Tell most socialists – actual socialists — that they seem a lot like Tea Partiers and the reaction is a visceral denial. Say the same thing about socialists to most Tea Partiers and, sure enough, the reaction is identical. (more)
With the respected, nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifting Barney Frank’s Massachusetts district from “solid” Democratic to “likely” Democratic and what appears to be the increasing momentum of his Republican challenger Sean Bielat, the National Republican Congressional Committee may be putting its money into the race. (more)
As in the House and Senate, Republicans are poised to make large gains in the dozens of campaigns for governor on Nov. 2. According to polls, Republicans are likely to hold the governorships in 27 states, Democrats in 16. Seven other races are up for grabs. Democrats currently hold a 26-24 edge. (more)
Six months ago, few Republican strategists could pick Ryan Frazier, Jeff Perry, Austin Scott or Randy Demmer out of a crowd. Today, that quartet of candidates is part of a small group of challengers who national Republicans think could be the deciding force in whether the party will win back the House majority on Nov. 2. (more)
Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, suddenly wants his constituents to know he cares what they think. (more)
With the general election less than a month away and the Democrats reeling from one bad poll after another, the time is ripe for them to spring an “October surprise” in an attempt to shift the odds in their favor. This time, however, the surprise might be on them, judging from the surging candidacies of two GOP hopefuls engaged in races against two of the House’s most entrenched incumbents, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House majority leader. (more)
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has notified customers that it will drop its Medicare Advantage health insurance program at the end of the year, forcing 22,000 senior citizens in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine to seek alternative supplemental coverage. (more)
Two years ago Edward Dooley called himself a “Kennedy-worshiping, stereotypical Massachusetts liberal.” (more)
WORCESTER, Mass. – It was not as big a draw as the playground or the hot dog truck, but the drug collection program at a busy downtown park here on Saturday still netted a few hundred bottles of prescription pills as part of a broader one-day effort to clean out the nation’s medicine cabinets. (more)
The games over the weekend didn’t have the buildup of those on Sept. 11. (more)
A Massachusetts school district has apologized to parents after a group of schoolchildren participated in midday Muslim prayers during a field trip to a Boston-area mosque. (more)
New Hampshire is the state with the highest median income in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s report on income, poverty and health insurance. (more)
The wealthiest members of Congress grew richer in 2009 even as the economy struggled to recover from a deep recession. (more)
WASHINGTON – Sarah Palin said yesterday that while Massachusetts may “put up with” Senator Scott Brown, the conservatives in her home state of Alaska “wouldn’t stand for” him. (more)
Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick may well be the least popular governor in the United States. (more)
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Standing alongside the 13th green at the Vineyard Golf Club on Martha’s Vineyard, Jeff Carlson spotted a small broadleaf weed between his feet. As the superintendent charged with maintaining the club grounds, he instinctively bent to pluck it, then stopped. (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)
Rachel Maddow is moving on up – and downtown. (more)
Patricia Neal, the molasses-voiced actress who won an Academy Award and a Tony but whose life alternated surreally between triumph and tragedy, died at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Sunday. She was 84 and lived in Manhattan and Martha’s Vineyard. (more)
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