Finally, it’s time to vote. But there’s a full day left to wait for results. In the meantime, here are three dominant political themes for the days ahead. (more)
WASHINGTON – Edward M. Kennedy may have died of brain cancer last year, but that has not softened Jimmy Carter’s assessment of his rival for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. (more)
Nearly one year after Edward M. Kennedy’s death, prominent Democrats in Washington and Massachusetts are promoting his widow as the party’s best shot at winning back the Senate seat he held for nearly five decades. (more)
The road to a Republican congressional majority may not run through New England, but GOP officials expect to make at least a few inroads this fall in a region where they suffered heavy losses in recent election cycles. (more)
NEW YORK – After the violent deaths of his brothers, the youngest Kennedy, Teddy, lived under constant threat that he too would meet an assassin’s bullet. As he put it bluntly, “They’re going to shoot my ass off the way they shot off Bobby’s.” (more)
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry said today the Obama administration may render its verdict on a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod this week, and he will support it if Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar gives his approval. (more)
The Boston Herald reports that former Sen. Ted Kennedy (God rest his kleptocratic soul) will have a museum erected in his honor and the good people of Taxachusetts will pay for it: (more)
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Democratic state Sen. Ted Deutch on Tuesday handily won the first U.S. House race since Congress passed President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul. (more)
You spend your whole life working your tushus off, saving, investing, climbing that corporate ladder with a bloody knife betwixt your teeth, and then you wonder, Have I made it? Well, this is what making it looks like: (more)
Republicans, on the mend as the opposition but lacking a unifying leader, yearn for Ronald Reagan. Two decades after leaving office he is nostalgically remembered by many Americans as a reassuring leader who stayed the course at home and abroad and left our country happier and stronger than he found it. Even on the left, which savaged him when he was president, Reagan has won retrospective praise for producing the first-ever treaty to reduce U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals and ending the Cold War. (more)
Massachusetts Senator-Elect Scott Brown said Tuesday he is eager to sit down with President Barack Obama to discuss the message in last week’s special election in which he upset the Democrats and claimed the seat held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. (more)
Barack Obama was inaugurated as president one year ago Wednesday to the hosannas of the mainstream media. He strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue hand-in-hand with his wife Michelle, exuding the confidence of a man basking in sky-high poll numbers that approached 70 percent. What a difference a year makes. (more)
On Monday, an Irish bookie paid off bettors who had wagered that state Sen. Scott Brown, a conservative Republican, would win the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat held for nearly 50 years by liberal Democratic icon Edward M. Kennedy. (more)
A poll released a day before the special Senate race shows Senator Scott Brown surging to a double-digit lead over Attorney General Martha Coakley in the race for the open Massachusetts Senate seat. (more)
The first signs of abandonment from within Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid‘s own party emerged Sunday, as some Democrats said his racially charged comments about President Obama have placed his already perilous reelection prospects on the precipice. (more)























