Ok, time to put up or shut up. As long as I get at least 20 Democratic governor's predictions on this thread, I will mail the winner a T-shirt saying "I Won the Blue Mass Group 2006 Primary Prediction Challenge". Please be … [Read more...]
Now What? Lessons From 2002?
Math MCAS #2. What lessons can be derived from 2002 Democratic primary poll data? June 23 Herald PollO'Brien 31 %Reich 19 %;Birmingham 12 %Grossman 6 %Tolman 3 %Undecided 28 % September 10 Herald PollO'Brien 28 %Reich 28 … [Read more...]
Convention wrap-up
First of all, congratulations to all the candidates, all of whom got onto the September ballot -- including, by a squeaker, Chris Gabrieli. Congrats especially to Deval Patrick, Tim Murray, and Bill Galvin, the convention-endorsed … [Read more...]
A few quick thoughts from the Democratic convention
So here I am in the "press room" outside the main hall at Worcester's DCU Center. We just heard the three candidates for Governor speak, and Charley has a nice live-blog of those speeches. I pretty much agree with his take - … [Read more...]
Saturday liveblogging the convention
Deb Goldberg speaking: time to get Massachusetts moving again! Yay!*Health care: insurance co. price gouging.*Pay teachers what they deserve. (What do they deserve?)*Cities and towns have been ignored.*Her family grew supermarket chain, … [Read more...]
Changing Politics – the next 48 Hours
For that reason, I appreciate that this forum allows me an opportunity to state clearly a few points regarding the official position of the Deval Patrick campaign on matters of importance to convention attendees and observers and to … [Read more...]
My final statement on 15% before the convention
OK, it's crunch time for the candidates to reel in their delegates, and obviously the campaigns are a bit on edge. For my own sake, I'll just clarify my thoughts on the whole thing: As we've said any number of times, the 15% rule is … [Read more...]
Scot Lehigh: What You “Should” Want From Convention
MCAS Short Answer Section1. Read the following passageScot Lehigh writes in today's Globe:Here's what the far-sighted among you should be hoping for at tomorrow's convention: candidates who refuse to tell you exactly what you want to hear; … [Read more...]
News from the campaigns
With the convention rapidly approaching, the Gov and LtGov campaigns are firing off press releases faster than anyone can keep up with them. A couple of recent highlights:Deval Patrick has broken the one-month record for fundraising … [Read more...]
Deval’s stocks and glass houses
As I said recently, "Bringing up people's stock investments sounds like wandering into a whole neighborhood of glass houses." And it turns out that Deval Patrick recently sold some tobacco stocks, pretty small amounts: $3200 of Altria (the … [Read more...]
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