PETER O’DONNELL GONZALEZ had been eager to cast his vote in today’s primary for Sen. Ed Markey and Chelsea City Councilor Damali Vidot for state representative. The Charlestown resident submitted a request for a mail-in ballot more than a month ago, but never received it. Gonzalez has been working remotely from Washington, DC, where he has family, and has tried navigating the issue to no avail. Boston election officials told him […]
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Kennedy holds 17-point lead over Markey in poll
MORE THAN A YEAR out from the 2020 US Senate primary, Massachusetts Democratic voters strongly favor Congressman Joe Kennedy over Sen. Ed Markey, according to an online poll conducted last weekend. When respondents were pressed to make a choice, Kennedy garnered 42 percent support compared to Markey’s 25 percent. Businessman Steve Pemberton earned 7 percent […]
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Wait wait, don’t primary me
It used to be both polite and practical to wait your turn to run for Congress in Massachusetts. Party leaders and insiders frowned on impertinence, and the very occasional primary challenges that happened were rarely successful. That era is ending. We’ve seen two longtime incumbents unseated in the last few cycles, and the 2020 congressional […]
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Are you there, Massachusetts? It’s me, the primaries
Ahhh, the Fourth of July. When we come together to commemorate the beginning of the grand experiment that is America, celebrating government for and by the people. And in Massachusetts – the birthplace of the revolution – the gravity of the moment is not lost on voters as they march toward the purest expression of […]
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We’re on to New Hampshire
Well, that will leave a mark on Donald Trump. The consensus front-runner right up until the first votes were cast is now leading from behind. The Iowa caucuses handed him a humbling second-place finish to Ted Cruz that showed the bombastic billionaire under-performing his poll numbers, suggesting his support is somewhat illusory. But is it? Does the voting […]