A helpful reader has informed BMG that today's Rasmussen poll's favorability ratings are surprisingly, well, favorable for Governor Patrick. And surprisingly weak for Charlie … [Read more...]
Rasmussen: Patrick retains his lead
Rasmussen has a new poll out, apparently taken Saturday night after the president's visit. Bottom line: Patrick's lead remains intact. This poll therefore supports what Suffolk said last week, and severely undermines the … [Read more...]
Rut roh! Howie writes the column he always writes when he gives up
Howie Carr had a sad little column in today's Herald. This is the nightmare: It's the morning of Nov. 3, the day after the election. You awaken to a Republican sweep from coast to coast. Everywhere but here, in Massachusetts, a tiny island … [Read more...]
MA GOP’s lame ad and James Taylor’s copyright: upon further analysis, it’s still not “fair use”
"Parody" that uses copyrighted material can, under some circumstances, constitute "fair use." Here's the Supreme Court outlining this general principle in the famous 2 Live Crew case, known formally as Campbell v. Acuff Rose Music, … [Read more...]
MA GOP’s painfully lame ad may also violate copyright
So the MA GOP has a new web ad that's supposed to be this big attack on Deval. It's painfully lame. But it also may violate the copyright laws. Here's the ad. Can you identify the singer? That's right - that's James … [Read more...]
“When you’re debating the polls, you’re losing”
The words in the title are not mine, actually. They are the words of the wingnuttiest of them all, WTKK's Michael Graham, who really, really doesn't want Deval Patrick to win. But of course he's right - in fact, he wrote that post in … [Read more...]
New Suffolk poll: Loscocco-gate bad news for Baker as his unfavorable ratings soar
Charley beat me to the punch, but I want to elaborate a bit on the new Suffolk poll, which is impossible to see as anything but very good news for Governor Patrick. As Charley has reported, the horserace numbers are good: at 7 points, … [Read more...]
Taking stock of today’s developments in Loscocco-gate [updated]
Loscocco is finished as any sort of political player. He's shown himself to be a treacherous, opportunistic loser who, after being rebuffed by Baker and signing on with Cahill instead, then invented a reason to desert the Cahill … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Emails appear to show collusion between Cahill campaign and lottery
More from the fine Twitter reporting of Adam Reilly and David Bernstein: both are saying that evidence now being produced in court strongly suggests that the Cahill campaign was in contact with the lottery. Which would be a … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Judge orders partial injunction against Cahill’s ex-consultants
This just in, via Adam Reilly's and David Bernstein's real-time reporting on Twitter: the judge hearing Tim Cahill's lawsuit against his treacherous ex-consultants, has just ordered the continuation of an injunction against Weaver, Yob, and … [Read more...]
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