If you’re not sure about your polling place, look it up here. As Senator Elizabeth Warren points out, turnout in special elections is expected to be very low. From the Boston Globe: … Secretary of State William F. Galvin predicted Monday that 1.6 million voters – a record low in a Massachusetts Senate race – …
Election 2018
The Mass Senate Race: “Mini-Mitt”, Major Bro-hole
Via Dave Weigel, Real Clear Politics just lurves the GOP’s new bro-mancer: WATERTOWN, Mass. — Behind in the polls in a solidly Democratic state, heavily underfunded against a formidable opponent, and suffering from a barrage of attacks over a questionable tax break he once received, Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez nonetheless brims with a preternatural …
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch Can’t Quite Overcome the SC Teahadi
Dave Weigel’s been in South Carolina since last week, covering the election Democrats never really expected to win: UPDATE, 8:23 p.m.: Well, it’s basically over. Beaufort County, the Sanford soft spot, went for him by a 6-point margin—2,152 votes. Charleston County is tied, when Colbert Busch needs to be winning it. So, basically: Mark Sanford …
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Ed Markey for U.S. Senate
. Ed Markey’s website is here. You can sign up to volunteer here, or to donate here. (Yeah, a dedicated ActBlue page would be nice, but I don’t have the skills to make one.) The special election is less than two months away, June 25th. Markey’s been the Representative for my district since 1976, and …
And Now The Next Task
So — we know what’s coming up next in Massachusetts: Ed Markey vs. Gabriel Gomez. Markey’s a 36 year veteran in the House; Gomez is an alledgedly “pure” non politician with all the attributes the national Republican Party wants to see — Latino, a former Seal, private-equity “job creating” vampire. We’ve seen how this can …
Open Thread: Massachusetts Senate Race Update
. As Dave Weigel points out, “at the time, everybody thought” Steve Lynch voted against the Affordable Care Act because his personal base is urban blue-collar religious Democrats, and he didn’t want to give future opponents the chance to paint him as a baby-killer. But now Lynch, running for national office at a severe name&fame …
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It’s The Best We Got
After yesterday’s post on Ashley Judd, Alison Lundergan Grimes, and Mitch The Turtle’s seat up for election in 2014, I feel I owe you guys some background. I live in northern Kentucky, just across the river from Cincy. KY-4 is depressingly red. My Congressman, Thomas Massie, is an extremely intelligent, MIT-educated, award-winning engineer. This means …