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MA-Sen election results, in pretty picture form

May 2, 2013 By David

Via the Daily Kos Elections blog, here are the results of Tuesday's Democratic primary.  Interesting stuff.  Click for a larger image.  And see also fenway49's thoughtful post on the same subject. Here's Daily Kos's narrative on how … [Read more...]

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Polling works, newspaper endorsements don’t, and other lessons from yesterday

May 1, 2013 By David

So the epic primary battles of 2013 are over.  What did we learn? Newspaper endorsements don't mean sh!t.  Everyone pretty much knew this already, but wow - what an emphatic demonstration we got yesterday.  Republican Dan Winslow … [Read more...]

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Meanwhile, confusion reigns in the 1st Suffolk race – UPDATE: it appears that Dorcena Forry has won, but no concession yet from Collins

April 30, 2013 By David

The results on both sides of the Senate race seem pretty clear.  Not so, unfortunately, in the hotly-contested 1st Suffolk state Senate race.  As of now, AP has declared Nick Collins the winner (they show him with a 190 vote lead out of … [Read more...]

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AP: IT’S GOMEZ VS. MARKEY ON 6/25 (was PRIMARY DAY) – open thread

April 30, 2013 By David

What did you see at your polling place?  What's the word on the street?  Inquiring minds want to know... UPDATE (Charley): Well, I was definitely not expecting Gomez to clean up like he did. This should tell us that we need to be on our … [Read more...]

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Elected official in PA satirically declares that Boston “agreed to surrender” to terrorists

April 25, 2013 By David

Scott Ott is an elected County Commissioner in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.  He is also the proprietor of Scrappleface, a satirical blog that has gained some popularity with the right-wingnuttosphere.  (I inquired of Mr. Ott's campaign … [Read more...]

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Why didn’t the FBI immediately recognize Tamerlan Tsarnaev?

April 22, 2013 By David

Posts and comments by BMGers petr, kbusch, and, yes, Ernie Boch III have posed important questions about the conduct of the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, including how it was that the 19-year-old Dzhokhar was able to hide out in a boat … [Read more...]

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Globe: MIT police officer killed; one possible Marathon suspect captured; other at large in Watertown

April 19, 2013 By David

In a bizarre and newly tragic series of events, one MIT police officer reportedly has been shot to death tonight, after which there was apparently a carjacking, a car chase into Watertown, a shootout, another officer injured, one suspect - … [Read more...]

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“O’er the rampahts we watched”: a great moment from last night’s Bruins game

April 18, 2013 By David

Awesome. … [Read more...]

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Nobody knows what to believe

April 17, 2013 By David

Just to give you a sense of how confused the reporting over the arrest/non-arrest of a Marathon suspect is right now, check out the front page of boston.com, which shows (a) the Globe saying that its sources say a suspect is in custody and … [Read more...]

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Military tribunal? No thanks.

April 17, 2013 By David

Reports are flooding in that a possible suspect in the Marathon bombings has been identified, apparently from security video shot from Lord & Taylor, and that an arrest is imminent or may in fact have already been made.  First things … [Read more...]

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