Wonder if advertisers will pull out from BIG LOSER talk radio stations, Entercom's WRKO and its Jock/Pol WEEI and Greater Media's WTKK? Tom Finneran, Todd Feinburg, Charlie Manning and Howie Carr on WRKO and their jock/bigot counterparts … [Read more...]
Archives for November 3, 2010
Tom Reilly – A Loser Again
Tom Reilly must be gagging on sour grapes. Reilly thought he would be the annointed Democratic candidate for governor four years ago only to be trounced by Deval Patrick. This year he sought to seek political revenge by endorsing Charlie … [Read more...]
Sorry, only one Tsunami per customer
Lesson. These votes to punish incumbents, to punish Democrats, have been cast. The Democrats have been punished. No sense doing that again. In fact, the reality is that voters are going to be looking at some wacky … [Read more...]
Meanwhile…
After posting about 2012 I realized there's one more piece of political business to tie up this year's loose ends, namely party leadership in the Congress. Whom do you all like for leaders? For a while I was saying it might be OK for … [Read more...]
Who Knew? Kloechner did!
As I reviewed Tyler O'Day's Open Thread Post calling for election predictions, in order to confirm my superior prognostication skills (I had the Governor's race at 49-42-8-1), I noticed an uncannily accurate cluster of predictions submitted … [Read more...]
Yesterday’s interesting election results
We all know last night's big results in Massachusetts: a Democratic sweep with extra Democratic. Others, like Charley and David, have extrapolated a lot of the wisdom we can learn from it -- the strategies we should take, the respect John … [Read more...]
Kudos & Credit to Kate Donoghue, Sydney Asbury, Clare Kelly, John Walsh and a cast of thousands
The best article I have seen, to date, is by David Bernstein in the Phoenix and I think he gives credit where credit is due. Of course, I think that because Bernstein credits 20% of the votes for Gov. Patrick to BMG's own Kate Donoghue. … [Read more...]
Massachusetts: We did what needed to be done, now…
Respectfully, to some posting here, I would argue that it's not just the economy or swing vote, its more like, the stupid - for willful ignorance is a dangerous thing. The majority of the electorate, for apathy or disdain, refuses to … [Read more...]
On to 2012!
STATEWIDE OFFICERS Deval Patrick - pledged to serve full first term and seek re-election, but I don't recall if he pledged to serve full second term. Tim Murray - I've heard a lot of positive talk, but I don't see him and Jim McGovern both … [Read more...]
Barbara L’Italien – Thank you!
Very sad to see that Barbara fell to Jim Lyons. She was a compassionate, smart, and hardworking legislator. Tough year yet she almost pulled it out. Barbara - you legacy in education and autism treatment will be felt for years. … [Read more...]