Well, it was speculated; he played Hamlet for a while, wondering if it was a tax or an assessment; was it animal, vegetable, or mineral, golly gosh ...Well, now Romney is going to use a futile, symbolic line-item veto against the $295 per … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick’s Internet Buy
Internet ads have the advantage of being trackable and having the possibility of immediate response (click-through). Sure, a conversion rate of 0.5% doesn't sound great, but internet ads cost about the same per eyeball as TV. To run one 30 … [Read more...]
Weekly traffic report
Sorry this is a couple of days late! Generally, the news continues to be good - we've been consistently seeing 1,000-1,500 unique visitors each weekday for the last several weeks. … [Read more...]
Chris Gabrieli: a battle-tested policy wonk joins the Governor’s race (with poll!)
Gabrieli started with a short summary of what he hopes to see the next Governor accomplish, and why he thinks that person ought to be him. On the first question, he sees Massachusetts as dramatically under-performing - as one example, … [Read more...]
Remembering Ray Dooley
Ray Dooley, architect of Ray Flynn's longshot win for Mayor of Boston, chief of staff to Congressman Joe Kennedy and friend to a lot of those of us who love politics and policy passed away yesterday of pancreatic cancer. He was … [Read more...]
Kick out illegal immigrants? It’s the economy, stupid!
Itâs easy to say letâs kick them all out, but let's talk about what that would really mean. $970 billion in goods and services would stop being produced, $7 billion dollars in social security and $1.5 billion in Medicare contributions … [Read more...]
Income tax rollback: Are the operatives right?
So far none of the Democratic candidates favor my tax position, which is to neither raise nor cut taxes (and all you Deval folks who dispute the notion that he has not advocated new taxes are just wrong). In reading BCDâs post (that … [Read more...]
USA: Isolationist or Interventionist
Michael Barone, a Fox News commentator and US News writer, argued in US News a few months ago that the Iraq attack was just the latest installment in an aggressive, expansionist, national history full of war. I personally largely agree with … [Read more...]
Kuttner on health care
This was in Saturday's Globe, now also on The American Prospect's page:Is the new Massachusetts new health plan really a model for reform nationally? Advocates of universal health coverage feel they finally have their nose under the … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick’s campaign cranks up internet operation
AP reports on the first significant advertising buy of the 2006 Governor's race: Deval Patrick's purchase of $50,000-$100,000 of internet advertising. The ads are slated to appear on sites like boston.com and cnn.com, as well as blogs … [Read more...]