This is a fascinating development, and is yet another reason why our MA-Sen race is the best one in the country this year.  There's a battle of the press releases going on as to whose idea it was and who was dragged kicking and screaming … [Read more...]

Team Brown is looking a little shaky as it launches itself out of the starting blocks.  Check out this gem, noted by alert BMGer dougdavidoff.  Here's part of Brown's kickoff speech: "They’ll try again and again to talk about something … [Read more...]

Scott Brown talked to the Lowell Sun's editorial board yesterday.  He'll no doubt get the Sun's endorsement, but that was a given anyway, and the interview may well have done him more harm than good.  Just check this out. Brown also took … [Read more...]

Two years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down what has quickly become one of its most controversial decisions: Citizens United v. FEC, which went a long way toward wiping out Congress's ability to regulate corporate spending in … [Read more...]

Imagine if you will: Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina tomorrow by 5 points over Romney (could well happen).  Ron Paul comes in third, as usual, and Rick Santorum is a disappointing fourth.  Following that, Santorum, who is out of money and … [Read more...]

Remember how two years ago, Scott Brown held a rally at Mechanics Hall in Worcester and everyone showed up?  Curt Schilling was there, and Doug Flutie, and 3,200 other supporters?  For the record, there was a capacity crowd of 2,200 in the … [Read more...]

Here's a weird one. The Boston Herald pretty much hearts Mitt Romney - after all, it offered a full-throated endorsement of his candidacy right before the Iowa caucuses. And the Globe has never shown Romney much love, seeing as how it … [Read more...]

The SuperPAC that Stephen Colbert created and then handed off to Jon Stewart (so that Colbert could run for the presidency of the United States of South Carolina) continues to make political waves. Yesterday, Colbert interviewed the … [Read more...]

If you haven't yet heard, or checked out the updated graphic a little ways down this page, let me be the one to break the good news: Elizabeth Warren raised over a million dollars in yesterday's "money bomb," which was timed to coincide … [Read more...]