May

1

MA Special Election for US Senate

May 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment

OK, politics fans, it’s long-time US Rep. Ed Markey for the Dems against venture-capitalist Gabriel Gomez for the GOP. They won the MA special-election primary to replace US Sen. John Kerry.
We did drift into the First Suffolk MA Senate (squeaker win by Linda Dorcena Forry over Nick Collins). Unlike the Markey/Gomez contest, she should […]

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Mar

19

Some Good, Some Nasty Podcast

March 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment

We careered from one issue to the next to another today in a recap of trends and events. For the promised links:

ABC and WaPo released a large poll revealing the solid majorities across demographics in support of same-sex marriage
The Republican National Committee claimed to detail what they learned from losing the last election (and 5 […]

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Mar

12

GOP Stumbling Toward Senate Podcast

March 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Let’s coin Latin. Instead of requiescat in pace, make that requiescat in auris — Rest among gold coins. Our do little, short timer US Senator Scott Brown finished goofing up his political future.
We also examined the moderately crowded race for John Kerry’s vacant seat. Three ho-hum and differently flawed Republicans go into their primary. […]

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Feb

5

MA GOP Flunks Podcast

February 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment

We got to solve the MA GOP’s candidate problems. They’re welcome.
We kicked around the panicked exodus of likely US Senate contenders to run against the Dem winner among US Reps Markey and Lynch. We covered the muddled election of their new party chair and the egocentric betrayal of failed and former pol Scott Brown.
Ryan contends […]

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Jan

30

The New John Kerry Podcast

January 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment

We’d figured on double speculation — interim appointment to very recently ex-Sen. John Kerry and the winner of the special election for his last two years. Our Gov. Deval Patrick beat us out by naming the interim (William “Mo” Cowan) a few hours before the show.
We stuck to who’s likely to run on Dem […]

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Jan

28

Merry Kerry Flurry

January 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment

An annual U.S. Senator election seems to be our thing in MA. We’re about to do it yet again. John Kerry looms as Secretary of State, opening up an interim appointment, followed by a bruising battle to fill the rest of his term (through 2015).
We’ll join the speculatiion on who’s in or will be for […]