FURTHER UPDATE: PPP's details are out.  They tweeted the wrong topline earlier: it's Warren up 50-44 (not 51-45).  Still a 6 point edge.  The poll was taken Oct 9-11, so after Obama's awful debate performance, and also after the first two … [Read more...]

Well this is a very odd development indeed.  Mother Jones, whose 47% blockbuster surely has already won the prize for most awesome video of the cycle, has gotten its hands on this truly weird conversation between Scott Brown and some … [Read more...]

*sigh* US Senator Scott Brown has regained a lead over Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren in a new WBUR-Mass Inc. poll, after a string of polls showed Warren with the lead.... The telephone poll of 502 likely voters, taken Oct. 5 … [Read more...]

Remember Brad Garnett?  He's the classy fellow in the gray hoodie and backwards baseball cap who is among the most enthusiastic of the "war whoopers" and "tomahawk choppers" that made national news after BMG posted a video of them a couple … [Read more...]

Pretty good shot from Governor Deval Patrick, who dubbed Scott Brown a "Bay State Birther" in light of Brown's obsession with Elizabeth Warren's heritage. This shouldn't come as a big surprise - for years, Brown has exhibited a certain … [Read more...]

An interesting development in the Senate race, via a release that just landed in my inbox: members of the International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers Local #6, headquartered in Dorchester, will protest … [Read more...]

Well, that's pretty good news.  The jobs number is good, if not spectacular.  And importantly from a political perspective at least, the unemployment rate has dipped below 8% for the first time since President Obama's first full month in … [Read more...]

It's a 1-minute radio ad ... and I have to say that I kind of wish it were in Warren's voice rather than an announcer's.  But I'm sure there are reasons for these things that are beyond my ken.  Anyway, here it is. Some of the text … [Read more...]