The media drops names all the time, but here’s who is actually doing the prep-work for a presidential run.
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Unicorns. Fairies. Dragons. Moderate Republicans. What Do These All Have in Common?
Anyone who was surprised wasn’t paying attention. The endorsement of Donald Trump ally Geoff Diehl —the character who’s trying to unseat Senator Elizabeth Warren—by alleged moderate Republican and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker was as predictable as the outcome of former UFC star Ronda Rousey’s WWE matches. Party loyalty is thicker than water, and the idea […]
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Warren’s Likely GOP Challenger: A Pain to Diehl With
Unlike John McCain, here’s one fellow who will never be confused for a statesman: [Massachusetts] State Representative Geoff Diehl, in an effort to ramp up immigration-focused attacks on US Senator Elizabeth Warren, [has] released a campaign video [asserting] that 20 people a day — or the equivalent of “over 7,000 people every year” — are […]
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Senator Warren Is Demonstrating How to Make Capitalism Work
She is playing to the same strength that led her to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Geek Squad: The GOP Sends Its Weakest Against Warren
Look, I know Republicans have never been big on cleverness or wit, but certainly they could do better than this…word that rhymes with wit. Get a load of this hopelessly lame, hideously corny ad now contaminating television screens in Massachusetts, paid for by one of the junior-varsity GOPers running to win the September 4 Republican […]
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Living in the Past: What Candidates Believed in College Isn’t Relevant Today
What, exactly, is gained by digging through the garbage can of the past? Aren’t people allowed to grow and learn?
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This is What You Call “Assuming the Voters Are Idiots”
Every time a Republican claims to be “centrist,” he or she is attempting to pull off a con.
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Exiled by Main Street: Will Republican Voter Self-Suppression Manifest Itself in 2020?
Unlike his affair with Stormy Daniels, he may not get lucky again. A year ago, Bernard L. Fraga, Brian Schaffner, Jesse Rhodes and Sean McElwee observed in the Washington Post that “[W]hat’s clear is that the jump in white turnout in key swing states and drop in black turnout [in the 2016 presidential election] may […]
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Hey, Wasn’t Trump Supposed to Stop This?
So much for those “America first” economic policies, eh? There’s usually no turning back once a factory closure is announced. That didn’t stop Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Markey from trying, after Philips Lighting recently decided to shut down manufacturing operations in Fall River. Philips plans to eliminate about 160 production and product development jobs in […]
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One Democratic Consultant’s Fee: Thirty Pieces of Silver
To quote the renowned Scottish philosopher Gerry Rafferty, I’m trying to make some sense of it all, but I see it makes no sense at all: [Massachusetts] GOP U.S. Senate candidate John Kingston quietly hired Democratic consultant and former Gov. Deval Patrick adviser Ron Bell to woo voters in “urban areas” — even as the […]
