Is Steve Lynch the Scott Brown of the Democratic primary for US Senate? The South Boston congressman is clearly the more centrist candidate in the race, but it’s not just […]
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Winslow: Mr. Big Stuff
The US Senate race is finally starting to take shape: US Reps. Stephen Lynch and Ed Markey are running on the Democratic side, and now the Republicans have state Rep. […]
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Senate hopefuls: woe is me!
The Democratic primary for US Senate is shaping up so far as a showdown between two Bay State congressmen. Neither Ed Markey nor Steve Lynch is exactly an electrifying figure, […]
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Can the GOP field a Senate candidate?
It’s no wonder Scott Brown is reluctant to mount another run for the US Senate after watching his already-weak state party base splinter into warring camps in voting for a […]
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The Bay State shrugs
The reaction to Gov. Deval Patrick tapping friend and confidant William “Mo” Cowan for the interim post to replace Sen. John Kerry was a muted “meh” in and out of […]
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Secretary of State John Kerry soldiers on
As John Kerry embarks on his “Thank you, Massachusetts” tour, his move out of the shadow of Ted Kennedy is complete. While Kennedy’s heart was solidly in Massachusetts, the Vietnam […]
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It’s the stupid views, stupid
Losing on five of six of anything will sting, whether it’s losing on a handful of scratch tickets or a weeklong homestand at Fenway. The pain increases dramatically when the […]
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Can the Mass GOP get their act together?
The Massachusetts Republican brand suffered more catastrophic damage, if that was possible, when Scott Brown and Richard Tisei, the party’s two leading lights, went down for the count in November. […]
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Murray raises money, doubts
Lieutenant Gov. Tim Murray has already told the world he wants to be governor. He’s putting some muscle behind those ambitions, outraising the rest of Beacon Hill in 2012. Murray’s […]
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Santa leaves a poll
Hope you didn’t spend too much money on Christmas gifts this year because it appears there will be no shortage of potential candidates knocking on your door for donations to […]
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Shoot-out in the GOP lifeboat
The battle now underway for the top slot in the Massachusetts Republican Party calls to mind Henry Kissinger’s often cited commentary on the pitched battles in the ivory towers of […]
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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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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 Bain of Romney’s existence
Mitt Romney, who says under his reign Bain Capital was a plus-jobs creator, has dismissed attacks on his record for more than a decade arguing the companies that went belly-up […]
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Is going rural the key to opposition-free wind development?
Putting wind turbines in places where most people won’t come across them might be the key to easier wind development in Massachusetts. Monday’s Boston Globe featured a piece by Erin […]
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Warren: Nowhere to hide
Last week Elizabeth Warren could at least point to a poll indicating voters didn’t care about the media’s obsession with her alleged Native American ancestry, but this week there was […]
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Mitt Romney’s ebony and ivory triumph
At first, Mitt Romney’s recent campaign stop in Philadelphia was a head-scratcher. A group of residents gave him a rousing Philly “welcome,” while Mayor Michael Nutter could only wonder at […]
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Warren takes a pounding but keeps on ticking
Elizabeth Warren continues to take a pounding about her alleged Native American ancestry, but does it matter? A poll released this week by David Paleologos of Suffolk University indicates Warren […]
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Deval Patrick to Cory Booker: I got this
Who ya gonna call when the young’uns can’t get the job done? Gov. Deval Patrick. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, he of the political twitterati and recent fun-filled “I got this” […]
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Return of the King of Bain
Back in January, Newt Gingrich did something so craven and bloodless, it sent shockwaves across the already craven, bloodless world of presidential politics: He cribbed a line of attack from […]
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You say you want an evolution
President Obama’s pronouncement that he supports gay marriage is a seismic shift in the presidential campaign, though it’s little more than a talking point here in Massachusetts, the first state […]
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John Kerry’s ambitious dilemma
Today’s Boston Herald bats around the case of John Kerry, who is a politician from Massachusetts. Specifically, the paper adds to a mountain of news clips speculating about Kerry’s desire […]
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Mitt Romney’s faulty gaydar
Mitt Romney has gotten himself into another fine mess, this time with his inability to stand up to the anti-gay wing of the Republican Party. Romney got props for his […]
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Bipartisan blues
The right-wing remaking of the Republican Party continues apace, and Indiana is the next battlefront in this internecine GOP war. That’s where veteran Republican US senator Richard Lugar faces a […]