Grab your popcorn, turn on MSNBC, and let's watch Steve Kornacki map out tonight's primary returns. Primaries are being held in Virginia, South Carolina, North Dakota,Nevada, and Maine. First results are expected: Virginia: 7:11 p.m. … [Read more...]
Time to rethink the Democratic State Convention
Today's Democratic State Convention was a disappointment, and it's not the first time. After spending the better part of a February Saturday getting elected, and a June Saturday inside the DCU center, I have to say we need to start thinking … [Read more...]
The Arlington Test: Tingle v. Palfrey
The OCPF website is a wonderful thing. It's a searchable database, and with a couple of quick entries you can find out who your neighbors love well enough to send money. So, when I checked Quentin Palfrey's contributions from Arlington, … [Read more...]
Trump Goes to College: The 2020 electoral map!
Thanks to Gallup, we now have a state-by-state map of Trump's approval ratings for 2017. Sort of what you expect when you have a Republican president with an approval rating in the 30s. Take the 2018 results and adjust for the … [Read more...]
The great political surprise of 2018 (Prediction Thread)
According to Newt Gingrich on Fox News: The great political surprise of 2018 will be the size of the Republican victory. After members of the elite media have spent two years savaging President Trump, lying about Republican legislation, … [Read more...]
Malden Ward 3: It Gets Worse
On Halloween, I posted a scary little story about a boatload of out-of-state charter school money flooding into a school committee race in Ward 3 in Malden. (For perspective, let's remember that Ward 3 has 4,353 registered voters.) It … [Read more...]
Big Money for a Rather Small Election in Malden
Ward 3 in Malden has 4,353 registered voters. In the 2015 municipal election, 1,282 folks in Ward 3 came to the polls to vote for mayor, city council, and school committee. In the 2017 preliminary election, 737 folks in Ward 3 came to … [Read more...]
Gun Law State Scorecard
Las Vegas is a tourist destination, and we are finding that victims of the recent shooting traveled to this event from all over the continent. Nobody was thinking about it at the time, but we have thousands of tourists being targeted in … [Read more...]
No Place for Jackie Robinson or Sam Jethroe
On April 16, 1945, Jackie Robinson was among three Negro League stars who "tried out" for the Red Sox at Fenway Park. We don't know for sure if it was Tom Yawkey, or someone else in the front office, or anyone at all yelled the disgusting … [Read more...]
Maura: Do you have the juice to stop these shocking robocalls?
Two, three, four, five times each day I get the same robocall, cell phone and land line. Here's the text of the message. Permanently reducing your electric bill up to 60% through the US renewable energy program. The US renewable energy … [Read more...]
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