray Flynn, the former Boston mayor, is hot-dogging the […]
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Edge to Warren
The media consensus seems to be that Elizabeth Warren handled herself well in her first debate against US Sen. Scott Brown, although neither candidate scored a decisive victory. Warren was […]
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Warren bounce
A Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll released yesterday became the third survey in recent days to show Democrat Elizabeth Warren ahead in her US Senate showdown with incumbent Republican Scott Brown. Suffolk’s […]