Elections

If you're getting tired of reading about wasteful spending and narcissistic politicians in Massachusetts, why not read about wasteful spending and narcissistic politicians in Arizona? The Goldwater Institute has just […]

Boston Mayor Tom Menino, who did all he could to avoid head-to-head sessions with opponents in past races, said today he'll agree to three debates with his challengers, and he acted like […]

What would the political geography look like if Treasurer Tim Cahill challenged incumbent Gov. Deval Patrick in next year's Democratic primary? It would be Faneuil Hall and Tanglewood vs. Plymouth Rock […]

We're still waiting to see whether Boston will have its first competitive mayoral election since 1993, but it appears that the political season is already a dud for Los Angeles […]

Marc Ambinder reports on the GOP's shocked reaction to the idea that President Barack Obama might work toward electing more members from his own party in the next congressional election: […]

Cape Cod and the Berkshires seem to have lost electoral clout over the past four years, according to preliminary town-by-town voter turnout in this month's presidential election. The map below […]

Over at Blue Mass. Group, Carey Theil rebuts pundits who say that people didn't really know what they were doing when they voted to ban dog racing. (See my geographic […]

While there was all sorts of talk before last week’s election about a potential “Bradley effect,” a much lower vote for Barack Obama than might be expected based on pre-election […]

This time it wasn't at all close: Last week Massachusetts voters rejected a proposal to eliminate the income tax by more than a 2-to-1 margin. Only 30 percent voted "yes", […]

In an interview in today’s Boston Globe, Cardinal Sean O’Malley suggests that Catholic voters in Massachusetts turned against Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004 because of his pro-choice stand […]

How did proponents of a ban on dog racing in Massachusetts go from a 2-point loss in 2000 to a 12-point victory last week? A higher voter turnout may have […]

Hub Blog has a good summary of advice for the Massachusetts Republican Party after an election that made it more irrelevant than ever. A lot of it is quite similar […]

The Boston Globe has corrected the voting results, and Wilmington actually went for John McCain with just over 50 percent, not 75 percent. So now the tiny Worcester County town […]

Massachusetts isn’t such an outlier in presidential politics anymore: In 2004 it was one of only two states to give the Democratic candidate more than 60 percent of the vote. […]

The one election result that shocked me last night was the 65 percent approval of decriminalizing marijuana in Massachusetts. I hadn’t anticipated the overwhelming support for the proposal in the […]

The Boston Globe has John McCain getting 75 percent of the vote in the town of Wilmington, which is 19 points higher than his next-best town (East Brookfield) and 28 […]