Christy Mihos at UMass Amherst
His independent candidacy is necessary, he said, because both the GOP and Democrats are “bought and paid for by special interests” and “there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the parties”....
View ArticlePredict the primary! Win a T-shirt!
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...
View ArticleMA-Gov: Grace Ross appearance at UMass Amherst
The biggest issue is the size and composition of the state budget. She says that people will willingly pay more taxes for more services, but their current anger at paying the same taxes for fewer...
View ArticleMeanwhile in NH-02…
Since we have ten Democratic US representatives in safe seats, a Massachusetts Democrat who wants to influence control of the US House has to look elsewhere. With the fundrasing reporting deadline...
View ArticleAn opponent for Olver?
I just met a fellow at the veteranarian’s office in Amherst with two bumper stickers on his truck: “Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam” and “Bill Szych for Congress”. I asked him about the latter and found...
View ArticleNH-02 Update
With a fundraising reporting deadline coming up on August 23, I wanted to fill BMG readers in on the Congressional race in NH-02, where Democrat Paul Hodes is attempting to knock off Charlie “Catch and...
View ArticleUS House: What You Can Do
If we in Massachusetts want to affect the composition of the US House, we will have to do it in other states. I’ve blogged here about Paul Hodes’ race in NH-02 — the best overall source for...
View ArticleGame On in GC-08: Vickery vs. Merrigan
Among the few contested offices in the 19 September Democratic primary here out west is the eighth Governor’s Council seat, where Thomas Merrigan of Greenfield is challenging incumbent Peter Vickery of...
View ArticleCongressional Quarterly on NH-02
Via Kos, here is a Congressional Quarterly article on the Hodes-Bass matchup in NH-02. It’s a neutral look that concludes that Hodes has a shot based on relative money and the district makeup, even...
View ArticleKudos to alexwill: Primary Prediction Results
In June I posted this diary where I asked for predictions on the Democratic primary. (I offered a T-shirt to the winner if I got 20 or more entries — in the event I got eight in June and one just last...
View ArticlePredict the General: Win a T-Shirt!
Here is my second prediction contest — predict the percentage of the vote for each of the four candidates for governor in the general election. As in the primary contest, your goal is to minimize the...
View ArticleNH-02: Bass Busted
[Posted with email permission from Ms. Akers — full text is otherwise behind Roll Call’s subscription barrier. She also gave permission for Raw Story to reprint it.] Phony Blogger Busted September 25,...
View ArticlePredict the General: Win a T-Shirt! (repost)
Contestant Healey Mihos Patrick Ross davemb (Sept) 34 10 52 4 rollbiz (Sept) 41 11 46 2 TeaJay (Sept) 39 14 45 2 ShillelaghLaw (Sept) 45 5 49 1 Peter Porcupine 48 5 46 1 pablo 36 13 50 1...
View ArticleDeval article in The American Prospect
Here’s a nice article on The American Prospect‘s web site about Deval. Historian Jason Sokol of Cornell writes about the inspirational effect of the campaign and how Healey’s racist ads extend...
View ArticleA Last Push for Out-Of-State Giving
If our gifts to out-of-state campaigns are going to make a difference, they have to be counted while decisions about spending are still being made. The Netroots combined page on ActBlue is making its...
View ArticleAmherst TM Votes to Bell the Cat
[the ADTC announcement continues:] If one may judge by their public comments, some of the 25 opposing the resolution in fact supported impeachment. They were apparently troubled, however, by Town...
View ArticleOMFG! New UNH Polls for NH-01, NH-02
NH-01: Bradley 47, Shea-Porter 42 NH-02: Hodes 45, Bass 37 Full press release (PDF) here. “Historically, an incumbent with less than 50% of the vote in polls just before an election is likely to lose.”...
View ArticleWTF is Up With UMass?
The “Andy Card controversy” on the UMass Amherst campus has suddenly been displaced by system President Jack Wilson’s announcement of several high-level personnel shifts and a “trial run” of a plan to...
View ArticleTranscript of UMass meeting last week
The Amherst Bulletin has posted a transcript of last Thursday’s UMass Amherst Faculty Senate discussion of President Wilson’s announced personnel changes and reorganization. This includes skeptical...
View ArticleJohn Edwards in Keene
[cross-posted at MyDD] I finally got to see John Edwards in person at today’s community meeting in Keene. The audience of about 300 people were serious people — they looked to me like undecided or...
View ArticleFear and Loathing in the Great and General Court
The Globe has two stories today on the MA house: First, Frank Phillips reports that sharks are circling in advance of DiMasi’s possible departure, and the clearest heir apparent, John Rogers...
View ArticleJRE closes in Keene
I particularly liked JRE’s responses to the three questions. The first was about China, where he vowed to be tougher on trade, safety regulation of imports, environmental and labor standards in trade...
View ArticleI’ve been robopolled!
A machine from WBZ-TV phoned me this evening and asked me a minute’s worth of questions for a story to run soon, keyed apparently to Gov. Patrick’s big speech on the economy. The questions and my...
View ArticleA UMass student in the House?
The Daily Collegian, UMass Amherst’s student-run paper, reports that UMass senior political science major Matt Giancola will enter the Democratic primary for the 4th Middlesex state rep seat now held...
View ArticlePolitics in the Pulpit
[cross-posted to MyDD] My Unitarian Univeralist congregation, the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, has lay-led services over the summer since we largely give the minister the summer off....
View ArticleRobopolled Again! (Rasmussen)
I just answered a robopoll from Rasmussen, asking who I would vote for in the presidential and MA-Sen, how sure I was of my vote, and my favorable/unfavorable rating of those four candidates. Then...
View ArticleNH Update: Join the Hordes, Buy a Lawn Sign!
Two weeks ago I did my first canvass for Obama in Keene, NH. Today when I showed up at 10:00 there were at least 50 and perhaps 100 volunteer canvassers! This gave the campaign the capacity to get...
View ArticleShould I cover over my Patrick sticker?
Some background first. Faculty and staff at UMass get no raises except through new contracts, which normally come every three years. If the state doesn’t want to pay raises, they can simply stall...
View ArticleSheila Bair at UMass
The most interesting question, I thought, was from a woman who asked why Bair acted competently and effectively in the crisis when the rest of the Bush financial leadership did not. Bair didn’t really...
View ArticleIRV Senate Poll
Various good-government types are circulating a petition to establish Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV) in Massachusetts elections. In IRV, voters rank all candidates and their vote is cast for their...
View ArticleLive near Keene? Want a Democratic Congress?
Two years ago, one way I could tell something remarkable was happening was the literally hundreds of volunteers, many from out of state like me, that converged on Keene NH every Saturday to canvass for...
View ArticleA Children’s Book Featuring Our Ex-Gov
Or at least featuring someone named “Mitt” who shares one of his unfortunate pet-care practices: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/hey-mitt-dogs-dont-go-there
View ArticleRobo-Poll for a Cruise?
I took a strange robotic phone call yesterday (Super Tuesday) when I happened to be at home in the mid-morning. The robotic voice said it was doing a public opinion poll, and that I would win a cruise...
View ArticleIt’s Canvass Season Again in NH!
Today I did my first canvassing of the fall in Chesterfield NH, for President Obama, NH-01 US House candidate Annie Kuster, state senator Molly Kelly, and the four Democrats running for the NH House in...
View ArticleSo how about the State Senate race?
My daughter the grad student is a new resident of Dorchester and plans to vote in the Democratic primary on 30 April. Knowing that I read BMG, she asked what I have heard about the race, and I had to...
View ArticleSo My Daughter Has Another Election
She lives in the district that Marty Walsh vacated to become mayor. Any opinions on the candidates? I see the diary saying that Hunt has raised a lot of money from lobbyists. He also has endorsements...
View ArticleBMG’s Mark Bail in the news
The Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton) reports on frequent BMG poster Mark Bail’s plans for his third term on the Granby Select Board. (The reporter, Eric Goldscheider, has also posted to BMG in...
View ArticleCanvassing has started in NH
I wanted to make this a comment on the Ayotte post now on the front page, but there is some kind of bug preventing that. We live in Amherst MA, and my wife was invited by email to canvass in Winchester...
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