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The second poll of the evening. This one by a group calling itself Public Policy Polling Company. It was a quicky automated survey on the Massachusetts Attorney General’s race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Jim McKenna. Here’s what was asked: Do you view Martha Coakley favorably or unfavorably? Do…
Read More »Usually we let the answering machine handle the “out of area” calls but tonight we picked up and ended up taking an automated poll from Rasmussen. Here are the questions that were asked: Is the country on the right track? Is Obama doing a good job? If the election were…
Read More »E. J. Dionne, Jr., writing in the Washington Post spells out the impact of new campaign finance regulations, thanks to the recent Supreme Court decision that unleashed “third-party” political spending. He says the moneyed interests have declared war on government officials who support policies that attempt to balance the interests of…
Read More »Earlier this week, Matt Bai, a political reporter for the New York Times, tackled the issue of voter anger, its causes and consequences. Bai pointed out that should the Democrats lose control of Congress this November, President Obama will be the third consecutive president to have his party tossed out…
Read More »The whole inside back page of the NYTimes Book Review today has an essay by Lee Siegel comparing the Tea Party with the Beats (Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the other Beat Generation writers of the 1950s and ’60s). The essay is a cultural stretch in many ways, but makes for surprising…
Read More »John Merline writing for AOL News has a contrarian take on the possible GOP takeover of Congress and suggests there could be positives for President Obama if the November election puts R’s in charge of the House and/or Senate. Read his column here. Most interesting to me is his comment…
Read More »I remember some strange things happening in politics, but never so many in such a short period of time as was the case this week. Consider: Paul Loscocco, after spending the previous months of this year running for Lieutenant Governor as Independent candidate Tim Cahill’s running mate, jilted Cahill last…
Read More »Uncle Dave does Facebook, “the movie,” in today’s column in the NYTimes. Read what columnnist David Brooks writes about the web phenomemon in his op-ed piece, and buy the NYT if you appreciate the writing. PS: Economist Paul Krugman today is so dejected that I don’t want to link to his NYT column about…
Read More »There’s a story posted on the WickedLocal/Watertown site about Nick Iannuzzi – an independent candidate for Governor’s Council in the Third District challenging incumbent Marilyn Devaney. Iannuzzi plans to appear on a local Saturday morning radio talk show to promote his campaign. There is a twist to the tale. Apparently Iannuzzi has paid $490 for a 25…
Read More »Last week when I wrote about the betrayal of Tim Cahill by his running mate, Paul Loscocco, I had no idea of the depths of the intrigue involved. Yesterday, Cahill filed suit in Superior Court against several of his former campaign aides and the Republican Governors Association on a variety…
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